• Question: What type of people do you work with?

    Asked by Perfect Particles to Angeline, Catherine, Luke, Philip, Shona on 9 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Angeline Burrell

      Angeline Burrell answered on 9 Mar 2015:

      Right now I work with many British-type people. It’s nice to be in a place were I’m not the only one drinking tea!

      There are a lot of different types of people in my research group: sporty types (one woman plays ice hockey and another races up and down mountains), geeky types, and even fashionable types.

    • Photo: Shona Whittam

      Shona Whittam answered on 9 Mar 2015:

      The Radiotherapy department is made of physics staff and treatment radiographers. The radiographers are mostly women but in physics it is a balance of men and women. When I first started all the physicists were older than me, in there 40’s, but now we have a lot of trainee scientists who are in there 20’s.

    • Photo: Catherine Vlahakis

      Catherine Vlahakis answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      The team of astronomers I work with come from all over the world (Japan, UK, USA, France, Spain, Mexico…and of course Chile…to name just a few), and it’s quite cool that our job has brought us all together in Chile! I also work with engineers and technicians here, and they are usually Chilean.

    • Photo: Philip Moriarty

      Philip Moriarty answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      I work with lots of people from right across the world – another great aspect of being a university scientist. Here’s some of the people in the School of Physics & Astronomy where I work: http://www.sixtysymbols.com/pages/scientists1.htm

      (I’ve even worked with a Physics Bear in the past: https://twitter.com/thephysicsbear )

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