“I have to understand the world, you see”
-Feynman

Being curious as a profession? That sounds right up my alley.

I have always found comfort in the logic that is embedded in science. Somewhere along my journey, in between 45-minute classes on why the mitochondrion is the powerhouse of the cell, how CRISPR has revolutionised biotechnology and how the area below a curve can be calculated using just a pen and paper, I fell in love with science.

This page is a little bit of a self-indulgence for me. I try my best to explain key parts of what I have done so far in science.  I started working on this page as I was making the big decision of whether research is something I see myself as a career, so these are milestones I have had so far that are important. These projects and events have taught me how much I love being curious and solving problems by applying logic even when logic is so elusive, how I like having things in order but love chaos at the same time, how there can be great joy found in building a community of researchers who are part of something big and who are trying their best to make the world a better place.

I have a long way to go in my journey as a scientist and am just starting out. My focus has been to gain as much exposure in the field as possible by working at different labs. Understanding how lab environments work and how research has to be done in a manner that answers questions that are useful to the world, that makes full use of the resources, as well as realising the importance of collaborations, has been an incredibly rewarding process.

Overall, I’ve come to love the continuous cycle of proving and disproving that forms the heart of research. I would choose research again and again because I love the person that it makes me.