• Question: if you guys all came together for a project what would be the project and who would be the team leader

    Asked by anon-199630 to Sylvia, Sumit, Martin, Kate, Bryony, Aryanne on 4 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Martin McCoustra

      Martin McCoustra answered on 4 Mar 2019:


      I’ll let the others answer that one…

    • Photo: Kate McGonagle

      Kate McGonagle answered on 4 Mar 2019:


      Oh, this is too difficult to answer! We don’t know each other so I don’t know everyone’s skills and where we would all be best placed. To build a successful team and therefor a successful project we would all have to meet and discuss it. I’m confident we could achieve something epic though if the opportunity arose!

    • Photo: Sylvia Soldatou

      Sylvia Soldatou answered on 4 Mar 2019:


      What an interesting question! Unfortunately I don’t have the answer as I’m meeting the rest of the scientists for the first time. Maybe since we are all involved in this public engagement activity, our project could be related to communicating science

    • Photo: Bryony Hockin

      Bryony Hockin answered on 4 Mar 2019:


      Well, not to be too cheeky, but this chat and answering questions is the first project we’ve ever worked on together, and I think we’re doing a great job! We all work in different subject areas but the one thing we all have in common is our experience and enthusiasm for talking to the public and to students about science. Our team leaders would be the wonderful mods at I’m A Scientist who work hard to make sure the chats run on time!

    • Photo: Sumit Konar

      Sumit Konar answered on 5 Mar 2019:


      We have a fantastic team; one astrochemist, one crystallographer, one makes new antibiotics, one does drug discovery, one works with sunlight, one makes gold nanoparticles.

      A dream project:
      Astrochemist will find out a place outside earth where we all can go to treat aliens; We will make new antibiotics and drugs; and then find the structure using X-ray; Sunlight can be used to clean water where gold nanoparticles can be dispersed; then gold nanoparticles can be used for drug delivery to aliens.

      How do you like project? 🙂 Do you also want to take part with us?

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