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Asked by anon-199755 to Sylvia, Sumit, Martin, Kate, Bryony, Aryanne on 1 Mar 2019.
Question: what was your education path to get to where you are now
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Sylvia Soldatou answered on 1 Mar 2019:
I did my bachelor studies in Chemistry in Greece (where I’m from) and then in my 4th year I realised how much I liked natural products chemistry so I moved to London to do my Master’s. There I was introduced to marine natural products cehmistry and I decided to do a PhD and that’s why I moved to Galway, Ireland. During my PhD I spent almos 2 years in Tampa, Florida as a visiting student to complete some of my experiments. I went back to Ireland to finish my PhD and then I moved to Glasgow where I worked as postdoctoral researcher (this is a job where you do mainly resercah and you can also teach) and when my contract ebded in Glasgow I moved to Aberdeen where I’m also a postdoctoral researcher.
On of the best things about working in academia and in reserach is that you can fnd a job anywhere in the world and most of the times you are encouraged to change universities!
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Bryony Hockin answered on 1 Mar 2019:
Well, it’s a long story, but basically I did a lot of exams, and now they let me play around in a lab and I don’t have to do exams any more. I went to a comprehensive school in my home town in England and did 11 GCSEs; I studied Chemistry, Biology and Physics and Chemistry was my favourite. Then I went to a comprehensive sixth form to do my A-Levels in Chemistry, Maths and Biology. I applied for five universities and didn’t get into my top choice, which was Oxford, but I was actually glad because I got into my second choice which was Durham, and I enjoyed it a lot there. I studied for 4 years in Durham and got a Masters in Chemistry. During my final year I didn’t really know what to do with my life after uni so I applied for lots of jobs (nearly 20 and got rejected from about 18 of them) and also applied for some PhD positions at universities all over the UK. I was accepted to study for a PhD at the University of St Andrews and now here I am, playing around with chemicals (very safely, I should add) in the lab!
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Martin McCoustra answered on 1 Mar 2019:
I went to Larbert High School over in Falkirk and got 5 Highers… Chemistry, Physics, Maths, English and History… and went straight to Heriot-Watt University after that in October 1979. I got my BSc in Chemistry there in 1983 and stayed on to do my PhD which I got in 1987. Spent a few weeks of my PhD working in the Technical University of Munich. I worked as a post-doctoral research assistant at Heriot-Watt for 18 months before, at the ripe old age of 25, I got my Lectureship in Physical Chemistry at UEA in Norwich which I started in April 1988. Moved to The University of Nottingham in 1994 and rose through the ranks there to Professor of Chemical Physics in 2005. I returned to Scotland in 2006 to establish the first chair in Chemical Physics in both Scotland and at Heriot-Watt.
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Sumit Konar answered on 3 Mar 2019:
Primary and Secondary School: A school in Rural village in Westbengal, India
Bachelor in Science in Chemistry: A college in Kolkata, the capital of westbengal, India [I had to compete in the state level]
Master in Science in Chemistry: IIT Madras (one of the leading institutes in India) [I had to take a competitive exam across the country to secure a place in IIT]
Master in Science in Arizona state univeristy, USA [I had to take GRE and TOEFL exam along with one year research project in chemistry]
PhD in Chemistry at Stockhom University, Sweden. [ I was selected as a suitable candidate for the project]
Postdoc at school of chemistry at University of Edinburgh [I was selected as i published in many peer reviewed journals and I had diverse experience in several fields in chemistry, and I had experience of teaching]
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Kate McGonagle answered on 4 Mar 2019:
After finishing school at West Calder High I went to Glasgow University and studied Chemistry with Medicinal Chemistry. I done a Master’s degree with a one year placement in industry so all in all it took 5 years to complete. Then I went on to get my first job which was 6 years ago! I worked at a company in Liverpool looking at cancer targets, then I moved to cancer research UK in Glasgow for a while and then 2 years ago I got the job here at the Drug Discovery Unit in Dundee.
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