• Question: What have you done that your really proud of?

    Asked by anon-314210 on 17 Mar 2022. This question was also asked by anon-322873, anon-322997, anon-322983.
    • Photo: Martha Hilton

      Martha Hilton answered on 17 Mar 2022:

      Finished my PhD! Doing a PhD was really hard at times especially during Covid and lockdown but I managed to finish last year. I think this is my biggest achievement.

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      Daisy Shearer answered on 27 Mar 2022: last edited 27 Mar 2022 11:26 am

      Getting my MPhys degree is the most ‘official’ thing I’m proud of. Linked to this, I’m proud that I’m still doing my PhD (and on track to graduate later this year) despite the pandemic having a big impact on my ability to be in the lab as well as on my mental health.

      I’m also really proud of some of the experiments I’ve done as part of my PhD as well as my equality, diversity, and inclusion work and science communication:

      I advocate for neurodivergent people in STEM (mostly as I’m autistic and want to help others like me with differently wired brains) and have created support groups for this both online and at my university.

      On the science comm side of things, I’m proud of the articles I’ve written such as some I’ve done for ‘Physics World’ and being the physics expert for the Usborne book ‘Physics for Beginners’.

      My social media communication is something that I’m especially proud of, particularly my Instagram page where I have an awesome audience of over 18,000 quantum physics enthusiasts who like to see what the life of a quantum physicist is like and ask me questions like the ones here on I’m a scientist!

    • Photo: Luke Humphrey

      Luke Humphrey answered on 28 Mar 2022:

      I’m always proud when I’m really busy but still take the time to help someone out.

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