What do you do?

[lostaquarium]

I just found myself wondering what everyone in this forum does for a living. A lot of posts seem very well informed, so... Are you a student? A professional scientist? Or is science more of a hobby? What field are you in? What are your special interests?

To start off: I'm a 3rd year student of medicine. Special interests: neuroscience, especially circuits and motor control.

 

[PhilosophicalBluster]

I don't quite know the finer points, but I would definitely like to work in some type of biology field. If I went into medicine, I would probably go into oncology or neurology. If I instead became a scientist, I would probably go into genetics, virology, or neuroscience.

 

[Hespera]

Student / teaching assistant

undergrad degree in zoology

 

[ragarth]

Student, computer science. I want to go into computational neuroscience.

 

[pgp_protector]

Software Development
Web Development
IT Department
Database Management
And Other Odds & ends

 

[Vehementi Dominus]

I uh... watch loads of youtube videos from universities, play CoD4 and get stoned a lot.

 

[Hespera]

I uh... watch loads of youtube videos from universities, play CoD4 and get stoned a lot.

pants on fire

 

[Tomk80]

I just found myself wondering what everyone in this forum does for a living. A lot of posts seem very well informed, so... Are you a student? A professional scientist? Or is science more of a hobby? What field are you in? What are your special interests?

To start off: I'm a 3rd year student of medicine. Special interests: neuroscience, especially circuits and motor control.

I'm currently a PhD student environmental epidemiology. I did an Msc environmental health sciences and Msc epidemiology. Prior working experience before starting a PhD was also in environmental epi and (completely unrelated) software development.

 

[sfs]

I'm a statistical geneticist (originally an experimental physicist). I do mostly human genetics and some malaria, with a little dabbling in rotifers at the moment. I've spent a fair bit of time on models of human genetic history and on the genetics of natural selection, and on methods to detect episodes of selection.

(At the moment I'm at the annual Cold Spring Harbor "Biology of Genomes" conference. Svante Paabo gave a talk during the evolution session this evening about the sequencing of the Neandertal genome, but he didn't actually report many new conclusions. One tidbit that I'd heard before: Neandertals had lower genetic diversity than modern humans, and therefore probably had quite a small population size. Oh, and the claim has been made that there are upwards of 5000 RNA genes in the human genome, which would mean that at least 20% of all genes are not protein-coding.)

 

[ranmaonehalf]

i work in undisclosed international operations working in volitile situations.
I regularly make negotiations and train various internationals in interogations and recon.

 

[sbvera13]

I drive a large, expensive bandaid box. With flashy red lights on it. That is, I'm an EMT.

 

[Mystman]

I have a Bsc in a study focused on the medical side of all the exact sciences (best way to explain it...)

Currently doing a Msc in what can best be described as Molecular Biophysics... knowing how life works at the molecular scale, and preferable by doing experiments involving lasers.

 

[ragarth]

I have a Bsc in a study focused on the medical side of all the exact sciences (best way to explain it...)

Currently doing a Msc in what can best be described as Molecular Biophysics... knowing how life works at the molecular scale, and preferable by doing experiments involving lasers.

Lasers, is there anything they can't do?

 

[Baggins]

I am a Chief Geophysicist for an geophysical exploration company. At the moment I am shooting 2D seismic with a new 2 component cable in the Arafura Sea between Indonesia and Australia.

My background - other than my industrial geophysical work - is a BSc in Geology and a Masters in micropalaeontology specialising in palynofacies - the study of the organic debris in rocks, especially oil source rocks.

My other area of interest is in PreCambrian and Cambrian evolutionary palaeontology.

 

[Chesterton]

Part-time naysayer; full-time nitpicker. In my spare time I enjoy quibbling.

 

[Mystman]

Lasers, is there anything they can't do?

Nope, nothing that I can think of.

 

[arunma]

I'm a PhD student in particle astrophysics.

Sfs, as a fellow particle physicist, I would be most interested to know how you got into genetics.

 

[plindboe]

... Are you a student? A professional scientist? Or is science more of a hobby? What field are you in?

Biology student, 3rd year.

What are your special interests?

Lazing around, debating on internet fora, enjoying life... basically anything that doesn't involve reading huge, dry biology textbooks.

Peter

 

[FedererFan]

I'm a law student. I don't have a lot of real science education, but I took quite a few science classes in undergrad and I read a ton of random science books. I've often thought that I made a mistake and I should have gone into physics or astronomy, but hey, law's good too.

Very interesting to see what everyone's background is!

 

[atomweaver]

Polymer chemist/lab manager in the private sector. My company makes raw materials used in zero VOC/low energy demand coatings, inks, glues, composites, sealants, gaskets, castings, etc.