what kind of place do you work in?

Question: what kind of place do you work in?

Asked by lucybirkett to Betul, Bridget, Ceri-Wyn, Laurel, Maria on 16 Jun 2010 in Categories: Scientist.
- Bridget Waller answered on 16 Jun 2010:
  
  Hi Lucy,
  
  I work in a University building most of the time, but other times I work at the zoo, or in laboratories in other countries. Hope this answers your question!
  
  bridget
- Ceri-Wyn Thomas answered on 16 Jun 2010:
  
  I work at the University of Bristol. If you’ve ever been to Bristol- my building is the huge tower at the top of Park Street. It’s like Hogwarts! The labs there are a little more modern and they are brightly lit rooms with loads of equipment and microscopes in them (generally very untidy looking!). My “office” is behind the Great Hall (so we have to put up with all the organ noise during graduation ceremonies!) and it’s a large room with lots of desks around the walls where other PhD students sit/work/snooze/watch Youtube.
  
  As part of my PhD I’ve also worked on the Great Barrier Reef at a research station, in south China (to get my fossils!) and at the Swiss Light Source which is a synchrotron In Switzerland (it’s like the large hadron collider only tiny and nowhere near as powerful!) 😉 It’s not always about being in an office!
- Maria Pawlowska answered on 16 Jun 2010:
  
  I mostly work in my office on the old campus of Cambridge University. It’s a neat little place with all my papers, books and best of all my really cool officemate Vera!
- Laurel Fogarty answered on 16 Jun 2010:
  
  I work partly in an office (a small part of which you can see on my profile!) with four other PhD students and partly in a secure animal facility holding my budgies. To make sure that the animals are safe and happy we restrict the number of people allowed in to see them and make sure that the lights and the temperature are ok so its quite a nice environment.
- Betul Arslan answered on 16 Jun 2010:
  
  I am working at Georgia Institute of Technology, a part of NASA Astrobiology Institute. We have several laboratories that work on understanding the evolution of early life (particularly RNA world). I must say I really like this place. People are very young (in my lab, the oldest person is 30 years old!) and energetic. We have meetings every week that we talk about our experimental problems or sometimes idea handicaps. I have an office that I share with another post-doctoral fellow, my lab is down the corridor. You are welcome to visit me for a tour, if you ever find yourself in US of A! 🙂

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