• Question: What does your day to day involve?

    Asked by anon-41418 on 17 Nov 2022.
    • Photo: Vincent Monchal

      Vincent Monchal answered on 17 Nov 2022:

      It’s really variable, it could involve writing a journal article about my last results, spend the day to the lab, interpret datas or going to the field and get new samples.

    • Photo: Hao Shi

      Hao Shi answered on 18 Nov 2022:

      Yeah, my day is pretty much the same as Vincent’s, and also sometimes I have lots of meetings.

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      Ingmar Schoen answered on 18 Nov 2022: last edited 18 Nov 2022 12:07 pm

      Every day at work is different, with different times spent for discussing with my team, reading articles from other researchers, working in the lab, lecturing to students, writing articles or grant applications, and consulting with my colleagues on various aspects of Teaching, Research and Service.

    • Photo: Vanessa Rodrigues

      Vanessa Rodrigues answered on 18 Nov 2022:

      The aim is for a personal-professional life balance.

      The routine in college was always 8am – 8pm research of experiment, reading literature and analysis (with breaks) and then time for self, unless there was an assignment deadline.

      As a researcher now, it involves firstly setting up reminders and schedules for 8am- 6pm. This is majorly for discussion meetings, presentations, documenting research activity, monitoring lab work, reading other scientists published work, finding ways to collaborate and market research to buy more goodies for the lab.

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      Anna Desmond answered on 18 Nov 2022:

      Everyday is slightly different. Usually I get up, have my breakfast and go to work for 8:30am. Then during the day I am either doing experiments in the lab, working on my computer, writing up my results or I’m teaching students. I go home at 5pm, cook dinner and then relax for the evening.

    • Photo: Lyndsey Moore

      Lyndsey Moore answered on 21 Nov 2022:

      My day varies. Sometimes, it’s reading and writing for journal articles. Sometimes, it’s analysing experiment results. Sometimes, it’s planning and running experiments. It really depends on what’s going on in my project.

    • Photo: Cristina Cuesta Marti

      Cristina Cuesta Marti answered on 30 Nov 2022:

      It is a combination of labwork but also computer work, because you also need to read, write, organize, analyse your results, design the graphs, preapre presentations and meetings!

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