• Question: In the past year have you made any breakthroughs in your field of science?

    Asked by Atom to Cristiane, Nicki, Nikolai, Richard, Samuel on 11 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Nikolai Adamski

      Nikolai Adamski answered on 11 Mar 2015:

      Nothing that would have been picked up by the media. Most of the time science moves at a slow pace: That’s not because scientists are lazy, but because experiments take time and need to be replicated by other scientists. But every now and then science will have accumulated enough knowledge to allow a burst of innovation and breakthroughs to occur in a short amount of time. Think about the industrial revolution in the 18th century or the green revolution in the 20th century.

    • Photo: Samuel Ellis

      Samuel Ellis answered on 12 Mar 2015:

      Same as Nikolai, nothing which would seem like a huge breakthrough to the public, but some results have seemed big for me!

      Probably my best was in my previous work last year, where I showed that a type of failed anti-cancer drug could actually have a use in treating a type of parasite that kills lots of people in Africa. It was fairly preliminary data, but it let me publish my first scientific paper which was a big milestone for me at least 🙂

    • Photo: Richard Simons

      Richard Simons answered on 13 Mar 2015:

      I had a paper accepted for publication last summer, which is always a big thing for a scientist. Because of the nature of my work I like to think that it was a pretty significant step forward in my field. My work is essentially a redesign of the current simulation methods, optimising the process for LED light sources to that the field is ready for the incoming UV LED technology

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