mathiaseI’m a Scientist is like school science lessons meet the X Factor! School students choose which scientist gets a prize of $1000 to communicate their work.
Scientists and students talk on this website. They both break down barriers, have fun and learn. But only the students get to vote.
This zone is the Boron Zone. It has a range of scientists studying all different topics. Who gets the prize? YOU decide!
I can’t trace it back to anything in particular. I have just always wanted to understand how things work. And my personality likes being quantitative – I like to know what the temperature is, what my heart rate is – I like making decisions based on data!
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I have always loved the outdoor world – plants, animals and especially the coast. When I finally made the decision to go to university I wanted to work as a ranger in a National Park. But in my second year of University I found that I really enjoyed the science based subjects so I did more of them and switched focus. I discovered that science was all around us, and can help explain many things – from the food we eat, the cars we drive and why we make decisions at any given time.
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Rather than anything in particular it was a combination of events – I loved investigating aspects of biology, asking questions and learning new facts about the natural world. I was still contemplating exactly what I would study, when a work colleague pointed out a course that he thought would be ideal for me. On further investigation I agreed and hence moved to Townsville to study marine biology/zoology. Absolutely loved it and haven’t looked back!
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I grew up with science in my family. Both my parents are scientists, but it is a striking memory of Richard Feynman explaining why the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded when I was almost 10 years old, that I think of as my inspiration. I remember being amazed that something so terrible and tragic could be explained by something as simple as a very cold morning and a perished rubber ring.
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I always enjoyed science and maths at school (yes I am a super nerd!). Geology seemed like a good thing to do because I love being outdoors. I can remember going on a family holiday to Norway (which is not so far away from where I grew up – would be a bit far for a holiday from Australia!) and being fascinated by glaciers and the shapes that they made in the landscape. Like Matthew, I like everything to be quantitative. Numbers make sense to me. And I like figuring out how things work or why things are they way that they are.
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