• Question: what do you do?

    Asked by azreal101 to Sarah, rhysphillips, Ian, Helen, David on 14 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Rhys Phillips

      Rhys Phillips answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      I look at methods of protecting aeroplanes against damage from lightning strikes. I also present a science radio show!

    • Photo: Helen Fletcher

      Helen Fletcher answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      Hi azreal101, we give people vaccines for TB and I look in the blood of the people who get the vaccines for immune responses. I mostly teach other people how to do the experiments, rather than do them myself

    • Photo: Sarah Cook

      Sarah Cook answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      I work on oil spill modelling. My work is important to help prevent environmental disasters such as the blow out from the BP Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010. By having a better understanding of oil spill modelling we can put in necessary control measures.

    • Photo: David Corne

      David Corne answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      I find things that are too hard for people to do, and try to work out how to get computers to do them instead.

    • Photo: Ian van der Linde

      Ian van der Linde answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      I do experiments to help us to understand how people see the world – how we look at pictures, how our eyes move, how much of the world we can remember, and how good we are at searching for objects and recognising faces.

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