• Question: How much has your research improved during the last year?

    Asked by Animal Hats to Anna, George, Jodi, Rob, Stefan on 13 Nov 2014. This question was also asked by 428bdta49.
    • Photo: Stefan Lines

      Stefan Lines answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      Quite a bit actually! At the start of last year, my models were very limited because they only looked at solid material in the process of planet formation. Now, I’m looking at the gas too. I’ve doubled in productivity 😀

    • Photo: Jodi Schneider

      Jodi Schneider answered on 14 Nov 2014:

      This year I got my PhD — so I’m now Dr. Jodi!

      To get a PhD, you have to do something new — and write a book about it. Then you have an oral exam. I gave a talk and then was grilled for a few hours by 4 eminent scientists:
      http://jodischneider.com/blog/2013/10/01/ph-d-viva-public-talk/

      How did this improve my research? Writing & talking about my work helps me understand what I am doing and what directions to go in next.

    • Photo: Anna Scaife

      Anna Scaife answered on 15 Nov 2014:

      My research has improved this year because we worked out a new way to process and analyse our telescope data. That helped us make better images and so we could see more things!

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