• Question: do you guys work together or alone

    Asked by anon-209833 to Verity, Sergio, Nick, Maria, David, Annette on 12 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Nick Werren

      Nick Werren answered on 12 Mar 2019:

      I work alone, although I sometimes collaborate with other people working on quantum biology here at the University of Surrey.

      It’s nice to focus on your own stuff, but when you get stuck you have noone to ask for help! And that sucks 🙁

    • Photo: Sergio Adan Bermudez

      Sergio Adan Bermudez answered on 12 Mar 2019:

      I work mostly alone as my project is quite different from what other researchers work on in Edinburgh. I am able to ask for help in particular things to my PhD fellows or supervisor and friends ^^

    • Photo: David Whitworth

      David Whitworth answered on 12 Mar 2019:

      I mostly work alone, but there are a group of people in the same research group who I can turn to for help if need be. We all work on different projects, but in the same over arching field of star formation. For example, another PhD student in my group is looking at how magnetic fields affect star formation, whereas I am looking at how a dwarf galaxy that has very different chemistry, mass and dark matter affects star formation. So we all work alone, but help each other.

    • Photo: Maria Walach

      Maria Walach answered on 13 Mar 2019:

      I share a big office with ~10 other scientists and students! Mostly, I do all my own work but I have some close collaborators. So, I get my results or make a plan and then we regularly catch up to see how things are going, talk about what the results mean, and how we are going to move forward!
      My work involves working alone, but sometimes also quite intensely working with other people.

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