Is this what you wanted to do when you were a kid? What first got you interested in your field?
As a kid I wanted to be an explorer. That’s a pretty tricky occupation these days, but I think trying to understand the world through science does some of the same things.
Is this what you wanted to do when you were a kid? What first got you interested in your field?
I’m not really an astronomer, but I am a science communicator. As a kid (in the 60s) I regularly leafed through my parents collection of the Life: Nature Series. Wonderful. Buy your children slightly-incomprehensible science books with lots of photos and diagrams.
Caroline Faulder spoke to Canberra Skeptics on March 22 about her thesis topic, ‘The Importance of Role Models for Women in Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths (STEM) at ANU’
Is this what you wanted to do when you were a kid? What first got you interested in your field?
When I was really young, I wanted to be a garbage truck (the actual truck, not the driver). Then it was not until Uni that I started to do Physics, and then randomly chose to do research in astrophysics and liked it.
