Come and meet new scientists! See our exclusive question and answer sessions with scientists from all different walks of life and from different parts of the world. Learn about new areas of research and see what exciting new discoveries they are looking to uncover!
What is your current job and what do you like about it? Currently I am a PhD student at the University of Western Australia and the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research. My favorite part of my job is solving the new challenges I face every ... Read More...
What is your current job and what do you like about it? I am: 1) A recent Ph.D. graduate, going to take on a new post-doc position. And 2) the Chief Science Officer at Hedgemon, LLC (http://hedgemon.net) I like the job because it gives me a chance ... Read More...
What is your current job and what do you like about it? I am currently an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering. My research involves the study of natural/biological systems and translate their clever strategies into synthetic materials for various industrial and biomedical applications. Through ... Read More...
What is your current job and what do you like about it? Senior Researcher in Japanese National Institute. That's very comfortable. I really like this job. I get to study cool things like the pollen drone we created to help pollinate plants. You can read about ... Read More...
What is a typical day like for you? I spend a lot of time meeting with students and other professors. Most of this time we spend speaking about science and engineering topics. More often than not, we are all stumped by some concept or observation from ... Read More...
Born and raised in Moscow, Nicholas Kotov had traveled quite a bit before becoming a Professor at the University of Michigan. Nicholas Kotov loves science and works on ways to correct vision problems by making nanoscale materials such as carbon nanotubes that can interact with ... Read More...
"German DJ and producer Matt John is one of those artists who has been changing the face of music. Matt’s compositions are so exclusive and expressive that one can travel through them like through a three-dimensional movie. All the titles on the “Behind the Atoms” ... Read More...
Don Eigler joined IBM in 1986 after completing his post-doctoral work at Bell Labs and getting his Ph.D. in physics at the University of California, San Diego (while surfing in his spare time). In his free moments these days, Don enjoys classic science fiction, backpacking ... Read More...
Tell us a bit about your background I was born in Panama and moved to the United States about 8 years ago. I come from a family of engineers and science and math lovers. I was always taught that the possibilities are endless, so I ... Read More...
Catherine grew up in Ohio, went to Oberlin College, and then recieved a Ph.D. from Cornell University. After spending some time doing research in Sweden, she returned to Oberlin College and is currently teaching chemistry there. She studies the materials used in historic organ pipe ... Read More...
Daniel Soto was born and raised in Texas. After finishing high school at LBJ Science Academy in Austin, TX, he went to Stanford University in California. He earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1994. He then spent several years working as an engineer at ... Read More...
Seth Darling is a scientist at the Argonne National Laboratory, a large national laboratory outside of Chicago. He is a materials chemist, and much of his work relates to nanoscale processes related to solar energy. When you were a kid, what interested you about science? I wanted ... Read More...
Aaron Strickland is a chemist studying Nanotechnology. At the time of this interview, Aaron Strickland was a postdoctoral research associate and National Science Foundation Discovery Corps Fellow at Cornell University. He is now Vice President of Research and Development at iFyber, a small company in ... Read More...
Sir Harold Walter Kroto shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for the discovery of the "buckyball", the "molecule" shaped like a soccerball made of 60 carbon atoms. Originally from England, Prof. Kroto has been a Professor of Chemistry ... Read More...
Heather Clark is a nanoscientist at Draper Laboratories who works on developing special tattoos made of tiny little nanoparticles to measure blood glucose so that people with diabetes can better measure their blood sugar levels. How cool is that? Tell us a bit about your background.How ... Read More...
Corey Hewitt is a graduate student at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. He discovered his passion for science in high school and is now conducting research in the fields of mechanical engineering and physics. He also invented a thermoelectric material called power felt. Tell us ... Read More...