• Question: what countries do you go to

    Asked by anon-205686 to Russell on 2 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Russell Arnott

      Russell Arnott answered on 2 Mar 2019:

      Since becoming a scientist, I have been to Ireland, France, Italy, Sweden, the USA, South Africa, Chile, and loads of weird islands in the Southern Ocean like South Georgia, The Falklands and The South Orkneys.

      I work a lot at Umea University in the north of Sweden – it’s the most northerly city in Sweden so inside the Arctic circle making it really cold!

      Later this month, I’m going to the train to Brussels in Belgium to have a meeting with some other ocean scientists.

Comments

  • Photo: Affelia

    Affelia commented on :

    I haven’t been abroad for work yet but that’s only because I’ve just started my job. I’m really excited that I get to go to the USA in April to work at Harvard University for a couple of weeks and later this year I’ll hopefully be going to Switzerland. My supervisor is one of the Principal Investigators of a future space mission which means that she’s in charge of the whole thing! It’s a joint mission between the European Space Agency and the Chinese Academy of Sciences so she gets to go to China a lot!

  • Photo: Gabriel

    Gabriel commented on :

    Hey there!

    I’m from Hong Kong, but I’m now working with a UK university in a lab in Switzerland while living in France. My work so far has also taken me to Italy, Germany, and Israel. You get to travel a lot doing research!

  • Photo: Kathryn

    Kathryn commented on :

    I went to California in the USA a couple of times, because part of the experiment I worked on was there. I also went to a big meeting in Italy where I got to learn lots of new science – it was like going to a special science school for a week!

  • Photo: Jose Angel

    Jose Angel commented on :

    If you want to be a scientist, you have to like to travel. Not only for the workshops, or courses to continue learning, but for the conferences where you present your work, or meet new friends. You can not be alone in your office or laboratory, the good thing about science is that it allows you to know other cultures, and people.
    In my case, I started my career in Spain and I have been working in Croatia, South Africa, Ireland, Japan and the United Kingdom (where I am now). I have also been lucky enough to visit, France, Switzerland, Germany, Canada, Portugal. And soon I have my tickets reserved for Italy and Austria. As you can see, all the scientists move a lot …