• Question: What made you want to become a scientist?

    Asked by 786smap42 to Sheila, Piyush, Natalia, Gary, Dimitar on 6 Nov 2018. This question was also asked by Maebh66, 947smap48, maeveb1, imascientist, 889smap52.
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      Dimitar Shterionov answered on 6 Nov 2018:

      I think there are two reasons:
      1. When I finished my university studies I was offered a very well-paid job in a computer software company. I had also the possibility to do a PhD in computer science and engineering. Then I asked myself what I want to do… to become and expert programmer? or learn much more things and become a scientist?
      2. My father is a scientist as well and I got inspired somehow by him đŸ™‚

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      Gary Munnelly answered on 7 Nov 2018: last edited 7 Nov 2018 5:07 pm

      By the time I was finishing in college I had done a few research internships and learned that computer science could be used for a lot more than just writing games. I really believed that if I got involved in research and became a scientist then some day I might be able to do something really good for the world. I didn’t specifically know what that would be, but that was the plan.

      I guess it still is the plan.

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