What’s your favourite thing to research?

Question: What's your favourite thing to research?
- Keywords:
  enjoyment,
  research
Asked by bill on 3 Oct 2021.
- Catriona Cunningham answered on 10 Sep 2021:
  
  My main research interest is finding stem cell-based therapies for brain and spinal cord repair. It’s what I had the opportunity to work on during my last job as a research fellow and PhD.
- Malcolm Macartney answered on 10 Sep 2021:
  
  New treatments for viral infections. If you can prevent death or the consequences of infections like HIV or COVID, that’s a great feeling.
- Jacob Maresca answered on 10 Sep 2021:
  
  The properties of distant galaxies. I love using observations to figure out what’s going on inside galaxies.
  
  We can measure how fast they are rotating, how many stars they are forming, how much dust they have, and much more!
- Chris Henstridge answered on 10 Sep 2021:
  
  This is an easy one, the brain!
  
  Every thought, feeling, idea, plan and memory is controlled by the fatty, watery collection of cells in your head.
  
  Those cells have to work in synchrony to ensure it (and you) functions properly. Tiny connection points between brain cells allow the transfer of information from one cell to the next. These connections are called synapses and there are more of these in your brain than stars in our galaxy!
  
  These synapses breakdown as we age and in diseases of the brain like Alzheimer’s disease.
  
  I study these synapses and i want to find out why and how they break down in disease, so i can hopefully discover a way to prevent it from happening.
- Giles Strong answered on 10 Sep 2021:
  
  I enjoy taking techniques and methods from other subjects and adapting them to work for my subject. By doing this we are able to draw on the experience and expertise of a much wider range of people.
  Specifically, I focus on adapting artificial intelligence techniques to work for physics research. Artificial intelligence/AI/machine learning is widely used by large companies like Google, and even members of the public benefit from it every day; your phone is able to predict what you will write when you text thanks to AI. It is a very powerful technology, but it has not yet been fully adopted for use in scientific research.
- Jade Eyles answered on 13 Sep 2021:
  
  My favourite thing to research is volcanoes and earthquakes! I find all natural hazards fascinating – but I love watching volcanoes erupt, and finding out if we had any warnings before volcanic eruptions!
- Andrew Hone answered on 13 Sep 2021:
  
  I love it when ideas or techniques from one area of maths or physics shows a surprising connection with a completely different area. In my current research, I take concepts from physics, like conservation of energy or angular momentum (a property of rotating bodies) and apply them to understand the behaviour of sequences of numbers, or sets of algebraic quantities.
- Nordine Helassa answered on 13 Sep 2021:
  
  My main research interest is about understanding cardiovascular diseases. I use biochemical and biophysical methods to investigate the mechanism of diseases on a molecular level to help with the development of potential new therapies.
- Katie Emery answered on 14 Sep 2021:
  
  My research area is currently in weed control. To ensure the world has a strong food supply, farmers need to maximise the crop growth on their land. Weeds compete with crops for nutrients and sunlight, so my current area of research is finding a material that can remove the weeds to ensure that the crop can grow to its best. I grew up in a village with a strong farming influence so I love that I can now support that using my scientific interest
- Jacqueline Siu answered on 15 Sep 2021:
  
  What does our immune system do when we are healthy especially in our gut! I’m particularly interested in how the immune system stays alert when we are healthy and does not accidently attack harmless things.

Question: What's your favourite thing to research?

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