Question: why have you devoted your life to science ?????????? ;)

Matthew Tomlinson answered on 18 Nov 2013:

I wouldn’t say my life is devoted to science (I’m married with 3 children so I have a lot of other things to think about!) but I do spend a lot time researching and thinking about ways to solve the problems we are facing in our work. The reason I spend the time I do is because the work is so interesting, there are so many new things to try and new things to see that I think I would be bored if I didn’t do this work! In fact I was a sales rep for a year before I got this job and one of my biggest problems with the work was boredom and frustration that other people got to do research and I didn’t. The other reason is that we get to make a difference to people’s lives. I wanted to be a doctor at one point, but the thought of blood put me off, doing science is my way of making a difference in a similar way to a doctor, without the blood and guts!