Question: Did you ever question yourself if this is truly the right domain for you?

Susan Cartwright answered on 15 May 2020: last edited 15 May 2020 10:48 am

Yes, I have. I almost did molecular biology at university – decided against because some of the experiments looked quite fiddly and my hand-eye coordination is not great (one of the reasons I did not consider medicine – you really would not want me sewing up something crucial in your insides!) – and given all that has happened in molecular biology in the last half century I do wonder if that was the right decision. Likewise, I almost did cosmology rather than particle physics for my PhD, and that’s another areas which has been revolutionised since the 1980s. But, on the whole, I’m retty satisfied with what I chose: I got to live in some interesting places and work with some fantastic people.