• Question: How does your work have an effect on others?

    Asked by to Tamas, David, Johanna, Linda, Tom on 18 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by ashleypeterthomas, .
    • Photo: Tamas Korcsmaros

      Tamas Korcsmaros answered on 18 Jun 2014:

      If my current research work will be successful, I maybe able to point out that after a cancer surgery what types of antibiotics would be the best to treat the patient. In the meantime, we are developing computer programs and websites that could help other scientist to work more efficiently.

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      Linda Cremonesi answered on 18 Jun 2014:

      The final goal of my experiment is to find out why the universe is dominated by matter (and not anti-matter), so the effect of my research would be that some of us could have a satisfying answer to the question “why do we exist?”

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      David Davila answered on 18 Jun 2014:

      My work will be directly linked to spreading awareness of how people become addicted to different things, and may someday be helpful in finding an effective treatment for different kinds of addiction!

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      Thomas Smith answered on 23 Jun 2014:

      There are a few aspects to my job, and some have more obvious effects on others. I’m spend a lot of time teaching, so I hope that this has a direct impact on my students, maybe I will inspire one or two of them to be scientists.

      I also spend a lot of time working with fire and rescue services and this is already having an impact on the way they operate. I once got to see a group of firefighters, paramedics and police officers responding to a pretend wildfire (that I had helpted to simulate for them); it was fantastic to see all these people responding as if it was a real emergency!

      Some of my other work is a bit more difficult to link to its impact. My work on the gases in the smoke from fires will eventually help people who try to understand climate change.

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