Who is Dr J?

Good question, if only I knew the answer to that!

I've been a post-doc for two and a half years and in that time I have acquired many more grey hairs, which I blame my post-doc for...oh wait there is small contribution of my genes too. Science is fun, yes it is. It is also massively time consuming, leaves one feeling all too aware of one's own shortcomings both intellectually, and personally, and is badly remunerated. Yet I still do it. Go figure!

Daily routine: go into work, work on some experiment or other, coffee, more of the same, lunch, more of the same, end of the day. No day is the same and as a post-doc my world has changed a lot from being purely focused on a project to trying to focus on a project and assist and supervise others. The diversity of things I have to do on a daily basis is a real challenge!

Things I like: Cycling, Earls size raspberry crush martinis, Earls, flying British Airways, red wine, photography, global thinking, the company of good friends, cats, high speed train travel, superb music, talking and arguing politics and atheism.

Things I don't like: the career structure in science, the ever increasing and unnecessarily expensive administrative burden in universities, being single and living alone, experiments that don't work for a long time then do all of a sudden with no explanation, social conservatives (even though Dr A says I am one!!!), religion (any kind), my salary, people who smell, this could be a very long list..... as a scientist I'm paid to be critical!!