• Question: why did you become a research associate at the Department of Chemistry of Imperial College London when you wanted to do physics?

    Asked by neha to Guido on 12 Mar 2015.
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      Guido Bolognesi answered on 12 Mar 2015:

      Hi Neha,

      that’s a great question!!
      Indeed I still want to do and I am doing physics.

      Nowadays, the problems the scientists have to address are very complicated and we can deal with them only if we work together in team. Such teams of scientists are made of people with very different background. That is why I was hired in a Chemistry Dept, despite the fact I am a mechanical engineer and I did my phd in Physics Dept.

      The boundaries between different fields of sciences are now getting more and more blurred and so scientists with different background move and work in different places. In my office, we are: a mechanical engineer, an electronic engineer, three chemists and one physicists but we are in a chemistry dept. Isn’t it cool?

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