Question: If your favourite subject in school was biology, why did you decide to work in chemistry?

Robert Bowles answered on 10 Nov 2014:

Good question. I studied biology at uni and my PhD had a lot of biology in it, but a lot of chemistry too so I know quite a lot about biochemistry. As you get more into science the lines between the sciences as they are taught at school get a bit blurred. For example: you might take a technique for analysing chemicals that a chemist has developed but use it to understand biology. e.g. the iodine starch reaction. I work with chemists now, helping them with their careers, but I am not now actually doing chemistry. As a scientist I understand and can relate to science career routes even though I don’t always know about the science or chemistry a particular person uses in their day to day job.