Question: Do you ever feel under pressure to make sure your experiments go right?

Claudia Krehl answered on 20 Mar 2013:

All the time! You can never be sure that everything turns out the way you expect it, but thankfully even if it does go wrong I can still use the outcome of an experiment, as it will teach me something. But hopefully that shouldn’t happen.

We try to think about experiments in the first place a lot, to get them right. There is a lot of guidance on how to design experiments and I can ask my colleagues for advise if I have a question or get stuck on something. I also pilot my experiments. That means you test them before running them on a big scale. That way you can find out if everything is as expected or not and make changes if necesary before continuing.