• Question: What kind of education did you need to start?

    Asked by nicenadia to Alessandro, Angela, Claudia, Marina, Phil on 9 Mar 2013.
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      Marina De Vos answered on 9 Mar 2013:

      For my work, I needed to obtain a bachelor degree in computer science and a PhD. in computer science. The latter demonstrates that you can find the problems in your area and are able to solve them.
      To start computer science, you need a good understanding of mathematics (A-level maths)

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      Claudia Krehl answered on 9 Mar 2013:

      To be a researcher at university you generally need a PhD and to be accepted for one of those you need at least a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant area. So you probably spend at least 6 year at university before you can become a researcher, which sounds a lot but when you are doing a PhD you are doing the same kind of things researchers do, so it is a lot more practical and hands on.

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      Alessandro Guazzi answered on 10 Mar 2013:

      To start off everything and go and do my physics masters I needed A-level maths, physics and another science (I chose biology, although a better choice would have been chemistry). From physics, you can choose to do quite a lot: it’s a degree which helps you learn how to solve problems more than anything. I wanted to change a bit and do something medical and more hands-on so I chose a PhD in biomedical engineering. Luckily the PhD had a year of courses to begin with so it wasn’t too much of a jump!

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      Phillip Wilkinson answered on 11 Mar 2013:

      The usual route is GCSEs – A-Levels – Degree – Masters Degree – PhD. Then once you have a PhD people have to call you doctor!

      This isn’t the only way though. You can work anywhere and still be a scientist, only difference is you’re science would be more practical and hands on in the real world. Rather than mostly theoretical.

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