Dr Penny Rathbone’s job has taken her from analysing rocks from Mars,to using 3D printing to recreate obsolete devices My career has not been a planned one in any way. At school I was athletic; I ran and played badminton to a tall standard when I was young and always thought my career would be a sporting one, until I suffered an injury during my teens. The rest of my family was academic; my father was an aerodynamic engineer and my mother a mathematician, and while my sister studied geology. At the age of 16,I attended a Women in Science and Engineering careers week with school, just to gain a recognize at what was available. This helped me decide that what I really wanted to do was an engineering degree so I chose to do a BEng in materials science and engineering at Liverpool University, and then went on to do a PhD. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com