The Goldilocks Job Between Industry & Academia

It turns out there's a sweet spot between academia and industry: somewhere you can still be a scientist and get to do fascinating research. I've been there for more than a year now, and can safely say... I love it. Here's why.

Also, I love doing these new hiking videos! I live in the Lake District in the UK and I'm so lucky.

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Music by Waking Aida, the song is called Jilted Surfers and always makes me feel kind of sad-nostalgic for PhD summers weekends. Used with the band's permission, thank you!

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My name is Lucy Kissick, I have a doctorate in planetary science from the University of Oxford, I am a chemist at a national laboratory in the nuclear industry, and there's a track from the Equilibrium soundtrack called 'Hidden Souls' that I would highly recommend you go and listen to right now, and I mean right n o w .