• Question: What kind of place do you work in?

    Asked by flower123 to Ceri, Monica, Arttu, James_M, Philip on 14 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by sarazaidi98, dilanshah, danm, thupigaa29, saraw1998, sara97, bosun.
    • Photo: Arttu Rajantie

      Arttu Rajantie answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      I am a theorist, so I work in an office. My work place is located in South Kensington in London. You may have walked past because it is next to Science Museum and Natural History Museum. The Physics Department is not an impressive looking building, so you would not have noticed it, but the location is great.

    • Photo: Ceri Brenner

      Ceri Brenner answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      I work at the Central Laser Facility (check out my profile for a short tour of the lab) which is at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (google it to see the website and pictures). It’s like a big science campus, about 15 miles south of oxford, where there are loads of offices and research labs (the central laser facility is just one of many). When i’m on an experiment, i spend most of the day either in the target areas building the experiment in the target chamber or in the control room waiting for a laser shot to happen. And then when i’m not on an experiment, i’m in my office (which is two floors up from the laser experiment areas) analysing data and writing my thesis.

    • Photo: Philip Dolan

      Philip Dolan answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      My lab is in Oxford, just a little north from the city centre. It’s in an old school house which dates back to the Victorian age. This has some fairly hilarious implications on our lab. It seems that the Victorian appreciation society (or something) requires us to use Victorian style colour schemes, to make sure that the building keeps looking Victorian-esque. So in order to keep our laser lab (filled with lasers and optical desks and equipment rack and computers etc) looking like it’s 150 years old we can only use green computer chairs. Cause blue ones would totally ruin the feel of the place.

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