Working from home is fantastic because it lets me spend more time with my family and doing things that I enjoy! A lot of time is spent playing with my son but outside of that I play video games like Dota 2 with my friends and cool stuff like 3D printing! I have also started to collect swords which I will display on the wall of my office, so far I only have one but would love to get more in the future. I love playing board games and card games too, I have played games like Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh in the past but I am planning to learn Magic The Gathering in the future. I try to learn new things like British Sign Language which I would love to do something with in the future.

I work for a Lab in Oxfordshire which does a lot of cool science, but I work with a particle accelerator which smashes small charged particles called protons at a really high speed into a metal wall. This creates some different small particles called neutrons which can be used to do some amazing things! We use them to take pictures of the insides of things, a lot like having an X-ray at a hospital! These pictures let us study what’s inside of things and what they are made of, which is useful or really old objects that are found in museums like swords and skeletons! I write the program which helps other scientists make sense of the pictures we take 🙂

I have a meeting at 9:30am every day with the rest of my team to discuss what we did yesterday and what we’re hoping to work on today, this can change quite a lot depending on how the day goes! I normally spend my morning looking at some current issues that we have with the program and try to figure out a way to fix them, or add new things to the code. Some days we have meetings with the scientists that use the program where they help us find new ways to make the program better! After I have done some work, I will have lunch with my family before putting my son down for a nap in the afternoon, sometimes I’m tempted to have a nap as well!

The work I do after lunch can vary from attending a lecture, writing more code, having meetings, or taking some time to learn something related to my work that can help me understand things better. It’s always a great idea to take some time to learn something new!