Career Q&A

Vernon Morris inspires change in the geoscience community by calling on colleagues to commit to anti-racism in their scientific endeavours.

Debarati Chatterjee’s mission is to make science in India more welcoming towards women.

Sociologist Patricia Kingori is helping to expose contract cheating by scholars in high-income countries.

A course on disruptive innovation, and a supportive professional network, helped to unleash João Paulo Longo’s entrepreneurship skills.

The creator of the NumPy and SciPy libraries reflects on their supporting role in the story of Python, now the subject of a documentary.

Maydianne Andrade focuses on action and support, not guilt, when helping people to recognize biases and identify ways to change unfair outcomes.

Environmental scientist and global advocate Jessica Hernandez works to secure women’s rights and to integrate Indigenous science into environmental policy.

Passionate about making smaller and more efficient semiconductors, physicist Sonia Guimarães is a relentless voice for equity in Brazilian science.

Jaida Elcock, a co-founder of Minorities in Shark Sciences, talks about how pushback drives her forward.

‘If it’s easy, someone else will do it.’ Leah Ellis, chief executive of Sublime Systems, explains the challenge and appeal of slashing carbon emissions from cement production.

Mental illness cost this researcher almost a decade of their academic life. Now it motivates them to help find effective treatments.

After leaving academia, chemist Daisy Rosas Vargas starting leading outreach to encourage Latina people in pursuit of science careers.

Although he has pivoted to conservation photography, Sirachai (Shin) Arunrugstichai still considers the ocean as his office.

Salah Obayya works to advance women’s research careers in photonics in Egypt.

Undeterred by US funding cuts, behavioural-health researcher Jason Flatt studies how dementia affects people from sexual and gender minorities.

What does a chief business officer do, and how do you become one? Filippo Mulinacci describes his corporate career, the importance of on-the-job training and why he doesn’t miss the bench.

Neuroscientist Jessica Cantlon is urging scientists to use the power of local newspapers in the fight against US research-funding cuts.

Nathan Alexander's laboratory welcomes ‘anyone and everyone’ to use a mix of mathematics and computing to solve challenges in society.

Yohannes Haile-Selassie wants to shift the trajectory of palaeoanthropology in fossil-rich Ethiopia away from its long colonial heritage.

Vukosi Marivate learnt that communities, not just superstar individuals, can open doors in artificial intelligence.