Question: What age were you when you started to be a scientist

Simone answered on 6 Nov 2018:

I would say you start your first scientific research project during the undergrad.
As my BSc. thesis project I was studying a way to measure laser beams with such a short duration that normal electronics was a million of times too slow to sense them.

Then during my master’s thesis project I spent more than a year in a lab, studying quantum-mechanically strange energy levels that were forming in very small organic crystals (that is crystals made by periodically repeated and ordered organic molecules).

From there to the PhD I am currently in, that can be called being officially a scientist I suppose.

I wanted to become a scientist since was I kid, though.
An astrophysicist to be precise. I was fascinated with the universe.
High school and University made led me to develop a passion for the ultr-small world, the nanoworld with electrons, fotons, and all the very interesting physics is happening with super small structures.