• Question: Is Ireland a good place to develop as a scientist?

    Asked by Mariangel Garcia to Emma, Monica, Sebastian, Sinead, Thomas on 13 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Sinead Loughran

      Sinead Loughran answered on 13 Nov 2016:

      YES YES YES.

      Ireland is one of the best countries in the world to develop as a scientist.

      We are only a small country but Ireland is 16th in Global Scientific ranking.

      We are;
      1st in the world for Nanosciences (study of very small things).
      2nd in the world for Immunology (study of the immune system).
      2nd in the world for Computer Sciences (no explanation needed) and
      3rd in the world for Animal and Diary science.

      Now isn’t that really something?!

    • Photo: Thomas McLoughlin

      Thomas McLoughlin answered on 14 Nov 2016:

      would agree with Sinead

    • Photo: Sebastian Gornik

      Sebastian Gornik answered on 14 Nov 2016:

      Hmmm, I think this can not be answered easily. In general it depends a lot on what type of science you want to do. And then it is mostly the Universities that make the difference. So, I think there is general scope to develop as a scientist in Ireland, but depending on the topic you choose. For example, hardly anyone works on something like drought tolerance of plats in Ireland, because Ireland has no problem with water, so if you wanted to study this, its not a good place, on the other hand, if you want to study drought tolerance you would go to Australia, where it is a massive problem, and a lot of scientists work on it.

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