What words of advice would you give young people today who think they may be interested in becoming professional scientists? I'd say go for it. I think it's brilliant being a scientist, it's great fun. It's superb to be studying things right at the forefront. There's great excitement and along the way you acquire all sorts of useful skills. So, you can use them, those skills, in all sorts of ways. For instance, computing skills, how to use the web, things like that.