Transcript
[Music starts and image shows Dr Åsa Jämting speaking]
My name is Åsa Jämting , I manage our nanoparticle characterisation facility in Lindfield at the NMI.
[Image shows Dr Jämting walking around a lab or office with various equipment and interacting with staff in the room.]
I’ve always liked science, if you have a lab full of toys like I do, you end up doing things that really makes a difference. You start your day with something, and you walk away with something else. There’s always a bit of investigation related to this and I just love that aspect.
[Image shows Dr Jämting pointing at a graph appearing on the screen of an equipment/hardware in the lab.]
[Image changes to Dr Wenwen Lei sitting in another room and speaking. There are various equipment and hardware around her.]
I am Wenwen, I’m working at Humidity Standards.
[Image changes to show the various hardware around the room, the equipment Dr Lei uses for her work, then the image focuses back to her while she continues speaking.]
When I was doing PhD, I feel it’s very fascinating when I’m facing one problem, then I find a way how to find the solution. Why you face this problem or where does this problem come from, so you feel excited when you really know what’s this answer.
[Image changes to another room with high ceilings, showing other types of equipment and hardware. Dr Winston is shown speaking, then shifts to show different sections and hardware in the High Voltage laboratory of the NMI facility.]
Hi my name is Winston Yan, I work in the National Measurement Institute in the high voltage laboratory for 9 years. I love science because I am a curious person. I like to know what’s happening behind the natural phenomenon. Measurement absolutely matters to many aspects of our lives, for example you have renewable energy you have electrical vehicles so what’s coming along with these new technologies are the measurement challenges. Our job is to provide the solution to measure the new equipment or new technologies. We can make sure they are safe to use, and we understand what will happen if you put the new thing in to the power network.
[Image changes to Dr Jämting speaking in her lab/office and showing a small vial with liquid and other contents inside it.]
This to everyone would look just like water, there’s lots of hundred nanometre particles in here. But if you can’t measure it, you don’t know that it’s there and then you can’t, you can’t avoid it or you can’t benefit from it. You just have no idea. You cannot have a functioning society without science. You have to have something that links everything together, and if you don’t have the science and you don’t find out what is causing the things you do observe, I think you are really on the back foot with your competitors but also with your compatriots.
[Image shifts back to Dr Jämting speaking]
So happy National Science Week from the National Measurement Institute.
[Dr Winston Yan speaking]
Happy National Science Week from National Measurement Institute.
[Dr Wenwen Lei speaking]
Happy National Science Week from National Measurement Institute.
[Image showing the closing screen with text and the Australian Government and National Science Week branding logos and graphics]
An Australian Government Initiative | Inspiring Australia
National Science Week 2022
13-21 August
www.scienceweek.net.au
#scienceweek
