After my degree I did a course with the Tropical Biology Association which is an organisation that takes groups of half European half African students to different field sites around the world. If I was studying dinosaurs, I liked the idea of treating them more as animals than the preservation and geological side of things, so there was a paleobiology aspect to it. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to go down the geology route or the biology route. That was a great degree because it gave you the opportunities to sample loads of different subjects in science. I wanted to be a palaeontologist, that motivated me to go to college and I did my undergrad in UCD in Science. In general I always loved wildlife, watching David Attenborough documentaries growing up. I was basically a hipster because I was into them before Jurassic Park. I was one of the kids obsessed with dinosaurs. Q: My first question to open is really to tell us a little bit about your interests, and what kinds of things you’ve studied and worked on, what got you into what you do.Īs far back as I can remember, I was fascinated by nature.
