ASU Visit: Narrowing Research Interests

I had the pleasure of visiting ASU this past weekend for the School of Engineering of Matter, Transportation, and Energy open house.  We had the opportunity to visit a variety of labs and meet students and professors in the department.

I feel quite lucky to have the opportunity to get exposed to such a variety of fields through such events, my internship at TGen, the professors at PC, and textbooks.  I am getting a better handle on what fields are not compelling to me, as well as what questions I am drawn to and which disciplines look to answer those questions.

• I am drawn to the small (micro and nano scale)
• My questions are "why" and "what if"
• I am not interested in creating as much as thinking about  Though creating something might be a consequences of this process it is not the main driver.
• Basic research of applied application (these are not mutually exclusive)
• The fundamental questions

The fields that I find more or less to be narrowing in on are fields at the intersection of chemistry, physics, math, and molecular biology:

• Material Science and Engineering
• Molecular Sciences
• Biochemistry
• Biophysics
• Geometry

Here are some more pictures from the event: