Question: Why did you want to become a forensic scientist?

James Streetley answered on 3 Jun 2019:

I think I didn’t really have an idea of how science was used outside of school until I saw programs like CSI in the early 2000s. The logical nature really appealed to me, even then.

But I decided not to specialise into forensic science at university and instead study biochemistry, thinking I could always switch later on. But then I got so side-tracked and really interested in structural biology (what the shapes of the individual proteins that make us are), so that’s what I studied more about and now what I work on. My goals kept changing as I learnt more about what possibilities there are.