Getting a PhD: My life as a candidate
I’m Lachlan Marnoch, and I’m on my way to a PhD in astrophysics. What this means is that I’ll be spending the next three years researching a very specific scientific niche, and then composing a monstrous piece of writing that describes all of the useful work that I’ve done. Tune in to this tale of discovery and human endeavour, and I'll fill you in on my experiences, the science of what I’m studying, and how many tears I've shed along the way.
Me at the Very Large Telescope, Paranal Observatory. Photo by Stuart Ryder.