• Question: why do you think your research is important to know?

    Asked by emmasaur to Hannah, Daniela on 20 Jun 2013. This question was also asked by radsare1005.
    • Photo: Daniela Plana

      Daniela Plana answered on 20 Jun 2013:

      Hi emmasaur,

      I think the things that I (and the people in my lab… it’s always group work in science really!) do are important to know, because everyone should be concerned with the environment and how our use of energy affects it. We work on finding alternative ways of producing energy/electricity that do not contaminate (or at least not as much as the way we do things now) and also on transforming green house gases (the ones that cause climate change) into useful things instead… all of this is important not just to us, but to everyone, because we all use energy and we should all take care of our planet!

      Hope that makes sense!
      Daniela

    • Photo: Hannah Brotherton

      Hannah Brotherton answered on 21 Jun 2013:

      Hi emmasaur,
      My research looks at how our brain not only creates sounds, but how it works following hearing loss. Not much is known how our brain copes with hearing loss, but my research and others found the brain starts to work a bit too much. It knows something has happened and it starts to work in panic mode.
      Too much brain activity creates sounds, which we know as ringing in the ears. If I can find out what causes the brain to over work, where it is ‘panic’ I find a cure for ringing in the ears, but I can also help treat other hearing problems such as hearing normal sounds as too loud.
      My research can also help other research looking into how the brain overworks in other areas like seeing.

      So my research and what experiments I use will not only find a cure for ringing in the ears, but will help research in years to come for other parts of the brain.

      😀

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