Her first job was as a Research Scientist at the John Innes Centre, Norwich where Melissa worked for 5 years researching natural product biochemistry. Analyze problems to develop solutions involving computer hardware and software. Here is a list of tasks that Computer and Information Research Scientists do every day.

Design computers and the software that runs them. If you need 10,000 machines, you can get them, if you want terabytes of data to … Melissa Salmon received a BSc in Biochemistry with first class honours at the University of East Anglia in 2006, followed by a PhD in Biochemistry, which she completed in 2010.

She spends most of her day mixing and heating chemicals to carry out reactions that form different drugs. She became passionate about protein engineering and …

Weekly and Monthly Tasks. But for a research scientist the biggest perk is computing resources. Here is a list of tasks that Computer and Information Research Scientists do on a weekly or monthly basis. A Day in the Life: Research Scientist, AstraZeneca Theresa Humphries, 28, is a research scientist in the Medicinal Chemistry department.