Having a cytologist and a nuclear surgeon as parents I couldn’t help myself from growing up fascinated by sciences.
Every time that I could I’d sneaked in my parents’ working places to see how to use a microscope, individuate bacteria on a slide, how it worked a scintigraphy and the radioactive tracer injected into the patients and so on. I loved to go with them at the hospital to look at the laboratory technicians, or to stop in the X-Ray rooms trying to figure out which part of the body there was on the diaphanoscope and what was wrong with it. I always enjoyed so much spending my spare time growing plants, practicing little excavations, preparing slides to look in my microscope, collecting insects and bones found during my hiking. Growing up there was a new ‘thing’ catching my …show more content…
One day I was in front of my mum’s library staring at the shelves trying to find something interesting to borrow and I came across Kathy Reichs’ series Bones. After reading all the novels I started reading forensics sciences related articles and I began looking for an undergraduate course of forensic sciences in Italy but no universities offer that course.
Once I decided to study in the UK, a country for which I have an affective attachment as well, I had to consider my economic situation - that wasn’t the best - and my English – that wasn’t good enough - so I started working as a head groom-rider and stable manager in different countries. In two years I lived and worked around the world, spending a whole year between the UK and New Zealand meeting and sharing my life with people with different cultures, life paths, habits, etc.
During these years I continued studying and reading and I followed on-line courses on the FutureLearn and edX platforms about biology, genetics, cancer, nuclear and renewable energies, forensic psychology and forensic anthropology. I also followed podcasts on criminal minds and crime
Every time that I could I’d sneaked in my parents’ working places to see how to use a microscope, individuate bacteria on a slide, how it worked a scintigraphy and the radioactive tracer injected into the patients and so on. I loved to go with them at the hospital to look at the laboratory technicians, or to stop in the X-Ray rooms trying to figure out which part of the body there was on the diaphanoscope and what was wrong with it. I always enjoyed so much spending my spare time growing plants, practicing little excavations, preparing slides to look in my microscope, collecting insects and bones found during my hiking. Growing up there was a new ‘thing’ catching my …show more content…
One day I was in front of my mum’s library staring at the shelves trying to find something interesting to borrow and I came across Kathy Reichs’ series Bones. After reading all the novels I started reading forensics sciences related articles and I began looking for an undergraduate course of forensic sciences in Italy but no universities offer that course.
Once I decided to study in the UK, a country for which I have an affective attachment as well, I had to consider my economic situation - that wasn’t the best - and my English – that wasn’t good enough - so I started working as a head groom-rider and stable manager in different countries. In two years I lived and worked around the world, spending a whole year between the UK and New Zealand meeting and sharing my life with people with different cultures, life paths, habits, etc.
During these years I continued studying and reading and I followed on-line courses on the FutureLearn and edX platforms about biology, genetics, cancer, nuclear and renewable energies, forensic psychology and forensic anthropology. I also followed podcasts on criminal minds and crime