Suze Kundu: A New Pair Of Shoes
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2015
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Suze Kundu is forced to abandon dancing for materials science, until materials science comes to the rescue. Suze Kundu is a Teaching Fellow at Imperial College London, where she shares her love of Materials Science and Engineering with anyone that will stand still for long enough. In addition she presents many Outreach and Public Engagement workshops and demo lectures, and pops up on TV fairly regularly, getting excited about everything from aerogel to zirconia. She is also fresh off the stage from Irreverent Dance's annual Showcase, where she danced as a zombie scientist, a Time Lord and a girl obsessed with the glitz and glamour of Strictly Come Dancing - #typecasting?
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:06.0 | I felt... |
| 0:07.0 | I felt... |
| 0:08.0 | I was so... |
| 0:09.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:13.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:19.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring your true personal stories about science. |
| 0:29.0 | This week's story is from Sue's Kandu. |
| 0:31.5 | The story was recorded in November 2014 at the Book Club in London. |
| 0:41.3 | Uh, 2014 at the book club in London. Hello, good evening. So from the drop in the microphone, you will know that I'm a |
| 0:46.3 | nanochemist, quite tiny. I've also been billed as a dancer tonight, and I will get to that in a |
| 0:52.9 | moment. So yes, I'm Suze and I love making lists. |
| 0:57.2 | I make lists of the chores that I have to do. I make lists of different projects I have going on. |
| 1:03.0 | I have been known to make lists of lists. And this kind of list making kind of got to me a bit |
| 1:09.4 | because every list had a deadline and that was quite stressful. |
| 1:12.7 | So I decided during my PhD I would make a happy list. |
| 1:16.8 | A list of good things. |
| 1:18.9 | A list of 101 things to do and see and learn in my life. |
| 1:23.7 | I don't like to call it a bucket list because I feel like that's a bit too morbid. |
| 1:27.9 | And there is a literal deadline at the end of it, which I didn't really like. |
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