In my third year at Southampton, I saw a job advert for someone with a ‘technical degree but a creative flair’. It was for the computer graphics department at ITN, the news provider for ITV.

After three years, I moved into journalism and once I’d travelled the world with ITN I moved to the BBC.

My current job is Moscow Correspondent, and sure enough my Physics degree was very helpful when reporting from Chernobyl earlier this year.

Scientists are a rarity in the world of news and being someone who actually understands mathematics, science and statistics is a great asset.