{"id":225,"date":"2020-08-06T11:21:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T01:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/hdr-students\/?p=225"},"modified":"2020-08-06T11:21:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T01:51:56","slug":"dr-benjamin-chambers-why-a-phd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/hdr-students\/2020\/08\/06\/dr-benjamin-chambers-why-a-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Benjamin Chambers &#8211; Why a PhD?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-242 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/hdr-students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2020\/07\/Ben-Chambers-1-3-255x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/hdr-students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2020\/07\/Ben-Chambers-1-3-255x300.jpg 255w, https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/hdr-students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2020\/07\/Ben-Chambers-1-3-768x903.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/hdr-students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2020\/07\/Ben-Chambers-1-3-871x1024.jpg 871w, https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/hdr-students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2020\/07\/Ben-Chambers-1-3.jpg 1304w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><strong>Dr. Benjamin Chambers<\/strong><br \/>\nElectron and Ion Scattering Spectroscopy Facility Manager<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flinders.edu.au\/microscopy\">Flinders Microscopy and MicroAnalysis<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nCollege of Science and Engineering<br \/>\nPhysical Sciences<\/p>\n<p>Ben completed his PhD in 2018 and started working at Flinders Microscopy and MicroAnalysis in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>His PhD research explored the characterisation of 2 dimensional materials (only one atom thick) using a combination of unique instrumentation available at Flinders University. He spent most of his time using metastable induced electron spectroscopy (MIES), one of the instruments he now manages!<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Ben has successfully measured quantitatively the electronic structure of two-dimensional materials which is highly relevant for using these materials in new generation electronic devices.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>We asked Ben to share with us his thoughts on his study pathway;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI originally considered the PhD to be the natural progression in my learning. Having finished my PhD I can now look back at the experience and recommend it for different reasons.<br \/>\nThroughout school I studied to impress my parents, throughout my undergraduate studies I began to learn for myself and develop my own knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>I studied Honours to then apply my knowledge towards a project predetermined by my supervisors.<\/p>\n<p>The PhD experience has been the most valuable as I learned to find and explore the gaps in existing knowledge and develop my own ways to investigate these.<br \/>\nThis is ultimately where I gained my confidence in not only applying knowledge but exploring it. A skill I believe can be applied to all areas in life!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Benjamin Chambers Electron and Ion Scattering Spectroscopy Facility Manager Flinders Microscopy and MicroAnalysis College of Science and Engineering Physical Sciences Ben completed his PhD in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2610,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,224],"tags":[1178],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hdr","category-hdr-students-in-focus","tag-dr-benjamin-chambers"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/hdr-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/hdr-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/hdr-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/hdr-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/hdr-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/hdr-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/hdr-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/hdr-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/hdr-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}