{"id":750,"date":"2019-07-08T10:12:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T22:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/brooker\/?page_id=750"},"modified":"2019-07-08T10:12:53","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T22:12:53","slug":"william-pelet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/brooker\/william-pelet\/","title":{"rendered":"William Pelet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>William Pelet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Current position <\/strong>(2019-present): Scientist at Syft Technologies in Christchurch<\/p>\n<p><strong>BSc (Hons):<\/strong> Otago University (2015-2018); research project supervisor Sally Brooker<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/brooker\/files\/2019\/04\/20181005_102837-Alice-Sally-William.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-732\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/brooker\/files\/2019\/04\/20181005_102837-Alice-Sally-William-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/brooker\/files\/2019\/04\/20181005_102837-Alice-Sally-William-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/brooker\/files\/2019\/04\/20181005_102837-Alice-Sally-William-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/brooker\/files\/2019\/04\/20181005_102837-Alice-Sally-William-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/brooker\/files\/2019\/04\/20181005_102837-Alice-Sally-William-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo: William (right) after handing in his Honours dissertation.<\/p>\n<p>Hi I\u2019m William Pelet and I joined Sally\u2019s group to complete my BSc(Hons) in 2018. I had a fantastic time in her diverse group, which boasted students from around the world. This always made for interesting conversation, new techniques and a broad spectrum of skill-sets. It is a group that has a great balance between freedom of research and direction when required, which helped me to grow as a scientist that was confident in making well informed and efficient decisions. I learned the fundamentals of chemistry and the scientific method in depth in Sally\u2019s lab which is a testament to her leadership and group.<\/p>\n<p>The skills learned in my time in the Brooker Bunch are all relevant to my current job at Syft Technologies. As a scientist in industry, I need to be able to make informed, justified and commercially viable decisions, while explaining myself to co-workers and clients that may not come from a science background. I genuinely feel that my time in Sally\u2019s group equipped me with these required skills, which made the transition from academia to industry smooth. I would highly recommend interested students, who are keen to be busy and work hard while also having a great time, to join Sally\u2019s group. I\u2019m very grateful for my experience at Otago University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Pelet Current position (2019-present): Scientist at Syft Technologies in Christchurch BSc (Hons): Otago University (2015-2018); research project supervisor Sally Brooker Photo: William (right) after handing in his Honours dissertation. Hi I\u2019m William Pelet and I joined Sally\u2019s group to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18270,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-750","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/brooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/brooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/brooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/brooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/brooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/brooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/brooker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}