Question: What is the most important thing you hope to accomplish in your field?

Charlotte Slade answered on 17 Mar 2025:

The most important thing I hope to accomplish? Making scientific tools that help solve real-world challenges – and making those tools accessible to researchers everywhere. 🔬

It’s not about creating the fanciest instrument. It’s about developing technologies that could:
• Help design more efficient solar panels
• Enable better battery technologies
• Support medical researchers in developing targeted treatments
• Make complex scientific analysis possible for labs with limited resources

My ultimate goal? Democratizing scientific discovery.

Right now, cutting-edge research often depends on expensive equipment that only big labs can afford. I want to change that. I want a researcher in a small university in a developing country to have the same analytical capabilities as someone in a massive, well-funded institution.

It’s about removing barriers. About showing that brilliant scientific minds exist everywhere – they just need the right tools.

Every time we make a breakthrough that makes scientific analysis more accessible, more affordable, more precise – that’s a win. Not just for me or my team, but for global scientific progress.

Science isn’t a competition. It’s a collaborative journey of human curiosity. And I want to make that journey possible for as many people as possible. ✨

Basically, I’m here to make sure no good idea gets left behind because of limited resources.