The coolest part of my job is the level of responsibility and autonomy I have in completing my work. A lot of the work I have undertaken has a direct effect on taxpayers, and my decisions are trusted and enforced.
Some substances we use in our experiments are potentially harmful to human health and the environment, and so we need to use them in a safe and controlled manner.
There is a tension between conceptual purity and pragmatic implementation of statistics that must be negotiated and interpreted by the analyst, which I find both challenging and interesting.
Alicia Terranova studied Bachelor of Aerospace Engineering/ Bachelor of Science (Astrophysics & Mathematics) at Monash University in 2016 and is now Platform Systems Engineer at Department of Defence.
I work with the Law Design and Practice (LDP) financial advisor group. My role requires delivering financial resource management activities to enable the delivery of organisational priorities.