Question: Are you currently happy with work you have done and are currently doing?

Paul Matusz answered on 6 Nov 2018:

Hi Isla,

Thanks for your question. I can definitely consider myself lucky, as I have obtained several grants to carry out my work on how we pay attention to multisensory stimuli and how this shapes education and rehabilitation of visual skills in children; one of these grants is paying my salary, for at least the next 3 years, and a couple other grants are paying salaries of a team that works with me. Many scientists of my age and academic experience are already lectureres, but this means that a chunk (smaller, but usually larger) of their time is devoted to teaching and a lot less (than me) to doing research. So I get to spend time with pepole doing extremely cool research – using virtual reality to help elderly stay fit, people investigating if people without limbs can feel pain in those limbs, people stuyding how animals communicate, etc. etc. This is very exicting, and often makes me feel like “sky is the limit” with my and our research and that makes me feel very inspired. 🙂