Why I got a PhD at age 61: How a chance meeting at a scientific retreat took Zoltán Kócsi from the electronics industry to the entomology lab
about work that I had done on a microscopy image-analysis program for an Alzheimer’s disease researcher. But when you sport a silver mane, it gets harder to move out of your comfort zone.
Also, commercial engineers design products to meet standards and specifications. You aim for reliability and minimal cost. You test ideas when you can, but more often than not, you play it safe: failure is not an option. But in basic science, failure is an option — and, with a bit of luck, you can get a paper out of it.My research focuses on the neural basis of insects’ visual navigation.
Our prototype ‘Antarium’, which cost around US$35,000, is a metre-wide polyhedron bristling with electronics. I designed the prototype, sourced the components, organized manufacturing, wrote the control software and debugged the electronics. It worked, but it had some serious limitations.
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