Question: does your work help the lives of people all around the world?

Konstantinos Drousiotis answered on 3 Nov 2016:

Hi there,

This was one of the reasons that make me wanting to study science; to try and make an impact in people’s lives. However, another reason I wanted to do science is try to help keep our planet able to host us, humans. The project I am undertaking during my PhD, will help make the use of plants as biofuels (more) possible. The main aim of my studies is to find those systems in bacteria that are best suited to find and grab the sugars that are found in the plants to be used to create biofuels. This way the bacteria become super-bacteria able to cut down plants and eat them up and then produce biofuels.

Thus, new methodologies to produce energy lower our addiction as humanity of using non-renewable sources of fuels such as petroleum! Therefore, the planet becomes less polluted, the ozone layer becomes healthier and thicker, less endangered species, more temperature stability and therefore keeping this planet alive and healthy. Even though, it’s not directly helping people that currently are alive, it is about helping the next generations to come.