My love for marine life started from watching documentaries about the ocean and its creatures and having trips to the sea every now and then with my family from a young age, and that in a way stirred my interest towards marine biology. I’ve grown to appreciate this discipline and yearn to learn even more about it; and experience it as a whole. My honours in Ichthyology and fisheries science allowed me the chance to broaden my knowledge on fish physiology, climate change and the effects of exploitation, as I looked at the response of exploited fish population to temperature extremes. There’s still so much more that I’ll love to learn and experience and I’m looking forward to this journey.