 Hi Professor Dame Sooblake, how are you doing today? I'm doing very well, thank you. Oh, well we're really excited to have you here at LIYC. Why don't we start with you telling us a bit about yourself? So I'm a human anatomist and I'm a forensic anthropologist and human anatomy is about identification of the human form and the forensic anthropology is translating that into investigation into the courtroom. Wow, that sounds pretty cool. What's it like being a forensic anthropologist? Think you can sum it up in three words? Challenging, exciting and rewarding. So what does a usual workday look like for you then? Ah, now there's a question. There is no usual workday. So I sit in my office and then the phone goes and when the phone goes you don't know where you're going to be. Are you going to be in a car somewhere down the road or the motorway? Is it going to be tickets for an airport? It's whenever the case emerges that we have to just leap into action. Sounds like a really interesting lie. So what leads you to pursue forensic anthropology? Well, I started as an anatomist and in that that was really about studying the human form and I wanted to translate it into something real world and the first case I did was during my PhD and then once I'd done that, I was just hooked. What's been the highlight of your career so far? I would say that there have been many highlights but probably the one that's most memorable for me is the work that I did in Kosovo in the war crimes investigations. It's a scenery that just assaults every sense that you possibly have. It's what you see, it's what you smell, it's what you hear and it's the whole emotion that's involved in something as dramatic as that that's playing out on a world stage. Wow, that's pretty incredible. Wish we had more time to hear about it. If you could solve one philosophical question in your lifetime, what would it be? Oh, it would have to be the big one, wouldn't it? Because it's got to be, why are we here? That's a good one. This is your first time at evening at LIYSF, right? How are you finding it? It is my first time here and I must admit when I came into the building, the first time I've been in the building, there was an enormous buzz and I don't just mean the noise because there was really a lot of rehearsals going on but there's an excitement, there's a free zone of electricity as well. I think it's going to be a fantastic day. So we're just about to go into the opening ceremony soon. What are you most looking forward to about it? I'm looking forward to the diversity, seeing so many people from so many places around the world all coming together to consider science and the way forward with science. It's a great opportunity and just something I've not experienced before. LIYSF is all about the next generation of scientists. Why do you think exposure to STEM is important for young people? I think that the sooner you can become exposed to science in many ways, the better. So if I look back in my career, I think about going back to with my father. My father would go out and shoot to him. He would bring home rabbits for the pot and I would help him skin rabbits. So if you go far enough back, you can see that your influences happen probably earlier than many of us even think. So the sooner we can introduce science, there's not something to be afraid of but something that is really embedded in our young people then I think we've got the best chance to create the next group of scientists that we need. Before you head off to give your lecture, do you have any advice for budding forensic anthropologists? So I think for forensic anthropology, you probably need to be an anatomist first. You do need to understand the human body but you also are a scientist and in being a scientist, although we might want to solve every single case that comes our way, do you know we can't do that? And the most important thing we have to be as a scientist is impartial and unbiased and trust in the science to give us the answers that we're looking for. Thanks so much for your time, Professor Dane Seublake. It was really good to check to you. It's my pleasure, thank you.