My journey from academia to Google

TL;DR Chemistry, materials science, physics, and then tech, because that is where the change is happening right now.

I studied chemistry, then materials science, then physics, because I was passionate about science. Somewhere along the way I noticed where the change was really happening: in tech.

So I followed it. This is the short version of how a lab person ended up at Google, and why I don't think of it as leaving science at all.