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First we collect the samples. Then the lab breaks it down to the cellular level. The computer turns the samples into a huge set of values. And then I turn it into this.

My name is Fia Sabrina Boedijono. I'm a bioinformatics research assistant at UTS.

So I grew up in Surabaya, in the East Java province of Indonesia, and I really love studying science and I knew I wanted to do a forensics degree. But at the time, the closest place that offer it, it was just UTS. And so I applied to UTS, and I came here when I was 17. I used to get lost by myself and find different routes around the city, and I was much more shy and isolated then. I didn't really go to a lot of social events, and I was very happy in my own company.

In my final year, I had the chance to take an internship and I knew one of my subject coordinators; he's a genetics researcher and I always find genetics so interesting. And so I thought, “you know what, I'll give it a go,” and I emailed him and he responded: “Yeah, cool, we can start.”

It took me so long to really understand pretty much anything that was happening in the meetings. But when you're in a real working environment, you just absorb things pretty quickly. After I graduated my supervisor actually offered me a full time position and I've been doing research ever since.

When I first arrived at the UTS campus, I find the diversity to be really exhilarating. Like it blew my mind. The way they dress, the way people express themselves; it's beautiful that people are embracing different parts of themselves, and it allows me to be that way as well.

I haven't had the experience of being with people who accept me entirely for everything that I am. And so when I moved to Sydney and I did, I'm just like, wow, I'm so grateful to be here and just have all the people that I have in my life right now. I'm just excited to see how it goes, who I’m going to be and finally feel, yeah, I'm doing exactly what I'm supposed to be doing.