What is innovative about your research? How is your work distinct from your supervisor’s/principal investigator’s? How intellectually independent are you? What influences have you been exposed to? Do you think you have enough breadth of experience? Who has influenced you the most? What has been your role so far in developing research ideas and carrying them forward? What do you think are your most significant research accomplishments? What do you consider to be your best paper/work and why? What did it change about the way people approach the field?