Research is something i really enjoy,
because it is something that is not (at least initially) a clear cut thing.
You can start off with something even you don't know if its worth the effort
(but of course you should be a good spin doctor, to get a grant for the
proposal) and you could end up with a totally new idea.
Also research is something where
you can let your imagination fly. Basically, if you want to become a good
researcher, you better be a good dreamer. Because according to me, some
of the research ideas are so weird that the person responsible could have
only dreamt of it. And if the dream looks anything close to practical (here
`practical' is a highly relative term) it becomes a starting point for
future publications.
Those are a few of my conceptions
of research and I haven't yet started dreaming (i mean, the geeky type),
so I don't have any publications yet to show up for myself.
Apart from my thoughts on research, areas I'm interested and enjoy working in: