1) I have been involved in various nanotechnology incubators.  As an engineer interested in implementation or production, I try to keep up with the realm of nanotoolworks or tooling, instrumentation and equipment for mfg engineering applications of nanotechnology.
2) I am extremely interested in all kinds of work in the virtual realm, to minimize resources/time wasted building things that do not work. Computational material science is currently my strong interest in the virtual realm. Obviously, being able to do that a serious level requires mastery of skills in using massive scientific computing resources, so just become more savvy about the use of computational resources is kind of a precursor to actually getting very deep into the Chemistry or Physics of it.
3) Like everyone else, I am fascinated by space exploration. Specifically, in my case, I am interested in quantum life, which involves things like building Dyson swarms and the engineering of self-replicating autonomous systems for Dyson swarming ... for radiation sensing and harvesting radiation to power quantum compute, to study things like particle collisions on a galactic scale so that we might extend science much deeper nature of the laws/principles of Physics and perhaps to enable/power universal scale terraforming to expand the range of life.