Blog: About us

  • Life management – Part 2

    by: in: About us, Educationon March 8, 2017

    To be successful in managing/leading a family or a team, a very important thing is to be able to talk things out properly – problems, wishes or simply emotions. So here I go, and share some of the situations from home which allow me to develop stronger communication skills.

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  • Are you up to the challenge?

    by: in: About us, Educationon November 28, 2016

    Recently I came across some blogs where people were asking for suggestions on what to do at the end of their PhD studies. Besides the evergreen question about moving to industry or not, another dilemma was whether to stay in one’s current research field for a post-doctoral appointment (you can find an interesting article here). I thought I would share my experience as a (freshly) graduated PhD student in this blog.

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  • Life management – Part 1

    by: in: About us, Educationon September 20, 2016

    After a timeout with my family for a year, I am happy to have the opportunity to work as a scientific lab manager again. Here I’m going to share some of my experiences I take from home to be more efficient at work.

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  • Hello World!

    by: in: About uson February 19, 2016

    As the saying goes, publish or perish. Certainly, this applies not to blog entries, but to journal papers, which we do write, and perhaps you have read. And if you do read our papers (or publications from any group, for that matter), you see the end result of years of research, presented in a factual, sometimes (often?) dry manner. What you don’t see are the sweat and tears of the people who carried out the work. What you don’t see are the small things that never make it into the papers, but could be of use to you, could make you think or even make you smile.

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