As I traveled back from the last conference this year, I reflect on each of the 4 conferences/summer schools of the last 12 months, comparing and contrasting my take home from this year of travel and talks. Here’s my take on my recent conference experiences… This year (Sep 2016-Sep 2017)[…]
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Researcher Ramblings: Why the Sun Matters!
It’s 15.46. The lights are on. I sit at my office table looking at my ToDo list. Is this going to be one of those monologues like ‘I’m stuck in this abyss and I’m documenting it so someone knows how my last hours were spent’? Probably! Winter blues are best[…]
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Researcher Life: Of Supervisors and Supervising
As PhDs, we are in a complicated position. We are getting the highest degree possible, but still at the start of our careers. We are learning to deal with our superiors, while having (in most cases) students looking up to us for their Bachelor/ Masters projects. If you are working[…]
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Researcher Life: The Storm
Yes, it’s here. After the long wait, the storm has started. Honestly speaking, I started writing a blog post last week, right before the onset of the Storm, and I could never finish it! So this week, thankfully to the end of my storm, is a new post – all[…]
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Researcher Life : The Wait
A curious phenomenon researchers go through is what I call ‘the Wait’. As a researcher you are expected to solve a million problems. You are usually on a go-go-go schedule. Every now and then though, there is a problem that you can not immediately solve. You can collect all the[…]
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Researcher Ramblings: Researcher-Like-Thinking
So far I have focused on a researcher’s life. This new series of posts titled ‘researcher ramblings’, are my views and perspectives of my life as a researcher. This first post has demanded a lot of introspection! I was on a nice vacation last week! Through all this free time[…]
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Researcher Life: 50 Shades of Research
If you type ‘researcher’ in Google images, this is what you get. Sorry to let you down Google. It’s not so fancy, or so easy. This post is all about the roles of a researcher. My blog will clearly be biased to what I do, but some of these elements[…]
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