#6 The turn of the century photonics star – Meint Smit

Bingo - a game in which you choose numbers and wait for the lottery pick to announce the winning combo. How is a research project similar to playing bingo? More about it in this episode. If you are...

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Practice makes a PhD ninja. The woman who inspired the term "PhD ninja" lives up to that title to this day. More about it in this episode. What else defines a PhD ninja that is not covered in this e...

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Call it crazy, insane, impossible – PhDs are ninjas. As you master the art of uncovering your drivers and aspirations, you’ll realize your capacity exceeds your current visions. Take it from my examp...

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Expectations we put on ourselves for measuring performance during the PhD are often goal-oriented. Rarely do we use these expectations to motivate us to become the person who is X and Y. Who is capab...

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Mathematics, physics, astronomy, science journalism, and science for children. Margriet van der Heijden is a particle physicist by education. During her PhD research, she worked for four years at CER...

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One night stand or a long-term relationship? How do you approach your relationship with your supervisor? Expecting to get everything, giving anything in return? Getting a PhD title has a lot to do ...

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Fear often stops us from expressing what we want: asking for a talk with our professor because we feel lost at a certain point in our research, feedback on the paper that we started, setting up regula...

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Aleksandra Vancevska, PhD is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Francis Crick Institute in London where she is investigating DNA damage response in search of next-generation chemotherapeutics in th...

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