#16 Project proposal vs project execution
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...
6 Sep 202314min
#15 PhD ninja
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...
1 Sep 202322min
#14 Having 4 jobs at the same time
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...
15 Aug 202321min
#13 PhD as direction, not a destination
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...
5 Aug 202315min
#12 Particle physicist and science journalist - Margriet van der Heijden
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...
5 Aug 202348min
#11 Relationship building: PhD + supervisor
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 ...
4 Aug 202315min
#10 Asking for what you need during your PhD
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...
4 Jun 202310min
#9 The intuitive and the rational - Aleksandra Vancevska
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...
30 Apr 20231h 21min
