#22 How can you influence your PhD supervisor?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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