How COVID-19 affected my research career
Picking a topic for this blog article really was a struggle. I had so many different ideas – a typical day in Ph.D. life, the experiences of working in a multicultural and international environment, moving to a foreign country, living abroad, cultural diversity, … . But then I thought: why not talk about the world’s…
My PhD in a Research Institution
People often associate PhD life with an academic career. While you need a university to award you with a PhD title, it doesn’t mean that you strictly have to carry out your research inside the university. But choosing a PhD can be a gruesome task, because you never know if it’s going to be a…
Across the world for a PhD
To become an ESR in the ITN Windmill project, I left my job and life in Brazil and moved to Germany. Today I will my PhD travel story by explaining how the moving process was, what cultural differences, weather challenges, and languages I had to adjust to and how the adaptation went. I will also…
How I became an Early Stage Researcher
My name is Cristian and I am one of the 15 ESRs of the ITN WindMill Project. I get asked a lot what my job is and how I got it, so I will try to explain it in this article. When I was a B.Sc. student, I was lost in the face of so…