• Question: What you most proud moment in your career so far

    Asked by anon-277135 to William, Rachel, Michael, Manuel, Fabian, Elena on 18 Jan 2021.
    • Photo: Michael Nolan

      Michael Nolan answered on 18 Jan 2021:

      Oh, tough question!
      Unfortunately I cannot come up with one answer:
      – getting first research grant
      – getting my permanent researcher position
      – seeing first PhD student graduate and move to a cool job
      – getting the contract for my professor position

    • Photo: William Smith

      William Smith answered on 18 Jan 2021:

      Agree – this is a tricky one to answer! Maybe I’ll pick two:
      – seeing something I’ve researched being used in the real world in a piece of technology
      – when one of my PhD students passes their “viva” (to pass your PhD you have to do a tough oral exam called a “viva” where two examiners question you for hours about what’s in your thesis!)

    • Photo: Fabian Grosse

      Fabian Grosse answered on 19 Jan 2021:

      Hard to tell, I’d say it was my very first publication. In retrospect, later publications may have been better but by that time I had just finished my Master’s degree and it was kind of my first widely visible step into the academic world.

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