Meet Samer Nasser (ESR11)

Nov 25, 2021

Hi everyone! My name is Samer Nasser, I am from Antwerp, Belgium, and I am very glad to introduce myself as the latest addition to this interesting group of PhD students. I just finished my master’s degree this summer at the University of Antwerp. Unlike most of the...

The Art of Living in The New Normal!

Apr 29, 2021

By Vaidehi Narsingh (imec, Belgium) Beginning your doctoral journey is an academic adventure, especially if you are moving to a new city. As, I was settling my life in this time zone, learning Dutch, finding accommodation, and the ‘culture shock’ in general, the...

Amir’s struggle

Apr 19, 2021

By Amir Hamedpour (Svarmi, Iceland) Hi, since this is my first blog post I want to introduce myself and talk about all of the things that happened to me during this one year. My name is Amir Hamedpour, I am from a beautiful city in Iran called Tabriz and currently, I...

Rethinking expectations and personal definitions

Mar 30, 2021

By Dennis Metze (University of Vienna) March 24, 2021. It’s another day working from home and the sun is shining through my window. My laptop is on my desk next to a few plants and a lot of sticky notes on the wall in the background. I have just created a word...

A year in retrospective

Mar 18, 2021

By Fabrizzio Protti (University of Innsbruck) While writing this, I realized that it has been exactly a year since I started my PhD journey. A year marked by new experiences, steep learning curves, and challenges. As all we know, 2020 was defined by the Covid...