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Pitch Movie: Plant and Soil Metabolome in a Warming Subarctic
@ArgusPesqueda (ESR8) presents how he communicates with plants. Watch the video!
Pitch Movie: The Functional Rhizobiome in Warming Graslands
Biplabi Bhattarai @biplabi26 (ESR3) presents why she wants to reveal the mysteries of the hidden half of the ecosystem - roots. Watch the video!
Pitch Movie: Microbiome Physiology and Microbial Interactions
Dennis Metze @MetzeDennis (ESR4) presents why and how he studies soil microbes and their response to climate change. Watch the video!
Pitch Movie: Plant Phenology and Plant Stress Evolution
Phoebe Tchana Wandji @phoebe_ruth215 (ESR7) presents why she studies plant growth in warmed grasslands in Iceland. Watch the video!
Pitch Movie: Microbiome Structure of Warmed Grassland
Coline Le Noir de Carlan (ESR1) presents her research in 1 minute. Watch the video!
Meet Samer Nasser (ESR11)
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 Art of Living in The New Normal!
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
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,...
Rethinking expectations and personal definitions
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
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...
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