Articles
Researchers and Their Stories
The six years of my PhD life were the best ones in my academic life, thanks to my PhD supervisor. I grew every day, not just as an academic but also as a person. What I…
- Bijoyini Mukherjee
- February 4, 2020
As such the difficulties and variables in the project were tough to deal with; my supervisor’s behavior added unnecessary ambiguity and uncertainty to the situation,…
I was blessed to find a great guide... She was a strong source of support and guidance for me throughout, lifting my spirits when I was demotivated, sharing her…
- Aparna Yerramilli
- January 23, 2020
We were expecting to observe fascinating never-before visualized evidence for protein folding, but a tragedy in my personal life changed everything.
- Santosh Kumar CM
- January 22, 2020
Before I started my research, words like humility, gratitude, and resilience had been just that – words. My PhD journey drew on unknown and uncharted depths of strengths…
- Swati Mankad
- January 21, 2020
My research life began at the end of my junior year. I chose the laboratory I was going to work at because I heard the professor say, “If you join my laboratory, you can…
- Kazushi Noro
- January 17, 2020
My professional and research journeys that have spanned over 23 years have been atypical. How so? I went from being an engineer to a professor and then acquiring a PhD –…
- Sunao Sugihara
- January 15, 2020
When I look back at my life, given the struggles I had to endure, I feel that getting a PhD degree was not my biggest achievement. My biggest achievement was that I…
The students of the program found out that due to some administrative restrictions, they would not be able to travel to Greece…all students, except one – me! I was…
At that point, I thought that it was the plateau of my career in terms of the academic profession… but I was wrong.
- Marcelino Lunag Jr
- November 29, 2019