There are any ways to end up with a PhD positions, here are a few of my hints and tips from me. They are UK-centred and might contain more science flavours due to my own background, Note that these tips are based on personal experience and are (by far) not exhaustive. Use them at your…

Just as I summarise my favourite books of 2020 I also want to highlight some excellent scientific papers I read this year. Some might have been published earlier than 2020, some of them are peer-reviewed, some of them come from Arxiv. The five papers I have selected cover various levels of technicality, but all are…

Was ist die effektive Reproduktionszahl? Nach fast einem Jahr Pandemie hat ein breiter Teil der Bevölkerung Grundkenntnisse der Epidemiologie erlangt. Dabei ist die effektive Reproduktionszahl (R) eine besonders bei Politikerinnen und Politikern beliebte und leicht interpretierbare Kennzahl. Sie gibt an, wie viele Personen durchschnittlich von einer Infizierten angesteckt werden. Liegt R beispielsweise bei 1,5 so…

In 2020 I co-founded the Piscopia Initiative to encourage women and non-binary participation in mathematical postgraduate research. We were planning a big two day conference in Edinburgh for September 2020, but like everyone else we had to move it online. I want to share my personal four most important learnings that made our online conference…

The start of a PhD can be daunting, but luckily you are not alone! Here are 8 Tips to get you going! These tips are focused on mathematical research, but most of them will apply to a variety of disciplines. For more great tips and insights check out some Twitter accounts like “PhD Diaries“. Note:…

In January 2020 I co-founded the Piscopia Initiative to encourage women and non-binary participation in mathematical research across the UK. Read here about my motives. As a student I am constantly surrounded by advertisements for different outreach schemes for PhDs, focusing on a variety of subgroups, disciplines, and locations. However, they all are based on…

Recently, a friend of mine shared an article by the Harvard Business Review on the different application strategies of men and women: While men apply to a job when they meet around 60% of the criteria mentioned in the advert, women only apply if they are 100% qualified! The article then carefully explains how women…

The recent Corona pandemic is a world-wide catastrophe, impacting every aspect of our lives. As a PhD student in Statistics, I want to share some thought on how this crisis could substantially change the way we do Data Science in a post-corona world. While these aspects are minuscule in comparison to the humanitarian crises we…