Moving on! (from PhD to Postdoc, that is)
Almost 4 years after arriving in Aberdeen, I successfully defended my thesis on the 6th July, with only a few typos to correct. Dr Pierre Bize from the University of Aberdeen and Jean-Michel Gaillard from Claude Bernard University Lyon were my internal and external...
6th IRSAE Summer School – Scientific Communication
Earlier this year I received an email about the IRSAE summer school 2015. Even though I was an IRSAE member, I had never met any of the other members so going to a summer school and spending a week with a number of strangers sounded terrifying and exciting at the same...
Capture-recapture course in Mallorca
My PhD fellows and I applied for the capture-recapture course not least for the beautiful location in Esporles, Mallorca, which is a UNESCO world heritage site. The course was held from 24th to 28th of November 2014 at the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies...
A two-day ‘Scientific Writing workshop’
This two-day course at Evenstad (Hedmark University College, Norway; 6-7 November 2014) was led by Dr. Brian Cusack (Science Craft, Germany). Ten PhD students from four different IRSAE institutions were gathered with (in my case) high expectations: I hoped for good...
Course/workshop announcement
It is holiday time and many of you are roasting on a beach somewhere "til syden". Yet, 2 new courses open to IRSAE students are coming up this fall: First, a course in Scientific Writing which will be held at Hedmark University College, Campus Evenstad, Norway, on...