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0303/2011 (comments: 2)

This picture shows the kindergarten where Theo spends his day while his parents are at work.

Some more about how to combine being a scientist with enjoying a private life…

Fortunately I live in Rostock which has the locational advantage that the daycare of little babies is neither a moral nor a practical problem. It´s normal here that a woman has a full-time work and a little baby. Many women around you have the same problems as you and often reassure you when you run into daycare problems.

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0103/2011 (comments: 0)

This picture shows a state of the art mass spectrometer in my lab. Sometimes the lab requires you to work more than 8 hours a day , which may cause problems in combining both job and family life.

How to combine being a scientist with enjoying a private life…

Being a scientist means quite often having a long working day, lab-weekends, research cruises, science conferences and many weeks on board of research vessels or at partner institutes. But how can this be arranged with a family life?

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2802/2011 (comments: 0)

"Nghien Cuu Bien" is Vietnamese and means "protection of the environment" and was the name of our Vietnamese research vessel in the South China Sea project.

A reflection on how I got my own PhD project started…

Finding the right PhD theme is not so easy and during the two years after my diploma I learned that an ambitious project needs, besides an ambitious young scientist, a good funding...

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After the cruise is before the cruise!

What needs to be considered when moving abroad?

What kinds of skills are needed to become a scientist and what about my future plans?

Some more about how to combine being a scientist with enjoying a private life…

How to combine being a scientist with enjoying a private life…

A reflection on how I got my own PhD project started…

What kind of profession did I consider when I started university?

Has it always been my dream to become a marine biologist?

How important is it to travel for my work as a marine biologist?

My research field in short …

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