After graduation, I had the chance to enjoy a long holiday in my home country, Greece, and dispel all the stress from the last year. “I am Vasilis and I recently completed my PhD in Physical Oceanography. She’s engaged in the CDR Mare and Carbon Drawdown projects. Contact her at on Twitter, LinkedIn or ResearchGate. If doing my PhD again, I would take more time to study and practice methodologies in related fields, and I would definitely be more confident in saying ‘no’.”Ĭurrently, Maria-Elena works as a Postdoc at the Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research researching olivine-dissolution in high-energy marine environments as a possible carbon dioxide removal method. They also helped me to handle several crises and not lose confidence in myself during hard times. The courses from Tress Academic helped me to shape my scientific profile and gain a valuable tool box of skills during and after the PhD. My PhD time helped me find out what I really want: No more talking, I combat the climate crisis! Luckily, my degree enables me to find science-based solutions which may have a measurable effect on atmospheric CO 2 concentrations and global temperature. After teachers had doubted my abilities in natural science and lecturers criticised my ambitions to go into academia, holding the PhD certificate in my hands was a big win. “The best experience in my PhD was when my first paper was cited because it gave me the feeling that my research brought significant information to the community. We hope that sharing these stories with you will boost your motivation to keep up the good work and keep moving ahead towards PhD completion. The stories of our students-passionate, dedicated, engaged, recent grads-made us very proud. Finally, we asked them to dish out one piece of advice for you regarding what they would do differently during their PhD in hindsight. We wanted them to share what it meant for them to gain a PhD, how it felt when they completed it, how attaining their degrees has changed their life, and how they felt we supported them in getting there. We asked a few of our best students to share their personal PhD success stories with you. Therefore, this post is all about sharing success. In this spirit, we’re also convinced that sharing a successful experience motivates others to move forward. If something works for the students on our courses, we bet it’ll work for you as well. What we share are strategies and techniques that we know will help you in your academic life. Sharing tips, checklists, and many “how-to”-guidelines and practical advice that you can apply in your life as a researcher is at the heart of what we post on the blog. Get a full thematic overview of all posts with our free Ultimate Smart Academics Survival Kit! We decided to write one weekly article about a topic that helps PhD students, Postdocs, Early-career researchers, etc., to develop their life and career in academia. When starting the Smart Academics Blog two and a half years ago, we wanted to create a forum where we could share experiences from our daily work supporting young academics in their career development. We’re immensely proud of it and we’re grateful for the supportive feedback we’ve received from many of our readers. Light the candles on the cake! Today, the Smart Academics Blog has its 100th birthday! No, it’s not 100 years, but today we release blog post #100. What they have to say is highly motivating and encouraging, and all five share their advice on what they would do differently in hindsight-there are some lessons to learn here! We hope that reading their stories will help you to move toward your own PhD completion. On this special occasion, we want to put the success of some of our previous students centre stage! Here, we’ll celebrate five researchers who successfully completed their PhD. It’s celebration time in the Smart Academics Blog office, as we mark post #100.
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