For several years I have been driving a very comfortable red car that has been baptised in my household Wasabi. Besides being red which...

A few weeks ago, my husband lost his father. I was not prepared for the death of my father in law. I was even less prepared to tell it to...

The idea is pretty simple. Throughout our process of data analysis, we tend to produce hundreds maybe thousands of plots. The starting...

A few days ago my father in law passed away. We knew he was not well, but the news of his death was a terrible shock on all of us. I...

“A Markov chain is a stochastic model describing a sequence of possible events in which the probability of each event depends only on...

A few weeks ago, I received an email from Kristiane Bernhard-Novotny, the CERN Courier associate editor,asking me if she could...

There are few things that I enjoy more in life than watching behind the scenes documentaries. Some of my favorites are the creation of a...

This year is the first time since quite a while that I am not taking a holiday. I did not have a winter holiday either as I was preparing...

A few days ago, I caught myself thinking about the concept of mentorship and mentors in particular. To be honest I hated the word...

I recently attended a major conference in High Energy Physics called ICHEP. It was held in beautiful Bologna (Italy). The conference is...

This will be a short one - it’s fantastic. I am attending the ICHEP conference in Bologna (Italy) with my partner and our 4 year old. I...

Or so I truly believed. Both my parents are doctors. My dad works in his private practice mostly and a clinic, he is an OBYN, he delivers...

I wrote the text below for two reasons. One, I had the chance to discuss with young colleagues of mine within a forum called the “Laura...

Isn’t being overwhelmed one of the nastiest nemesis of (young) academics? The field appears to favour, select and push “all around”...