Mentoring

It gives direct advice grounded in my background and in the experience of people I have worked closely with. Most issues you bring have already been faced and solved in practice.

• PhD demands and outcomes

• Prestige, stability, freedom, pay

• Academic skills into marketable skills

• Academic and corporate career paths

• Self-evaluation without external validation

• International life across systems and cultures

• Choosing field, supervisor, and research group

• Academia from the inside: BSc, MSc, PhD, postdoc

• Brainstorming and stress-testing ideas with realism

• Hiring, selection, and evaluation beyond universities

• Sustained work on applications and research statements

• Independence, research pressure, publications, networking

• Year-long programs prioritising persistence over quick wins

• High tolerance for complexity, uncertainty and slow progress