During her stay in New Zealand on an Erwin-Schrödinger Fellowship, the business economist Elfi Furtmüller not only encountered an impressive countryside and a relaxed approach to life, but also gained important insights into a successful research system. Continue reading “Sapientia magis auro desideranda*”
The pathologist Philipp Starkl talks about Stanford, the comfort of living in San Francisco and the inestimable value of exchanges with the international scientific community. Continue reading “If you’re going to San Francisco …”
Erwin-Schrödinger Fellow Karin Schnass about the challenges of an international career in science, cold winters in warm regions and difficult decisions. Continue reading “Ajó!* – Off to Sardinia”
Like Rome, his discipline, celestial mechanics, can look back on a history of many thousands of years, reports Christoph Lhotka from the “Eternal City”. Continue reading “Living and Doing Research in the Eternal City”
Gudrun Böhmdorfer has garnered a postdoc fellowship at the laboratory of the renowned biologist Andrzej Wierzbicki at the University of Michigan, where she discovers new research methods and professional crisis management for when tornadoes strike. Continue reading “Hi, how are you? Hello from Ann Arbor”
The pharmaceutical scientist and Erwin-Schrödinger Fellow Katrin Wlcek reports about making herself at home in Zurich, irksome bureaucratic hurdles and high quality of life. Continue reading “‘Grüezi miteinand’* from Switzerland!”
The Erwin-Schrödinger Fellowship provided an opportunity for Tobias Pfingstl to do research in the Bermudas where the evolutionary biologist studies intertidal mites and finds a culture marked by serenity. Continue reading “Lost in the Bermuda Triangle? Not in the Least!”
An Erwin-Schrödinger Fellowship helped the mathematician Katrin Grunert find a new home in the Norwegian town of Trondheim, where she does research at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Continue reading “Det finnes ikke dårlig vær, bare dårlige klær!*”
His passion for research took René Sedmik to Amsterdam, where the physicist not only found excellent working conditions but also an extremely tolerant social environment. Continue reading “Onderweg in Amsterdam”
In the context of his Erwin-Schrödinger Fellowship, the physicist Michael Ruggenthaler does research in Finland. From the far north he reports about nature governing life’s rhythms and the freedoms found in daily research routine. Continue reading “Itävallasta Jyväskylään – from Austria to Jyväskylä”