Ana Paulina López (ESR2) To follow a PhD means to follow a path that generally takes several years. For some persons, it may take three years, and for others, five. In either case, you usually reside where the host University or company lies, and you may...

Silvana Quiton (ESR1)     For most of us in the Nowelties team, the secondments have started, and we are experiencing living in a different country, being in a different lab and interacting with different people. This is an exciting time in our PhD journey and, for me...

Nikoletta Tsiarta (ESR14)     “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!”, this is the phrase it comes to my mind when thinking of how my PhD life looks like until now. As all my other ESR colleagues, I am now finishing the second year of the ITN project...

Nebojša Ilić (ESR13)     After seeing the recent call for new astronauts by the European Space Agency (ESA), I started thinking about water reuse and how different this concept is for us down on planet earth compared to those in the international space station (ISS). In a man-made...

Michele Ponzelli (ESR12)     The life of a young researcher is often peppered with travel. From short stays of a few days for conferences to periods of exchange and collaboration. It happens that researchers stay abroad for months, if not years. You leave to discover, to learn, and...

Francis dela Rosa (ESR10)     Hi readers! It’s my blog contribution time again! I am very happy to share with you my marvelous experience during and after the 17th International Conference on Environmental Science & Technology (CEST 2021) in Athens, Greece. Finally, a hybrid (physical and virtual) conference...

Sabrina de Boer (ESR9)     In science, all observations perceived with our senses or the machines we build are the base for theories we create to understand and transform the world. The increasing knowledge and constantly refined theories make specialization into disciplines inevitable. I graduated in chemistry:...

Camilo Sánchez (ESR8)     Hi everybody, it is my turn to contribute to the blog, and this time I want to share with you a little about my PhD experience and how I end up in Zagreb. Since I was doing my bachelor’s, I was enrolled in a...

Barbara Kalebić (ESR7)     Hi readers! I hope that you enjoyed this summer, that you had the opportunity to visit the sea, a lake, or a river, and felt the refreshment provided by water in combination with the sun. This magic combination relaxes even the tensest bodies...