57 Ready for a Change? - with Jennifer Polk
Jennifer Polk coaches PhDs ready to make a career change. It's the time of the year when many of us slow down and think about our career decisions. Are you happy with...
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Dennis Eckmeier, Science for Progress
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56 Food System Transformation - with Gesa Maschkowski
Food production, transportation, and consumption habits have an immense impact on health, biodiversity, and the climate. Which food we eat influences our risks for metabolic and cardiovascular diseases; but also the use...
55 Are you FIT 4 RRI?
Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) is the idea of bringing stakeholders to the table when we plan our research strategies. The EU-funded project "FIT4RRI" was tasked with finding out why aspects of...
54 Flatten the Global Temperature Curve - with Maria-Elena Vorrath
My guest in this episode is Dr. Maria-Elena Vorrath, a geologist who studies the history of climate change, who just finished her PhD. Besides her work as a researcher she is a...
53 A Neuroscientist’s View on Artificial Intelligence
One of my favorite topics is artificial intelligence, or - more specifically - what we can learn from neuroscience about artificial intelligence. So, when I was gifted the book "Life 3.0: Being...
52 B&D Online Teaching, SciComm, and the Populist Fringes
My co-host Bart Geurten and I had a rather spontaneous conversation, again. We talk about remote teaching, how science communication and science journalism could be supported by the public, and speculate about...
51 Extended Throwback: Precarious Postdocs - with Gary McDowell
Postdocs are, besides graduate students, the main workforce in academic research. Following the PhD, the postdoc position is the only way to follow a research career within academia. Many PhDs around the...
50 Sustainable Mobility - with Jonathan Koehler of Scientists for Future
For this episode, I spoke with Dr. Jonathan Köhler who studies the transformation of the transportation and mobility sectors using computational models at Competence Centre Sustainability and Infrastructure Systems of Fraunhofer Institute....
49 Times of Crisis - Conspiracy Myths and SciComm - with B&D
For this episode, Bart and I had a rather spontaneous chat about conspiracy beliefs and science communication during the -19 pandemic. Worldwide conspiracy myths about SARS-CoV-2 appear to be on the rise,...
48 SciComm as Career Development Tool - Dmitry Kopelyanskiy
For this episode, Dennis talked to Dmitry Kopelyanskiy, a contest-winning science communicator who gives entertaining science talks on stage - mostly about his own research on tropical diseases. But here, Dmitry also...
