Tag: profile
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Behind closed eyes
I can’t quite put my finger on the moment I met our next protagonist, but it was around 9 years ago. Somewhere between shared neuroscience departmental years and passing conversations, she became a familiar constant: thoughtful, sharp, and always working on something that felt secretly important. Her name is Özge, but in my head (and…
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Back to School
This piece is lucky number thirteen, and it’s an especially wholesome one. It’s about one of my dearest friends, Lindsey, and just as the title hints, it tells the story of how she went back to school (or college, or university, depending on where you’re from). I first met Lindsey through her partner, Berk, who…
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The Trigger List
I hope you are ready, because this one is going to be quite different (part comedy, part philosophy, much like the subject himself)! I cannot even recall the first time I met Clément (some of my friends call him Petit Clément because we have another friend called Clément who is Grand Clément; I like to…
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Mind’s Eye Wide Shut
It is unbelievable to me that the subject of my next profile entered my life a mere 6 months ago. Her name is Clara. She came into my world as an intern in our lab, quiet at first, her desk looking bare and a little lonely. On a whim, I gave her a couple of…
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May it Make You Happy
You know those people you walk by on the street that make you do a double-take because you just love their style? Not because it’s expensive or the latest trend, but because it’s so them? Uarda is one of those people. As with many great friendships, I met her through a mutual friend (you know…
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Through a Different Lens
I am unsure about how to begin this piece and that would also explain the length of time between this and my previous post. In addition to the fact that I recently started a new job and said goodbye to my lab, which I was at for almost 9 years. 9 years – even writing…
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A Man of Many Passions
Not just a plant guy I’m not entirely sure where to begin with our next profile, so maybe I will start with an admission of error on my part. Before my friend Olivier returned back to Geneva from his work escapades in the US, we had only crossed paths briefly, as he was on his…
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Let the House Whisper
Perfect timing In Switzerland, once you become a naturalised Swiss citizen, you have what is called a ‘place of origin’, which is the municipality where you became naturalised. This Heimatort or Lieu d’origine in German and French, respectively, is passed on through generations, and used to have a much larger significance historically, but today serves…
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We Can Make It at Home
Claudia and I She entered my life a little over 3 years ago with an incomparable flourish, refusing to finish an entire sentence without interjecting multiple Spanish colloquialisms. I was in the midst of my PhD, arguably one of the most demanding phases. By this point, I had developed valuable expertise in a specialized scientific…
Talks in Tan-dem 