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PhDlife: When the supervisor lives on another continent

2021-04-13
By: Antonia Roetger
On: 2021-04-13
In: Careers, International, PhDlife, Students

Erika Zaiser is working on her doctoral thesis on superalloys at HZB. She studied in Berlin and Tomsk, Russia, and graduated from TU Berlin with a double Master’s degree in physical engineering. She did her Master’s thesis at HZB, and her supervisor at the time, Dr Florian Vogel, is now also supervising her doctorate. However, he now lives in China. In the interview, I asked Erika how such a doctorate over distance is possible. At the end of the interview, Florian also joined in.Read More →

PhD student Gopinath Paramasivam: keeping the focus right!

2021-04-07
By: Florentine Krawatzek
On: 2021-04-07
In: Energymaterials, International, Students

When we talk to Gopi he sits in his family’s backyard in India, a long postponed vacation time in January. PhD student in Eva Unger’s group he shares about the importance to reconnect to nature as well as keeping focussed during his PhD.Read More →

Picture: Iver Lauermann portrait.

PhD supervisor Iver Lauermann about the joy of keeping up with students

2021-03-31
By: Florentine Krawatzek
On: 2021-03-31
In: Careers, Energymaterials

Chemistry student in the 80s in Hamburg, Iver works now as senior scientist at PVcomB/HZB, the competence centre photovoltaics in Berlin. Training the young generation of researchers is very important to him and he likes also learning from them.Read More →

PhD Student Natalia Gostkowska-Lekner hopes to travel again

2021-03-22
By: Antonia Roetger
On: 2021-03-22
In: Careers, Energymaterials, International, Students

Natalia Gostkowska-Lekner has finished her Master in Nanotechnology in 2018 at Gdansk University of Technology, at the seaside of Poland. She then moved to Berlin for a PhD position.  In her free time she enjoys roller skating on the Tempelhofer Feld and playing board games.Read More →

Picture: Yutsung Tsai, phd supervisor group leader at HZB.

PhD supervisor Yu-Tsung Tsai about the importance of being focused

2021-03-11
By: Florentine Krawatzek
On: 2021-03-11
In: Careers, Energymaterials, International

Group leader at the Institute of Silicon Photovoltaics at HZB, this Taiwanese physicist did his master’s degree in his home country before moving to the USA for his PhD and Postdoc. One of Yu-Tsung’s convictions he wants to share with its students is staying centred towards their own research interests and knowing their topic on the top of their heads. Read More →

PhD student Javier Villalobos: The value of time

2021-02-24
By: Antonia Roetger
On: 2021-02-24
In: Careers, Energymaterials, International, Lightsources, Students

Javier Villalobos studied chemistry in San José, Costa Rica. In his PhD project, he studies catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction by electrolytic water splitting. He is working on cobalt and manganese oxides as catalysts for oxygen evolution in electrolytic water splitting and analysing these catalysts at BESSY II. And he makes a point in using time wisely.Read More →

Picture: Katherine Mazzio scientist and supervisor. She says that obtaining a PhD is a critical step to become a scientist. at HZB.

PhD supervisor Katherine Mazzio: guiding students is part of my job and I enjoy this role

2021-02-18
By: Florentine Krawatzek
On: 2021-02-18
In: Careers, Energymaterials, International

A native of Portland (Oregon), Katherine Mazzio received her PhD in a dual degree program in Materials Science and Engineering and Nanotechnology at the University of Washington in 2014. For her, obtaining a PhD is a critical training step to becoming a scientist. Right now, she supervises two PhD students, a master student and helps out whenever it is needed in her group.Read More →

A change of perspective: Dr. Joachim Breternitz

2021-02-10
By: Antonia Roetger
On: 2021-02-10
In: Careers, Energymaterials, International, Students

Joachim Breternitz is at his office at the University of Potsdam, when my call reaches him. The chemist is a scientist at the HZB Department of Structure and Dynamics of Energy Materials since 2016. He is the scientific day-to-day supervisor of two, soon three, doctoral students.Read More →

PhD student Markus Schleuning: exchange as motor of science

2021-02-01
By: Antonia Roetger
On: 2021-02-01
In: Careers, Corona, Energymaterials, International, Students

Markus Schleuning is a true Berliner, which is a rare condition among the international doctoral students at HZB. He studied physics at TU Berlin and is now doing his doctorate at the HZB Institute for Solar Fuels as part of the international graduate programme HI-SCORE, which includes exchange with partners in Israel.Read More →

Marion Flatken, PhD student at HZB.

PhD student Marion Flatken, from industry back into science

2021-01-18
By: Florentine Krawatzek
On: 2021-01-18
In: Careers, Students

Marion is 27 years young and started her PhD in Antonio Abate’s group in September 2018. She is passionate about getting to the bottom of things, has worked in industry and loves running and playing volleyball. In this interview she tells us more about her experience as a PhD student.Read More →

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