Mistakes in the lab

I have collaborated with several people in the lab, and usually works run smoothly and at the end we are all happy. Today was a bit different, it all started well and I was working with another PHD student both full of motivation… We  moved to my lab bench and started to analyse previous data [...]

UCL Biochemical Engineering party night at the Green Man pub

UCL Biochemical Engineering PHDs, posdocs, MSCs  and more with half of a pub just for themselves… Let the beer and fun flow.. We celebrated I am not sure what in the Green Man Pub, it was the first time I went there and the fact they have draught Leffe made this pub one of my [...]

Football vicoty of Biochemical Engineering PHD guys in the park

I arrived late to found out all my friends with the moral down because they did not have a football to play with.  It seemed like football was going to be a failure that day, when Chris spotted some guys kind of waiting to be challenged. I did not think it twice, I challenged them [...]

Biocatalysis Gordon Research Conference 2010 in Rhode Island

I enjoyed all the conferences which were of great quality and inspiration, and apart from the conferences, for a young PHD , it was important to be able to mix with the researchers and interact with them. The place was carefully chosen to be isolated,  to avoid people leaving for site sighting and focus them [...]

Biochemical engineering PHD soccer team : our star chinnese goalkeeper

Life without football is not life. I know many girls would think football is dumb, but that is just because they don´t know how to have great fun.  My team has  mainly  PhD students players from my department. It is nice to find that a big percentage of  science researchers in UCL love and play [...]

Dissapointing meeting

September 18 of 2009 I woke up late, and I felt I had waked up in a lazy heaven….. My conscience knew I had an important meeting at 11 am, and that I had not finished processing all my data, but the temptation of tasting the honey were my mind was immersed was too strong. [...]

Relaxed and succesful second year PHD viva

I had my viva at the beginning of april 2009 with Dr. Nicolas Szita. I had just arrived from my nice trip from Florence and Venice last night, so my mind was still not very focused, but making my outline of my presentation in my little paper notebook proved to be very useful.   When I [...]