Doing a PhD is going on a Hike… Enjoy It!
Hi there, we haven’t met yet. My name is Adib Caidi. I was born in Morocco but have been living in Germany for 10 years. I am in the final phase of my doctoral...
Monthly Archive: November 2022
From science to fuel!
What is science? Finding communicable patterns in a huge amount of data that itself is smaller than the data because of the limited amount of brain capacity we have. So this means that science...
Batteries and cakes
Similar to cakes, batteries are composed of different ingredients that need to be brought together. For a new type of battery, the so-called all solid state battery (ASSB), all these ingredients are powders like...
Importance and benefits Why is the rainforest important to us?
The tropical rainforest is far away from us – in distant continents where it is hot and humid. “What does the rainforest have to do with me?” you may be asking yourself. Why are...
First personal experience being a PhD student
My Name is Laura Schwan and I’m working in the SPP2315 of the german research foundation. What I want to say is: Don’t be so hard to yourself, it’s okay to fail. That’s also...
Importance of Programming Skills for Research
After I have done several long-time measurments of 2D particle size distributions by hand I got sick of sitting in front of the device and adjust its parameters for every single measurement all by...
Why being a PhD is more than science
One thing I have to learn during my four years as PhD student is, that all the PhD-comics are right. Being a PhD and doing your PhD is a rollercoaster ride of emotions. You...
The first year of being an PhD student
It is not something new. In a world of reasearchers, it seems as if everyone knows how it feels to be a PhD student. You are usually very young and just finished your Master’s...
How to become Spiderman?
Being able to climb walls would be fun, wouldn’t it? Unfortunately, mother nature – a.k.a. evolution – successfully prevents us humans to do so. Thinking of small animals like geckos and spiders, their gamechanging...
What is CombML?
CombML is a concept proposed by some researchers in Standford University, which stands for the full name of combustion machine learning. Machine learning, a data-driven method, is gradually used widely in the combustion research....
