Mental Health

I was never afraid travelling. Now I'm pretty nervous when I travel alone. But I don't think that's such a bad thing.

I start the second half of my PhD with a research visit to Italy. I'm just as excited about this visit as about the rest of my PhD.

Reviewing projects is a small habit that has helped me feel better and let go. In this blog, I explain what I like about it and how I do it.

At a storytelling course another PhD student shared her story of making her way to a PhD, it has stuck with me ever since.

I’m a second-year PhD student as of this month. I can’t help but feel immensely grateful for this opportunity I’ve been given, and for the lessons I’ve learned from my supervisors, advisors and colleagues. I’ve learned a great deal from them, both in science and personal growth.

After years of studying, I have started feeling pretty confident in my machine learning abilities. But my collaboration with SRON brings me face to face with my lack of experience with satellite imagery. Let’s wind back to your student days with me, and dive into the world of the pure joy of learning new things!

First of all: I’m a gym addict. The type of gym that looks like a big garage, has a lot of free weights and free live entertainment in the form of elite athletes (Sportja Leiden, if you’re interested ;) ). When we have to run during a class, that usually raises collective moans.

Something a friend from uni told me last week over coffee got me thinking

The impostor syndrome - every PhD student gets it at some point, or so I’m told. For me, it’s hard to disentangle from my own perfectionism: I’m tempted to think whatever I do is not good enough, regardless of how good I think I am at something compared to other people.