About me


My 2023 in academic review

2023 was an exceptionally challenging year, with a lot of interesting developments to reflect on. My year was unusual, in that it was dominated not by publications or travel, as is usual for me, but instead by grant writing and training. Scientific Outputs I had nine papers published in 2023, […]


My 2018 in academic review 1

The time is here again where I talk about my year, its highs and lows, and where things are going from here. 2018 started in the rainforest. I had been in Montagne d’Ambre with my team for a month and a half already, and had just been joined a few […]


The PhD–Postdoc Panic 1

So you’ve done the hard parts: you’ve landed yourself a PhD position doing the research that you’ve always been fascinated by and working with the leaders in the field you’ve wanted to be in since you were a little tot. You’ve managed to get a few publications out of it, […]


Books that influenced me the most

In April 2017, Darren Naish posted on his blog about the books that most influenced him, in a post by the same title as this one. This list, which, I admit, contains not a single book present in my own library, inspired me to share my own. In this case […]