My Sixth Easter Term

Easter Term in Cambridge is always nice if you don’t have exams (edit:) AND it’s not 2020. This year, however, the weather wasn’t particularly pleasant at first, with some thunderstorm leading to river closures. Mandatory-rowing-paragraph With the Sun back up, I probably didn’t do much outside of rowing and base research. I somehow ended up […]

Spring news

I have been happily busy so far in 2023. academic updates The first paper of my PhD will be published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology. It got accepted only a couple of days after I gave a (Flash) Talk about it at the Annual Symposium from Cambridge Infectious Diseases. Earlier this year, I also […]

2023

Part I: Looking backwards 2022 was a great year for me. It might have been the best year of my life so far. It was my first calendar year working solely on my PhD. I probably lived in Cambridge for more weeks than ever before. Beyond the UK and Spain, this year, I have been […]

Settling in. Finally.

It’s taken me almost 7 months of my PhD and 4.5 years in Cambridge, but (I think) I’ve finally reached a steady state.

I have changed my mind about “women in STEM”

Disclaimers: Views my own, and limited to my cis-gendered perspective. “Another year, another Internation Women’s Day”, wrote Athene Donald earlier this month. With this resignation that we still need this day (or week, or month), I opened my inbox awaiting the yearly email from the Maths Faculty in which maths students are reminded that women […]

how to get better at Cambridge maths

I’ve recently been asked twice by first-year Cambridge maths students how to get good at maths. While I did reply to one of them with advice specific to their situation, this is a good topic for a simple, informative post. (Definitely not meant to be my best post – it won’t be, I have covid […]

I’m back

As 2022 approaches, I thought I’ll give a quick update (but see News for more). Introduction: For me, as for many others, 2021 has been a tough year. I haven’t really published any new posts since early January, partially because I’ve become more risk-averse about the things I publish online (for various reasons) and partially […]

Online University

Month 2 of lockdown update: Making the most of quarantine, online maths supervisions, and other news.

Pictures & family visit (LEEDS PART 2)

Hello all, This is a post is a follow-up of my previous entry. However, this one is mainly pictures. Enjoy! My family came to Leeds at the end of the summer school. (They went to Manchester and Liverpool the days before that). On a very rainy day we went to York (without umbrellas). It was […]

LMS SUMMER SCHOOL (Leeds Part 1)

Hello everyone! As mentioned in my previous post, I was fortunate enough to be chosen to attend the LMS Undergraduate Summer School. It was held at the School of Mathematics of the University of Leeds, for ten days. I took a break from my summer project and went there. I managed not to miss any of […]