Gabriele received her Ph.D. in biology from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology in Seewiesen, Germany. She did a post-doc in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania working with Martin E. P. Seligman. She then worked as a senior scientist at the Max-Planck-Institute…
Bob Rehder received a B.A. in Physics and a B.S. Computer Science from Washington University at St. Louis. After graduation, he was employed as a scientific programmer for a firm developing brain scanners based on the CT (cranial-axial tomography) technology. After working for a number of other software companies, Bob earned a…
Moira R. Dillon, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at New York University. A recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award and the Cognitive Science Society’s Lila R. Gleitman Prize for her work on the cognitive origins of geometry and its implications for both formal and informal learning, Dillon…
Stephen received his BA degree in Biochemistry from Grinnell College, where he stumbled upon neuroscience research by working with Clark Lindgren on the lizard neuromuscular junction. After finishing college, he briefly worked as a neuroscience lab TA before pursuing a PhD in neurobiology at Harvard University. In graduate school…
Have you ever wondered what your advisor struggled with as a graduate student? What they struggle with now? Growing up in Science is a conversation series featuring personal narratives of becoming and being a scientist.
Growing up in Science was started in 2014 at New York University by professors Wei Ji Ma and Cristina Alberini, and is now worldwide.This article describes the origin and impact of the series. At a typical Growing up in Science event, one faculty member shares their life story, with a focus on struggles, failures, doubts, detours, and weaknesses. Common topics include dealing with expectations, impostor syndrome, procrastination, luck, rejection, conflicts with advisors, and work-life balance, but these topics are always embedded in the speaker's broader narrative.
Join us for a conversation about the human factors that are universal undercurrents of working in academia but that too often remain unspoken.