Tips and Tools to have a less Stressful PhD
In this article, I am trying to share with you my own experience throughout my PhD time in Hamburg. The current article is not more than a personal experience where I am trying to share...
Category: Blogposts
All Science Chatter Hamburg blog posts
Knowledge Makers – What to do when Scientists don’t yet “know”?
Scientists are sometimes simply presented to the world as people who “know things”. Whether they be Boffins, Profs, Sci-Guys or Poindexters, scientists are often asked to tell the world what they know. Most of the...
Dream of a Purple Sky
Sometimes a weird dream inspires me to ask a seemingly mundane question, today about why our sky is not purple. The quest to explain it is surprisingly more insightful that what I expected at first.
Once Upon a Dynamo in the Early Universe
New simulations by University of Hamburg researchers & collaborators at Australian National University reveal a powerful turbulent dynamo acting in the early Universe. This dynamo could have rapidly amplified the initially weak cosmic magnetic fields...
How to go out and watch the first galaxies over 12 billion years ago
From Light to Dark & back to Light – A brief history At some point after the Big Bang the hot plasma opaque to light had cooled down enough so that during Recombination, electrons and...
Studying the uncharted territories of the Standard Model using gravitational waves
Our current knowledge about the elementary constituents of Nature can be summarized by the Standard Model of Particle Physics. This model aims to describe what the elementary building blocks of the Universe are and how...
In touch with dark matter at the Large Hadron Collider: possible or preposterous?
A new day dawns at the Swiss-French border It is 4am in a small village close to the Swiss and French border. The sound of a cock crowing rings through the air. However, this sound...
Getting rid of ‘Corona’
Once you read the title, the first thing that comes to your mind is the novel coronavirus, the vaccine, and the difficult situation we are facing right now. Keep calm, it’s not about this Corona,...
Carbon Footprint of the LHC
I did my bachelor’s in Vietnam with a thesis on a theoretical 5D gravitational theory. Infrastructure for experimental physics in Vietnam compared to Europe or the US is like me sparring with Mayweather. Probably it’s...
The “phase” problem of my life as a PhD student
There is a famous legend that everyone hears somewhere – Isaac Newton was sitting in his garden one morning and watched an apple fall from the tree. He thought to himself – Why do apples...
