Sea ice surrounding the Ship RV Polarstern. Image Credit : Damien Ringeisen<\/em><\/p><\/div>\nI think we have to ask ourselves what motivates us the most. For me it was to work on the effects of climate change, doing a work that will maybe matter for the rest of society. Not that astrophysics does not affect society, great discovery has been made from fundamental research – e.g. GPS would not work without General Relativity – but we will not go to any exoplanet anytime soon, we only have our own to take care of at the moment. So, a couple of applications later, and a long well (deserved) 3 months vacation period later, I arrived in Bremerhaven to start my Ph.D. on modeling sea ice dynamics in the Arctic ocean.<\/p>\n
So to young people that are interested in working in science, don’t be discouraged by the first bump on your road, try again, analyze your failure. And aim for something that is important to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hi dear folks! It seems that time goes on unnoticed, so several months after Valentin started, I think it is time to present myself. I was born in the east of France, in the (objectively) beautiful city of Lyon. Growing up in this city includes a love for good food, as Lyon is the French’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":1798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,27],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.12.2","language":"de","enabled_languages":["en","de","fr","ru"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"de":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"fr":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"ru":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1780"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1805,"href":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions\/1805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1780"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}