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I was in my fourth year of school when I first decided I wanted to be magician.

Plants can’t move away from bacteria or infections. Instead, over millions of years, they’ve developed their own chemical defenses to survive.

1. Why we need a silicon laser in the first place? Every time you stream a video, send an email, browse the internet or read this blog post, your data is for part of its journey, travelling as pulses of light through optical fibres. The lasers that generate this light are not made of silicon. […]

Moving away to a new country, more than 8,000 kms away from home, where you don’t speak the native language, in pursuit of your dreams, comes with apprehension and excitement. These feelings are not loud, unlike the trumpets blown back in my country, they are the slow winding creepers finding their way into your existence. […]

When you drive along a road, you probably don’t think much about the grass on the side. It’s just there—cut regularly, quiet, almost invisible. But what if those green strips could help protect biodiversity, reduce carbon emissions, improve road safety, and even save public money? These areas, known as roadside verges, are far more important […]

Moving across the world to pursue a PhD sounds, on paper, like a bold and inspiring decision. It carries the promise of intellectual growth, new cultures, and the kind of independence that shapes a person for life. But what often goes unspoken is the emotional cost—the quiet, persistent weight of anxiety, depression, and loneliness that […]

Machine learning methods are opaque, with varying levels of obscurity surrounding their implementation. Sceptics claim: “no, you shouldn’t use machine learning, because it’s a black box”, but are they right?

Understanding the Many Faces of Uncertainty In climate science, the word “uncertainty” connotes way more than a technical term – it’s a fundamental property of the system we study. Every dataset, model output or forecast carries with it some degree of doubt: about how the atmosphere or ocean was observed, how well models represent physical […]

From my observation, internationals tend to hang around a lot with other internationals. The closest friends I made came from other countries as well.  We all have that common ground of having to start our social circle from scratch, of trying to find new friends among colleagues.

Powerful lasers can generate shockwaves that compress matter to stellar densities, satisfying the conditions required for thermonuclear fusion. This research brings us closer to achieving plasma ignition and a future of safe, carbon-free energy.

I have just finished my first year of PhD life in the wonderful AUFRANDE project, and I would be very happy to share some of my nice experiences in this blog.

During the CBH Graduate School Summer School ‘Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Research’ I had to confront a truth I had never really considered before: the act of doing climate research itself has a carbon footprint.