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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. ... Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime – Mark Twain. 1869 I continue to benefit from my professional and academic career also by living in different places and getting to know new cultures
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We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become, like the radium, a benefit for humanity – Marie Curie. 1921 I have a broad (an continuously expanding) set of scientific interests, all usually within the realm of Evolutionary Biology and Marine Ecology. I am passionate about teaching from experience and challenging myself and students with new knowledge
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Learn one single skill and stick to it for all of your scientific career. – Nobody. Ever! I am far from being an expert on a single taxon or methodology. I value a holistic formation, an interdisciplinary approach, and being creative and resourceful.
Fieldwork. Diving (+Nitrox), visual surveys (fish, corals and mobile inverts), video/photo transects, ethology, taxonomic ID, water quality, plankton, endobenthos, . . . Field experiments and laboratory (controlled) bioessays. Rhythmic behavior, eco-toxicology, light-responses, predation, herbivory, . . . Molecular Biology and Genetics. WMISH, RT-qPCR, transgenesis, immunocytology, confocal microscopy, bioinformatics, phylogeny, . . . |
