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Today's guest is Mateja Erce, a PhD student in Renewable Materials for  Healthy Built Environments at the University of Primorska in Slovenia  and a ReMO Ambassador. In the second part of our conversation, Mateja presents a description of  what a healthy, functional, reasonable and realistic scenario for a PhD journey would look like in her opinion. Cooperation vs. competition, clear expectations and support throughout the process are the pillars of this scenario. Thank you for listening to this podcast. For more  episodes, please check out our website, at remo-network.eu

Today's guest is Mateja Erce, a PhD student in Renewable Materials for Healthy Built Environments at the University of Primorska in Slovenia and a ReMO Ambassador. In the first part of our conversation, we talk about some of the challenges that researchers face in their careers, both at personal and systemic level, including a misleading perception of the job, which leads to wrong expectations. We talk about the pressure to produce as much as possible, without a ceiling, a clear notion of how much is enough; finally, we talk about the intensive intellectual labor (as opposed to physical labor) and the competition among colleagues even within the same group or team. In the second part of our conversation, I will ask Mateja to talk about how things would look right to her, not really a plan for action, but a description of what a healthy, functional, reasonable and realistic scenario would look like in her opinion. Thank you for listening to this podcast. For more episodes, please check out our website, at remo-network.eu

Today's guest is Wainer Lusoli, Deputy Head of Unit of the European  Research Executive Agency (REA), and we talk about METASCIENCE. In the second part  of our conversation, Wainer talks about what may be positive about the megatrends mentioned in the first part of the conversation, such as speed, the mechanization of science, the professionalization of science, the monetization and the industrialization of science - and what we may want to keep in planning our way forward, in  trying to orient the next transformation of science in a way that  safeguards and ensures the personal wellbeing of the professional of  science. Thank you for listening to this podcast. For more episodes,  please check out our website, at remo-network.eu

Today's guest is Wainer Lusoli, Deputy Head of Unit of the European Research Executive Agency (REA), and we talk about METASCIENCE. In the first part of our conversation, Wainer points out some of the megatrends that define the scientific ethos, such as speed, the mechanization of science, the professionalization of science, the monetization and the industrialization of science. Ethics plays a big role, too. Ethics that is not written in stone, but co-evolves with society. In the second part of our conversation, I will ask him what may be positive about these trends, and what we may want to keep in planning our way forward, in trying to orient the next transformation of science in a way that safeguards and ensures the personal wellbeing of the professional of science. Thank you for listening to this podcast. For more episodes, please check out our website, at remo-network.eu

Today's guest is Luca Viganò, Professor in Cybersecurity at King's  College London and we talk about MENTORSHIP. Besides being a professor  in cybersecurity, he is an experienced supervisor as well as a former  coordinator of a PhD school. In the second part of our conversation, we talk about the strategies that may be adopted to improve a critical situation between mentor and mentee, about whether a mandatory training for supervisors may be helpful, and finally whether we should expect that PhD supervisor be able to support their students in personal, emotional struggles. Thank you for listening to this podcast. For more episodes, please check out our website, at remo-network.eu

Today's guest is Luca Viganò, Professor in Cybersecurity at King's College London and we talk about MENTORSHIP. Besides being a professor in cybersecurity, he is an experienced supervisor as well as a former coordinator of a PhD school. In the first part of our converation, Luca outlines what the job of a supervisor is and what it is reasonable to expect from a supervisor. He shares some of the common complaints that he has received from PhD students when he was serving as the director of a PhD school. In the second part of this conversation, we will talk about the strategies that may be adopted to improve a critical situation between mentor and mentee, about whether a mandatory training for supervisors may be helpful, and finally whether we should expect that PhD supervisor be able to support their students in personal, emotional struggles. See you again in the second part of this episode of the ReMO podcast with Luca Viganò.