Title: Your PhD and you.

Speaker: Julián Urbano, TU Delft. Research alumni at DTIC-UPF (2023-2017, A4U and Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellowships).

Going through a PhD may be seen as a requirement for an academic career or a different kind of job, simply as “the next step” in education, as something to do “because why not?”, or even just as a hobby you have on the side. What it really is though, is a life-changing experience, something that can be terribly painful and amazingly rewarding at the same time. In that journey I learned a few lessons in the hard way, lessons that I wish someone had told me about at the time. In this talk I’ll try to do just that and not talk about the content and process of a PhD, but rather about you, the person, during your PhD.