Scientific research is not by rule a fixed 9 to 5 job. In academia the hours are flexible enough so that you can have it that way if you want, though your group leader could have audacity to demand 60 hours a week – explicitly or implicitly. The amount of work you get done above [...]

My observation has been that most RISE students cannot speak much German even if they went on the 2-week language course before their internship. I am one of them. Although an interest in Germany was one of the reasons for my application for the RISE program, it came long after the opportunity to learn it [...]

So, another post about Heidelberg. Why not? I’ve now been here for a while, settled in and things have moved on from first impressions.  Prepare for a picture round – the first of many! I have been making good use of my camera. Don’t worry: should you ever visit any of these places, seeing my [...]

Hello everyone and welcome to my very first post for DAADblog! I am a RISE intern and my host institution is the Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, or the German Cancer Research Centre, in Heidelberg. I am living in what is essentially the science campus, Im Neuenheimer Feld; this is filled with university, federal and state research and [...]