Blog

Updates from a very busy year Now that we can safely travel again, there’s some catching up due for PersonalizeAF members! Okay, let’s take this out of the way from the git-go: this blog has been a bit silent for quite a while. I have no excuse for that except to say that I and …

Success and Failure Failure is all around the academic career, be that during experiments or grant applications. But is this always a bad thing? How to deal with it? A while ago, Teresa made a post here talking about imposter syndrome and perseverance during the PhD. I had been wondering about similar topics myself. Reading …

We are real people! For the first time since the beginning of PersonalizeAF, we have finally met each other in person (partially)! In the words of a certain punk-pop band, summer has come and passed, and it is almost time to wake them up by the end of September. I am a little bit behind …

Evolution and documentation This month’s post is a reflection on the human nature and poorly written codes Summer finally arrived in the Netherlands with a pretty hot weather even for my Brazilian standards, and I have thankfully been able to spend more and more time outside and even get some color (which in my case …

Transitions Spring came with challenges and new developments for my project in PersonalizeAF! Time has been running faster than I can follow up during this pandemic. April went by in the blink of an eye and here I am already a few days late for my post. This was a month for transitions: winter is …

Is there room for creativity in science? Scientists have very strict methods to follow during their work. Can they be creative despite it? The months of March and April are being very eventful for the ESRs of PersonalizeAF. We had our 2nd Consortium meeting last month, which has been a great opportunity to see what …

Dynamical systems and teaching Teaching is part of the scientific career and, this month, it was my turn to get a bit involved with it! One of the big reasons I ended up in a scientific career is teaching. Even though it does not occupy the largest chunk of the job, teaching was one of …

A look into our heart How can we actually see the results we get from computer models? I am a bit late to say this, but since this is my first post of the year, here it goes: Happy 2021! The beginning of the year has been somewhat chaotic around the world, but the prevailing …

Decoding equations that encode the atrial cells I dived into the world of ionic modeling of the atrial cells and managed to unravel a little bit this vast field After some weeks with many changes and new things to learn and see in Maastricht, it was time to get my hands dirty again and dive …

Reducing distances and new airs October was an exciting month with my first weeks in the Netherlands and PersonalizeAF events Being part of PersonalizeAF has guaranteed that every month is an interesting new experience with lots of things to do. This October was not different, with me moving to Maastricht, new analyses in the computer …