5th PersonalizeAF meeting in Bordeaux, France The University of Bordeaux will host the next PersonalizeAF, during 4th and 5th of July 2022 Next 4 and 5th of July, the PersonalizeAF consortium will meet for the first time in person. After two years of online meetings and workshops, most of the consortium will meet in Bordeaux, …

Research = exchange From the EP-lab to a basic research lab Hallo! Wie geht’s? It’s been a while since I last posted. So long, that I even changed from speaking in Catalan to German in the work environment. “How so? Weren’t you doing your PhD in Barcelona?”, you may ask. And you’re right, but as …

Scientific Cooperation: Too many cooks don’t spoil the broth close up shot of M. tuberculosis, arranged in colonies (CDC/Dr. George Kubica, Public Health Image Library 1976) This time we are starting way back, 9 thousand years to be precise; to an untimely death of a mother and her infant in the eastern mediterranean, – taken …

Science and Art: Beauty in the Lab A painting of sea roses by Claude Monet and a fluorescence image of a coculture, can you tell where one begins and the other ends? Bull’s head sculpture by Pablo Picasso, made from a bicycle’s seat and handlebar Because this post is going to be about art, it …

Global Atrial Fibrillation Aware Week Global Atrial Fibrillation Aware Week and the impact of AF in the population This week, as every year, from AF Association, hosts the Global AF Aware Week, with the aim of raising awareness of Atrial Fibrillation. Under the slogan “No More Time To Lose”, it aims to address the impact …

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 …

How a young chess champion from the rural town of Famaillá, Tucumán, Argentina became a nuclear engineer working on Atrial Fibrillation in Norway Hi everyone, my name is Sergio Nabil Gadur. I am 27 years old. I come from the northern part of Argentina. My town is characterized by the National Festival of Empanada and …

One year on.. The more you know, the less you know! Hey everyone! This is Narimane Early-Stage researcher number 10 from Bordeaux. Now I am on my way to the land of cheese and chocolate, I thought it’s the perfect timing for writing. I am really thrilled to finally type down another blog post, after a …

PersonalizeAF participates in Atrial Signals Conference ESRs and supervisors attend the conference to show their research and to promote the project Last 23th-25th of September, some PersonalizeAF members, including Early Stage Researchers and Supervisors, attended the Atrial Signals Conference 2021 in Karlsruhe (Germany) http://www.atrial-signals.kit.edu/. The conference was  organized by joint forces of the Institute of …

CinC 2021, In-person meetings closer and closer I remembered Computing in Cardiology (CinC) as a lovely experience. CinC 2019 was my first glimpse into the academic world. I had  just finished my bachelor’s degree and I was presenting part of my thesis in an international conference. It was my first conference, as well as the …