State of the lab 10 and 11 - the first years at ETH Zurich

Yet another lake by a mountain in SwitzerlandThis blog post is part of a(nearly) yearly series on running a research group in academia. This post summarizes years 10 and 11, the first 2 years after moving to ETH Zurich. It also marks the end of the first decade as a research group leader, which is meaningful only because we have ten fingers and use 10 as a base for counting but I digress. There has been a lot to adapt to in moving to a new country including all the basics of moving, re-building the group and starting teaching. It was a lot easier than the first time around since I didn ' t have to set up the group from zero. Some people came with me, some stayed at EMBL-EBI with funding that couldn ' t be moved and generally speaking we could continue several computational related projects without much interruption. If we were primarily lab based then I think the interruption would have been more dramatic. Unexpectedly, there were more periods of high stress than I typically have. There was no particular reason for the stress but just a combination of multiple small things and probably due mostly to the adaptation to a new place. I will cover here some of the biggest things I am having to adapt to and also some of the research directions planned for the first 5 years of the group at ETH. One aspect that I will not cover is networking and getting to know the Swiss research landscape, but I will come to it in a later post.The Swiss style of leadershipThe EMBL, where I was befor...
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