Professional Materials

• I use this Github pages template for my website
• I use this LaTeX template for my CV

PhDing in Germany

• I get asked often about what it’s like to do a PhD in Germany. This blog post gives a good overview, and I would say my experience at MPI-SP is similar

Learning German

• The summer before moving to Bochum, I did a Lingoda Sprint (and I got my money back!). This intensive course, combined with living in Germany for the past 4 years has helped me get to a survival level of German. However, I work in a fully English-speaking environment and have an international group of friends and colleagues, so is it admittedly difficult to become fluent. Your institute or university will usually offer some free language courses, but these may not be enough and sometimes coincide with work time, so I went the self-learning route:
• Other German-learning resources I found helpful (with content that is interesting, i,e., not stuff for children)
  • Easy German YouTube channel
  • I tried out Babbel’s live classes for 3 months . However, as there was no risk of losing my money if I missed a class, I found it difficult to keep myself accountable to showing up for these classes
  • DW’s slowly spoken news

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