10 years
Reflections on SnT Every year the SnT community grows, with each new person bringing unique talent and perspective to our research and making our team stronger. As they join us, many find our culture and way of working distinctive. They have many stories to tell and reflecting on SnT means something different to everyone.
Bhavani Shankar RESEARCH SCIENTIST, JOINED IN 2009 “Towards the end of my PostDoc at KTH under Prof Ottersten, I was informed about his plans to launch SnT. This looked like an exciting opportunity: we were basically going to build a center from scratch! That’s why I joined SnT.”
Cécile Petit PROJECT COORDINATOR, JOINED IN 2011
Paulo Esteves-Veríssimo RESEARCH GROUP HEAD, JOINED IN 2014 “SnT has been experiencing phenomenal growth, both qualitatively and quantitatively, but it hasn’t been a case of abrupt changes – there is continuity in our growth strategy.”
“Researchers understandably focus on publications, but it’s important to remember that acquiring funding is also a big part of the job. SnT is very demand-driven and project-based, so this is even more the case here. Every year we grow, and that's always been driven from the bottom up, with lots of successful project applications, whether from the EU, FNR or industry partnerships.”
Serket Quintanar Guzmán Jorge Augusto Meira RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, JOINED IN 2016 “My most memorable moment at SnT was my first Partnership Day. We get to talk to the other researchers at SnT and meet all of our private and public partners. We still get to talk about science, but in a different, more relaxed environment.”
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DOCTORAL RESEARCHER, JOINED IN 2015 “The thing that I like the most about SnT, or Luxembourg in general, is multiculturalism. It’s amazing how this impacts creativity and productivity at work, and how interesting the office atmosphere becomes.”
