Natasha Karp
I was flying high and had 12 publications but then my first son was born and he was very poorly and I had to prioritise the family… →
María Eugenia Cejas
“I started to feel in crisis with my career (..). Now I am working in the fashion industry while at the same time I do research and teaching.” .. →
Paola Console
What I really love about my current job is that this it is based on applying math to the real world, but it is also really focused on relationships… →
Clara Stegehuis
In high school I never knew that there was so much more to mathematics than quadratic equations, so I like to share that with as many people as possible!.. →
Marianne Freiberger
I love my job because it allows me to do what research didn’t: to learn a lot about all sorts of topics but without having to dig too deeply into the technical details… →
Gabriela Capo Rangel
The academic path is extremely hard to follow. So far every few years, I have been changing between jobs, countries, friends and languages. Many times I dream about family life, stability and job security. .. →
Candice Price
Looking at those celebrated in mathematics, I didn’t see someone that looked like me. I assumed that meant that no matter how much I loved math, it did not love me back… →
Evelyn Cueva
I always had a particular interest in photography, but discovering the physical and mathematical models behind acquisition, reconstruction, and post-processing was something I did not want to stop learning about… →
Ellese Cotterill
I also realised that I was more interested in working on challenging and meaningful problems from a mathematical perspective, rather than their precise applications… →
Carolin Trouet
I skipped my plan to obtain a PhD at my University. Instead, I searched for a job. This is how I started working in a very fascinating industry, the Airline IT, as a software engineer in the area of flight optimization… →
Jamie Prezioso
I had every intention of obtaining a Master’s degree in a few years and leaving the program for industry. Through coursework and research, I found I was truly passionate about math. And so, I obtained a PhD in Applied Mathematics… →
Dr Beate Ehrhardt
I love mathematics. I love learning. I love people. And I love science. But most of all I love when all of these four things come together… →
Hanne Kekkonen
I’m happy if seeing a woman mathematician, who is excited about the subject, makes some little girl consider a science career as a real possibility… →
Masoumeh Dashti
During and after my master’s degree I worked in two engineering companies in Iran and also did an internship in an oil company in Japan. […] I felt that I would prefer the greater freedom that a research job in academia could offer me. .. →
Patricia Egger
Although many people influenced and supported me throughout this process, I’m glad I never took anyone’s opinion more seriously than I did my own… →
Marilyn Gatica Briceño
My father’s neurologist told me: “we need mathematicians in this area”, and at this point, my journey began… →
Tamara Dancheva
Doing a Ph.D. is an arduous journey (or a labyrinth) that can be very exhausting and equally rewarding, the latter driving me forward… →
Lena Frerking
In the end, it did [work out], and I am more than happy that I took the risk to fail… →
Carmen-Ana Domínguez Bravo
I wanted to be a teacher since I was a child but I chose the subject to teach later on… →
Dr Camilla Schelpe
I loved learning about cosmology, but when it came to research, I found the techniques for making progress weren’t very field specific – I was chipping away at the corners of the unknown without much day-to-day exposure to the bigger picture… →