My first time opponent at a Swedish PhD defense at #SLU is in the books - always great to be up in #Umeå, this time extra bonus with skiing over the frozen Baltic Sea with colleagues of @umeauniversitet.bsky.social …plus northern lights and moose at night #lifeasascientist

Haven't been really around here lately, but I'm thrilled to announce that I've just accepted a Faculty position in Japan and will be opening my research group this coming winter! Exciting stuff! #lifeasascientist #chemicalecology

Have been doing a field work for a month now in Hokkaido 🇯🇵, studying the chemical ecology of Salicaceae plants and herbivorous insects 🌿🐛. It's incredibly fun to be out of my comfort zone as an "indoor" ecologist! 😂 #lifeasascientist #chemicalecology #fieldwork #japan

Perk of being #newPI meeting with Visiting Prof is receiving inspirational nuggets of wisdom: "The greatest thing about being at the bench is that when you get novel results you are the first human on Earth to discover a fundamental truth." - N. Katsanis, PhD #LifeAsAScientist