Going for yes in your academic life

With Dr Silvia Valenzuela-Lamas

Dr Silvia Valenzuela-Lamas is a Principal Investigator and archeologist at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) in Spain.  She was previously a recipient of a prestigious European Research Council Starting Grant. She used this success to leverage a permanent position back to her home country after several years of hard work and academic uncertainty.

More about Silvia

https://www.asd-csic.es/staff/silvia-valenzuela-lamas/

 

Listening to our conversation will prompt your thinking:

  • How conversations with partners are key in negotiating the challenges of academic dual careers

  • How choosing what you need (more stability and more support) can give you the courage to become empowered and take control

  • How the transition to the PI role becomes a privilege and a responsibility to create opportunities for others

 
 
 

Necessity pushes you. Because I had no other choice than, breaking my mental barriers about speaking with people that I don’t know, and then I started doing it.
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