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What is your name?<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n
Dana Gawlitzek<\/p>\n
Where are you from?<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n
San Francisco, USA<\/p>\n
To which class do you belong?<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n
MSc Translational Neuroscience 2024\/25<\/p>\n
Where and what did you study before joining Imperial College London?<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n
I studied neuroscience (BS) at American University in Washington, DC<\/p>\n
How did you find your Master’s experience at the College?<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n
I found the Master\u2019s program to be both challenging and highly rewarding. The skills I developed and the research techniques I was exposed to, particularly in neuroimaging and neurostimulation, proved invaluable. The MSc program ultimately shaped me into a more well-rounded and capable scientist<\/p>\n
Which research project did you work on?<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n
My project was titled \u201cInvestigating the role of anxiety on vestibular control of balance during step initiation\u201d and I was supervised by Dr. Toby J. Ellmers<\/p>\n
Where are you now?\u00a0<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n
I am now joining the lab of Professor Charlotte Grosse Wiesmann at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, as a research assistant and will be transitioning to a PhD position after 6 months<\/p>\n
What are you working on?<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n
I will be working on a project investigating the theory of mind development in children using fMRI<\/p>\n
What is the most important lesson you learnt as a\u00a0Master\u2019s\u00a0student?<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n
The most important lesson I learned during my Master\u2019s was the value of adaptability in research. Initially, I felt nervous about the project I was assigned, as it focused on a topic I knew little about and involved techniques with which I had no experience. However, as I engaged with the work, I realised it offered opportunities to develop new skills and perspectives that I hadn\u2019t anticipated. In the end, the project proved to be both highly rewarding and a valuable learning experience, and I emerged with a much broader skill set than I had anticipated. This taught me that being open-minded and flexible can often lead to growth in ways I couldn\u2019t have predicted<\/p>\n
How did the Master\u2019s programme help you get to where you are now?<\/b><\/p>\n
The skills and experience I gained through my independent research project were instrumental in securing my current research position and demonstrating that I had completed a research project from start to finish, from experimental design to data analysis and write-up, which highlighted both my technical abilities and research independence, which proved to be a valuable and compelling aspect of my applications<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What is your name? Dana Gawlitzek Where are you from? San Francisco, USA To which class do you belong? MSc Translational Neuroscience 2024\/25 Where and what did you study before joining Imperial College London? I studied neuroscience (BS) at American University in Washington, DC How did you find your Master’s experience at the College? I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1219,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"yoast_head":"\n