20- Dr Katharina Jähn-Rickert- Collaborating away from the big egos

Research lives and cultures

Dr Katharina Jähn-Rickert discuss with Dr Sandrine Soubes about collaboration.

Not many people can say that they have had one of their experiments taken into space. Whilst Katharina did not get onto the astronomer career track, it did not stop her from having some of her experiments on bone biology make it into space.

I ask Katharina to reflect on her approaches to initiating and developing collaborations. She experienced early on the good and the ugly in collaboration, when she lost access to some equipment that was needed for her research. This led her to revisit her approach to her research and opened new doors of interest. Katharina talks about taking the time to get people to know where you are coming from research-wise. She reminds us that much of the challenges in research environments are not the experiments, but the big egos of some researchers.
The conversation will get you to think about:

Could the loss of a research avenue become the best gift for your research direction?

Could an organic approach to initiating collaboration through just engaging in one-to-one deep conversations be the formula for the shy and introvert researchers?

Do your collaborators know what drives you regarding your publication outputs?
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