Welcome to my “Life & Ph.D” site. Here and in all my work I support people who are embarked on a difficult quest. People who want to develop something important to themselves. Often something ambitious. They face the ups and downs of a long-term, personal project with little or no external structure and often not much support. It can be a Ph.D (my main specialty), freelancedom, a book project for
example, or “just” life. In such projects, though fascinating, there are confusing moments, desperating moments, doubts. A Ph.D, for instance, can certainly bring you to your limits. You go way beyond the usual challenges you had mastered before. The new challenges have a different, sometimes unexpected quality. A Ph.D, among other things, works like a mirror that throws back a candid image of yourself. What you see in that mirror is not always what you expected and not always something you like. I help you look into that mirror with the curiosity of a scientist, even if the first impulse is to look away. You embrace that image, learn what there is to learn and advance. Let’s go through the mirror together and step into a life in which you pursue your project and feel your progress. Or in which you decide, after seeing yourself in that mirror, to quit or redefine the project to suit you better. And you feel your progress.
