Join our PhD skills lab mental health edition on November 21! We hope to provide you all the skills you need to keep yourself positive, happy, and stress free during your PhD.
The afternoon will be filled with talks about stress management, tips for healthy sleep and resilience. Join workshops on different topics, including Theatre Skills for Scientific Talks, Mindfulness and Authenticity. The event will be held at Amstel (Location VUmc) from 13:00 – 18:30, with a borrel at the end.
Registration is free.
Christiaan Vinkers is a psychiatrist and professor at the UMC Amsterdam (VUmc) and conducts research into stress and resilience. He obtained his doctorate in 2009 on the relationship between stress, GABA and autonomous temperature responses. Before starting medicine, he studied pharmacy and law. His interests are in biological psychiatry, the neurobiology of stress, the GABA system, psychiatry and law, and psychiatry and philosophy. As a member of The Young Academy of the KNAW , he actively promotes the importance of scientific research to society. In 2017 the book Even Slikken came out about the sense and nonsense of antidepressants that he wrote with Roeland Vis. His research focuses on predicting who develops psychiatric complaints due to stress, and how we can fundamentally better understand human resilience.
Fail early, fail often, fail forward.
I strongly believe that the most important quality one should have for making a career in science is not intelligence, is not charisma, is not networking capacity, but RESILIENCE instead. Doing science means working in between what is known and what is unknown, and making mistakes is not only normal, but even necessary. Knowing better yourself, your ability, your strong and weak points is key to better shape who you are, and greatly design your career path in science. A career path that is changing continuously. You start as a student where your main responsibility is performing the experiments, and in a few years you become a PI leading other people, mainly outside the lab. And nobody is really teaching you how to survive and adapt to this change. In this seminar I’ll share with you what I’ve learn from my experience and how resilience and passion made me persevere in this amazing world of science.
Gosse is a medical doctor and a PhD-candidate at the department of psychiatry in the Amsterdam UMC, where he studies Deep Brain Stimulation as a treatment for patients with severe, treatment-resistant depressions. Although he is not a sleep scientist, Gosse has some hands-on experience with sleep in the context of mentale health. His presentation will provide some practical tips to optomise your sleep in support of your mental health during your PhD and beyond.
Registration
13:00-13:30
Welcome and introduction
13:30-13:35
Keynote speaker: Prof. dr. Christiaan Vinkers
13:35 – 14:10
Keynote speaker and discussion panel: Gosse Mol
14:10-14:45
Break
14:45-15:00
Workshops
15:00-16:30
Break
16:30-16:45
Keynote speaker: Dr. Roberto Narcisi
16:45-17:25
Closing
17:25-17:30
Borrel
17:30-18:30