• Question: What is your biggest achievement and your biggest failure

    Asked by anon-40701 on 11 Nov 2022. This question was also asked by anon-40694.
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      Vincent Monchal answered on 11 Nov 2022:

      My biggest achievement was to discover a new event that affected Ireland 35 million years ago that was not known before.
      My biggest failure was to spend 3 days in Scotland for a fieldtrip and when I analyse the samples taken during that trip, they were all useless.

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      Vanessa Rodrigues answered on 12 Nov 2022:

      It is important to me to stay positive. I do not see things that do not work out as failures, but as stepping stones to success. This is my source of self-motivation and helps me continue learning.

      Achievement: I am the first PhD graduate in my family. The number of female scientists in my country is still very low, and I get to encourage women to gain a higher education.

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      Ingmar Schoen answered on 14 Nov 2022:

      For me personally the biggest achievement is that both my wife and I have managed to find permanent jobs at Universities in the same city, which is not easy at all. The failures tend to be less dramatic (but also more frequent) in comparison, so there is not a single ‘biggest’ one.

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      Anna Desmond answered on 14 Nov 2022:

      My biggest achievements were finishing school and passing my driving test. I don’t have a biggest failure but I have had failures in my life so far but I choose to learn from my mistakes instead of thinking what I didn’t achieve.

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      Rupal Srivastava answered on 14 Nov 2022:

      I would say receiving the Marie Curie Postdoc Fellowship is my biggest achievement to date. As far as failure is concerned, there have been many, but none stands out as the biggest. So I would say I have learnt many tough lessons in the past.

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      Lyndsey Moore answered on 14 Nov 2022:

      My biggest achievement so far is probably graduating with my BSc in Biochemistry and starting my PhD. I don’t really measure my failures, but there have certainly been hurdles! I failed my first driving test, which is the one that stands out for me the most.

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