Karin Bodewits
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Karin Bodewits

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Karin Bodewits was born April, 1983, in a small village in the economically dead North East of the Netherlands. As a child she mainly caught frogs and leapt over ditches. When life became meaningful (though not necessarily better), she dreamt about travelling the world as a biologist and matriculated at the University of Groningen. Six amiable student years later, blurred by pub visits and lengthy ‘work’ sojourns in China and Spain, she graduated with an MSc in molecular biology and was increasingly gripped by science. Having acquired a taste for travel and cultural enrichment, and perhaps a bizarre yearning to return to drizzle, she moved to the wonderful, historic city of Edinburgh, capital of Scotland, to start her PhD. Despite a ludicrous intake of Irn Bru (a chemical drink unique to Scotland) along with mountainous amounts of fried pizza and dubious frat-ish parties, she successfully defended her thesis in 2011. Feeling like a lost soul, she backpacked round South America, not knowing what would or should come next. These days she writes, gives soft skill and career seminars to young scientists, and is often invited to speak at natural science events, and participates in Science Slams. She writes short stories, career columns and opinion pieces for magazines like Chemistry World, Naturejobs, Laborjournal and Nachrichen aus der Chemie. With her partner Philipp and their two sons, she lives in Munich, where she spend much time wondering what to do next.
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