I published my dissertation on the genetic architecture of intellectual disability in Northern Finland in Feburary 2024.

This blog was originally posted on The Science Basement’s website.

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The night before my flight, I couldn’t sleep. Tossing and turning in bed, I tried in vain to quiet my mind and get a few hours before leaving for the airport at the awful hour of 5 am. Normally, my lovely brain simply wakes me up with a jolt of adrenaline in the middle of the night, convinced that I’ve overslept my alarm and missed my flight. But this time, it was different. I wasn’t even sure I wanted to get on the plane.

I had the opportunity to attend the International Summer School: Communicating Science in the summer of 2021, organized by Wissenschaft im Dialog in partnership with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

During the summer school, we wrote the Declaration on the Future of Science Communication, where we drafted the opportunities and obstacles to science communication in Europe and across the world.

You can find the Declaration on the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation website, here.