In general, an academic considers themselves very lucky if they can find any academic job at all, let alone one in a particular city. Leaving your home country for a job is not uncommon and most academics have either considered it in order to succeed or have already experienced it themselves first hand. We leave our families, friends and sometimes relationships behind us to follow our academic dreams. But do you have to sacrifice everything to work in research? What if one day you decide to leave academia and pursue other goals? Is joining the industry or a 9-5 job really better when it comes to building a life and settling down? 

I talked to Dr. Diana Alatriste González about our shared love for science, our dislike of competing with others and how leaving academia has changed our lives (for the better).

Dr. Diana Alatriste González is a Biomedical Scientist who's seen the world! She was born and raised in Mexico City where she received her bachelor’s degree before she uprooted her life and moved to the Netherlands to pursue a master’s in Biomedical Sciences. The two years Diana spent there had a huge impact on her, both academically and personally. For her Doctoral Studies, she once again left her home to study the transport of proteins within neurons in Berlin.

Now, she pursues a profession outside the academic world as an Immigration expert helping people from all over the world to move to their destination country and promoting a world without borders.

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This episode was kindly supported by the Equal Opportunity Office of NeuroCure.
NeuroCure is a Cluster of Excellence in the neurosciences funded since 2007 by the German federal and state governments (Excellence Initiative).

The focus of the Cluster is on investigating neurological and psychiatric disorders. The aim of this interdisciplinary research network is to better understand disease mechanisms and to develop new therapies. Fostering local networks of scientists and their research activities lies at the heart of the Cluster’s efforts.  In addition, NeuroCure has established a significant number of new research groups as well as several technological platforms.

By promoting close cooperation between basic science and clinical research, the Cluster aims to more rapidly transfer findings from basic research to clinical application.

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https://neurocure.de/en/index.html

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