Werner Frings

...always in good memory, as it was the starting point for an exciting development - personal as well as professional.

Diploma in 1994, PhD in 1998, the different postdoc positions in German, change to pharmaceutical industry, living and working in Japan, now back in Germany

I almost was denied my PhD position because of having the wrong gender „Frauen sind bevorzugt einzustellen";. It took my (female) professor much effort to hire me... :)

The lack of proper tests. With that I was always feeling uncertain if I had learned enough and was motivated to learn for myself. Sadly enough, I saw others fail who believed they were good but did not have a good self-assessment.