These days, I am pretty busy. I didn’t expect to perform experiments but now I have to run the experiment and do conferences. I also am preparing documents for VISA applications. I should finish one by one.
I am doing many measurements before the end of the year. It has been slower than before. Maybe I need to do many experiments again to get used to again. I used to do the experiment much faster. Anyways, I will do many experiments so I can be better.
This year, my achievement is not good. I will be just finishing my evaluation this year. Especially the number of paper is much less than usual, maybe it could be the worst. However, now I am preparing a lot for the future. So the publications for next year should be much better.
After 2 years in the US and 7 years in Australia, it is almost 10 years after the PhD, I am now finally starting my projects. That’s my feeling. I have more collaborators and connections than before and slowly starting the project with some good ideas. Also, so finally I am actively creating the science project and start solving it my own way. It took maybe 10 years after PhD, also it could be much slower than compared to other scientists but I am enjoying it now. I will do as much as I can while I can.
To study good science, it is good to have nice large single crystals. If you have a nice large single crystal, we have many things to do, it takes 2-3 years to finish the project but surely we can publish the project. For science, we don’t know what kind of projects actually works until it works. So, forget about the strategy, we should study many things so we might be able to get nice results. Each project takes time to finish but I can learn by performing experiments and analysis. Then I should finish the paper one by one.
So the project, I have to prepare the single crystal, do literature reviews, write proposals, do the experiments, then do the analysis and calculations, and write the papers. I sometimes need to make presentations too. I will try to do better in every step so I can learn more about physics. So I can really do nice science. I am looking forward to writing more papers to get that paper published.
I don’t know how long I can do this but currently, I would like to do more and be more productive. I enjoy writing with good data set. Let’s do as much as I can every day.