Rock Your Research with Chris Jones

002: Work life balance is key to success according to Melissa Wilson Sayres

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Melissa discusses her personal challenges with impostor syndrome and finding balance in her life. Melissa realized that graduate school is her life… meaning there are no set hours, and it can be easy to neglect your personal life. She says that you have to make the time to enjoy your friends and family. And that work life balance will lead to being more successful in your science.

Dr. Melissa Wilson Sayres is an Assistant Professor in the School of Life Sciences and The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University. Her main research interests are in sex chromosome evolution, sex-biased processes, population genetics, and comparative genomics. Learn more about her research interests or read her blog.

Biggest Struggle
  • Impostor syndrome.
    • Worst Moment
    • Deleting many weeks worth of completed analysis.
      • Best Moment
      • Realizing that graduate school is her life... meaning that you are never finished but you need to be able to take time to enjoy other things.
        • Mindful Minutes Segment
        • Habit: Promptly answering emails.
        • Book:  At the Helm: Leading Your Laboratory by Kathy Barker.
        • Productivity Tool: Having a child (Not recommended as a means of getting more done) .
        • Best Advice: Not to take criticism personally.
        • Hobbies: Hiking with her family, talking with people, and having different science outlets
        • Alternative PhD study: Astronomy
          • Contact
          • Twitter
          • Email: [email protected]

            • Music: http://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music - Happy Rock

             

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