In this episode, we welcome Simon Batzner. His way into academia included some twists and turns, but a few years ago he ended up at the University of Stuttgart to pursue his Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace engineering. After that he acquire his Master’s Degree in Computational Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and started to pursue his PhD in Applied Mathematics at Harvard University in 2019. In his doctoral research, he focuses on deep learning. We are happy to welcome him in our podcast to talk about how he found his way into science, the differences between German and US-American universities and his exciting PhD research.