It turns out I was fortunate enough to receive the Sir Henry Fellowship from Wellcome Trust. This is a four-year international fellowship that will allow me to spend some time at UC Davis, California as well as University of Oxford, focusing on interdisciplinary investigation of diabetic arrhythmogenesis. It was certainly an interesting and person-developing experience (obviously viewed more favourably given the outcome). I had the advantage of working under/with highly successful people who gave me valuable advice about the process and requirements. I am quite sure that I would not have gotten the fellowship without the support of Profs. Manuela Zaccolo, Blanca Rodriguez, and Don Bers, to whom I'm deeply grateful. However, not everyone has such nice and investing-in-you supervisors and beyond very generic advice, there is very little information on the internet on what the process of applying for junior fellowship entails [1]. The aim of this text is to share some findings I ma...
We’ve reached the end of this series – I hope it was at least somewhat interesting and useful. Despite my not-fully-serious suggestion to avoid model development if you can, I think the process is quite a unique experience that may change quite a lot how one perceives computer models. In my case, it definitely made me appreciate much more the limitations as well as strengths of computer models and it transformed the way how I read and interpret modelling papers. Even though I've got low number of observations, my impression is that model developers are far more critical of models (theirs included) than model users. This is however probably nothing new – people developing lab protocols also seem to me more aware of caveats of the methodology than people who use it more or less as a black box. Beyond being transformative with regards to computer modelling, making a model may be really useful for one’s physiological intuition. Given one has to go deeper to develop a model compar...