Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Zurich...

...it is after all! 2 weeks to go before I move, again. The big world of solar cell production in Berlin proved to be a bit too distant from my sheltered research life to date. My whimsical and impulsive approach to experiments had been replaced with goal-driven planning and motivation. I learned how to write experiments in the smallest details and analyse and report the results without ever seeing a solar cell - a different world indeed. While my helter-skelter ways did need a bit of organizing, I'm afraid being 100% methodical is not a sustainable work style for me. I hope that I will be able to find a balance between the two worlds in Zurich. I'll be working with flexible CIGS solar cells at a tiny spin-off company from ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) with a tremendous amount of work needed before any solar cells roll off a production line. I think I'll like it!