{"id":28301,"date":"2013-08-01T06:54:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T06:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/?p=28301"},"modified":"2023-11-05T07:02:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T07:02:13","slug":"giovanni-writes-how-we-feel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/blog\/2013\/08\/giovanni-writes-how-we-feel\/","title":{"rendered":"Giovanni writes How We Feel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Eleven years after leaving EMBL, Giovanni Frazzetto \u2013 joint-recipient of the first John Kendrew Award in 2008 \u2013 is now the academic coordinator of a new programme at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study, known as Wiko (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWiko is a cultural paradise,\u201d Giovanni says. \u201cIt attracts scholars from the widest possible spectrum of academic fields and traditions \u2013 science, the social sciences, the humanities, and the arts \u2013 and gives them the freedom to concentrate on projects of their own choice for one academic year on a Wiko Fellowship. I myself was a Wiko research fellow in 2007.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI lead a programme called College for Life Sciences. It gives early-career researchers a unique opportunity to step back from their routine work and gain time to reflect on their area of study, while being immersed in a diverse and stimulating cultural network. My job is to select the fellows and guide them during their residency, facilitating synergies between them and other in-house scholars or research institutes in Berlin.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Giovanni also finds time to continue his own research and writing, recently finishing How We Feel, published 1 August. \u201cIn it, I mix scientific knowledge with personal experience to offer an account of the contrast between the science and poetry of emotions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"vf-figure wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"669\" height=\"1024\" class=\"vf-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/How-We-Feel-669x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/How-We-Feel-669x1024.jpg 669w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/How-We-Feel-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/How-We-Feel-768x1176.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/How-We-Feel-1003x1536.jpg 1003w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/How-We-Feel-1337x2048.jpg 1337w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/How-We-Feel-scaled.jpg 1672w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 669px) 100vw, 669px\" \/><figcaption class=\"vf-figure__caption\">Giovannni&#8217;s first book, published Aug 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>His advice to all pre- and postdocs at EMBL is to never stop looking at the greater picture, be original, and make the most of the lively discussions at EMBL seminars, the lack of hierarchy and the fluidity among departmental programmes \u2013 even at the beer sessions!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Early career researchers looking to gain time and inspiration can look into the unique opportunities offered by wiko:<br>www.wiko-berlin.de\/cfls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven years after leaving EMBL, Giovanni Frazzetto \u2013 joint-recipient of the first John Kendrew Award in 2008 \u2013 is now the academic coordinator of a new programme at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study, known as Wiko (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin). \u201cWiko is a cultural paradise,\u201d&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"embl_taxonomy":[],"class_list":["post-28301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"embl_taxonomy_terms":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_1338.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28313,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28301\/revisions\/28313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28301"},{"taxonomy":"embl_taxonomy","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embl_taxonomy?post=28301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}