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As a young girl, Silvia Dias Almeida learned resolve from a mother who studied for her own university degree each night after the dinner table was cleared, and then again after she put a young Silvia to bed. Silvia\u2019s mother soon became an agronomic engineer, exemplifying the drive to succeed in science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maths and physics came easily to Silvia and seemed to lead her from one academic step to the next \u2013 a path that she thought would not go outside her Lisbon-area hometown in Portugal. It turned out that EMBL would help define the path ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Facilitated by EMBL\u2019s Scientific Visitor Programme<\/a> in 2019, Silvia spent a year in the Diz-Mu\u00f1oz group<\/a>. It helped her decide that a PhD was the right next step, and made her a unique candidate for her first-choice programme: the highly competitive biomedical imaging track at the DKFZ International PhD Programme in Heidelberg, as part of the International Graduate School for Cancer Research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cScientists and students from around the world come to EMBL to take advantage of state-of-the-art equipment and world-renowned scientific leadership,\u201d says Claudia Martin, who oversees the programme as an Administrator in EMBL\u2019s International Centre for Advanced Training. \u201cI think this programme reflects the EMBL principle very well: a member state sends their young scientists to EMBL, where they learn a lot and kick-start their scientific career, participate in collaborations, and ultimately bring knowledge and experience back to their home country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Silvia had completed bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees in biomedical engineering and medical image analysis, which would have enabled her to obtain an immediate position in industry. In fact, she analysed cancer medical images, even spending a year developing an algorithm to evaluate tumours using MRI images at Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown in Lisbon. But she wondered what other options were out there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She heard about a programme run by Funda\u00e7\u00e3o para a Ci\u00eancia e Tecnologia (FCT), a Portuguese public agency, based in Lisbon, that supports science, technology, and innovation. \u201cThey were financing people to go to big international organisations in Europe, including EMBL,\u201d says Silvia. \u201cI went from not knowing about EMBL to realising that this is a big institute with several sites doing incredible research.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EMBL has had an agreement with FCT since 2017, whereby FCT provides funding for up to two graduates to spend a year at EMBL. Silvia was the first to participate in the scheme. She believed that EMBL would help her experience life in an international research organisation for enough time that she could substantively contribute to research and gain exposure to other biological imaging and career development opportunities in the process. Six months after she applied to spend a year at EMBL, she was talking to EMBL group leader Alba Diz-Mu\u00f1oz about the role she might play in a lab that explores how physical forces and material properties regulate biological processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was nervous because Alba was doing research in a topic I wasn\u2019t familiar with,\u201d Silvia says. \u201cI worked with a PhD student, Ewa Sitarska. We\u2019d analyse movies of cells to see how they moved and behaved with other cells, then describe it computationally.\u201d The relationship between Silvia and Ewa proved so fruitful that they continue to collaborate even though Silvia is no longer at EMBL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At EMBL, Silvia also discovered numerous scientific lectures, career development talks, and professional conferences. \u201cI wasn\u2019t used to the variety of research topics, and they were presented by scientists from all over the world,\u201d she recalls. \u201cThe networking opportunities were impressive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A key moment came at an EMBL conference on image analysis, when M\u00f3nica Bettencourt-Dias, director of the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ci\u00eancia and an EMBO member, gave a talk. \u201cTo see a woman from Portugal speak at this international conference in Germany was honestly an inspiration,\u201d Silvia says. \u201cThere aren\u2019t as many opportunities in smaller countries because there\u2019s simply less funding. Yet her work was valued as a part of this overall conference \u2013 as part of the global conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Silvia likes to describe her experience at EMBL as having refined her scientific thinking and coding skills. It\u2019s also where she reconfirmed her interest in pursuing biomedical imaging, making her realise that she now needed a PhD. She knew where she wanted to do that, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, Silvia remains in Heidelberg for doctoral work at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), using computer tomography to better understand how primary diseases can give rise to secondary diseases that are even more deadly (for example, some types of cancer can give rise to coronary artery disease or diabetes). \u201cIt’s easy to get lost doing a PhD, if you don\u2019t have clear motivation,\u201d Silvia says. \u201cI found a great programme at EMBL, and it gave me the skills I needed. That was important. There are so many voices in your head that will say you\u2019re not good enough. But EMBL gave me the background and the confidence to look at myself as someone who can do this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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