#81 — <a href="https://www.kth.se/profile/testa">Ilaria Testa</a> is an Associate Professor in the Science for Life Laboratory at <a href="https://ki.se/en">Karolinska Institutet Science Park</a>. In this episode of The Microscopists, Ilaria joins Peter O'Toole for a candid chat about the challenges and triumphs of grant writing and balancing family life with groundbreaking science.She also talks about her love for Magritte's paintings because they challenge our perceptions and her lab's award-winning cake shaped like a neuron. Watch or listen to all episodes of The Microscopists: <a href="http://themicroscopists.bitesizebio.com/">http://themicroscopists.bitesizebio.com/</a>

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The Microscopists is a podcast from Bitesize Bio and ZEISS Microscopy that takes you into revealing, entertaining, and personal meetings with the great microscopists of our time. Your host is Dr Peter O’Toole. Peter will help you understand what drives great, successful scientists, what really inspires them and what they enjoy most in life. 
 
This set of candid, fun, and engaging interviews serves not only to help inspire upcoming scientists but to show how career tracks and work-life balance are managed by some of the best. Not only are they great at work, but they have some amazing stories to tell about their lives outside science.

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