We’re bringing you the best stories on lab mobility from Nature India

Beginning this week, we will take a peek into the lives of Indian postdocs working in foreign labs. Our blog series ‘Away from home’ will feature one postdoc every Tuesday recounting his/her experience of working in a foreign lab, the triumphs and challenges, the culture factor, tips for Indian postdocs headed abroad and what he/she misses most about India.

Kangkan Halder

Teeing off the series for us is Kangkan Halder, who completed his doctoral thesis at the Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology (IGIB), New Delhi and is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Applied Synthetic Biology Group at the University of Göttingen, Germany.

Science and I

I am not sure what really got me interested in science, but I guess I was plain curious about things. I also liked the idea that in science there is a specific answer/reason for a specific question/observation. On the other hand, for any generalization there is always an exception too! And I was really curious to know these exceptions.
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