キャリアニュース2020年11月6～13日

“Why have I traded my private office for a desk in a shared room?” I wondered. “Will I get any work done?” It was my first day at my new co-working space on the outskirts of town, 10 kilometers from my university. “I'm here on sabbatical,” I announced to my new officemates. They were directors of tech startups, unaccustomed to mingling with geoscientists like me. I desperately needed some breathing space away from the pressures of university life, but I wasn't totally convinced it would work out. I needn't have worried. The co-working space turned out to be the perfect environment for rebooting my flailing research career. > “I found the fast-moving, entrepreneurial environment exhilarating.” Before my sabbatical, I was on the verge of leaving academia. Six years into an assistant professorship, I felt trapped in my narrow specialty: the science of how volcanic eruptions unearth diamonds. My work had been well funded by the diamond industry when I was a grad student and postdoc. B