Today's guest is Mateja Erce, a PhD student in Renewable Materials for Healthy Built Environments at the University of Primorska in Slovenia and a ReMO Ambassador. In the first part of our conversation, we talk about some of the challenges that researchers face in their careers, both at personal and systemic level, including a misleading perception of the job, which leads to wrong expectations. We talk about the pressure to produce as much as possible, without a ceiling, a clear notion of how much is enough; finally, we talk about the intensive intellectual labor (as opposed to physical labor) and the competition among colleagues even within the same group or team. In the second part of our conversation, I will ask Mateja to talk about how things would look right to her, not really a plan for action, but a description of what a healthy, functional, reasonable and realistic scenario would look like in her opinion. Thank you for listening to this podcast. For more episodes, please check out our website, at remo-network.eu