In this episode of the podcast, we talk about scientific collaboration. We discuss the kind of mindset you can pursue when starting a collaboration, about being open to new collaborations, and about being brave. Because collaborating can be a lot of fun, and in our experience it also takes courage to engage with someone you don't know upfront and suggest to do something together. So that's why we say "Sharing is caring, but it is also daring" 

For this episode, we have a special guest, Dr. Florian Kuchenbauer, an established group leader with a lot of collaborators all over the globe. Florian has been all over the place, as we like to say "there and back again" ;-) and he has made very useful experiences finding and setting up new collaborations in his career. 

So bear with us, because in the  episode of the podcast, we talk about exciting topics, such as: 

• How turning group leader was the most difficult step for Florian
• Why Florian believes that combining work with life also applies to collaboration
• How to think of collaboration as a skill set that you can learn
• Why Florian believes that bidirectional trust is essential for fruitful collaborations
• How sometimes constraints can lead to being more creative about collaborations. For example, as Florian's supervisor was on sabbatical
• Why you should teach yourself to be proactive and take the step to approach people
• How to use hardship and difficult times in research to spark collaborations
• Why you always need to think of creating a win-win situation with a collaboration and how to do it

As you can see, this is an episode full of very interesting aspects of scientific collaboration. Florian is great fun to talk to and super energetic, so we are sure that you will find this episode of the podcast not only informative but also very entertaining!

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