Today was pretty much the day, where we could feel that winter is entirely over, especially after the rain we experienced last week. As always, the weather forecast was predicting cloudy weather. Tell me what you think after taking a…

As some of you may already know, whenever I organize something, it never rains. This magical power was unfortunately not as strong as what would be required to stop the bad weather in Germany. So, today, after two sessions with…

March 8, sometime in the afternoon, I wrote a message to the mailing list of Ph.D students at MPI, announcing the hiking to Ratingen. At my institute in France, I had a hard time going out with my colleagues (although…

When you think of Ruhr region, you may think of the densely populated cities and extremely narrow apartments. In reality though, this city, Düsseldorf, offers quite a lot of nature, without going so far away. This time, we went to…