How I spent my time in Summer 2025
Summer 2025 has been rather intense. Whereas I usually feel like I get a bit of breathing room during my summer research stay, this year has been super busy.
As in the past periods, my main focus is on writing proposals. I do not have a single project approved for 2026, so my hours are not covered and I have no travel budget. My projects and funding has been smooth sailing since my PhD days – and it is the first time that I have this difficulty in securing funding. Not fun.
Here’s the breakdown of how I spent my time:
- Research proposals – 20.46%
- Research – 14.36%
- Papers – 10.65%
- Service – 9.67%
- BEST – 6.34%
- ACI Avances – 5.7%
- Meeting TU – 4.23%
- Teaching TU – 4.23%
- Teaching USFQ – 3.86%
- PhD Student 1 project – 3.17%
- Admin – 3.02%
- PhD Student 2 project – 1.9%
- Fire safety project– 1.58%
- Planning – 1.5%
- Email + admin – 1.34%
- PhD Student 3 project – 1.07%
- PhD Student 4 project – 1.01%
- Blog – 1%
- Poligrant 2025 – 0.89%
- PhD Student 5 project – 0.83%
- HUC Seed Fund CIRCA – 0.69%
- PhD Student 6 project – 0.64%
- Poligrant Vinculación 2025 – 0.49%
- Cooperation Denmark – 0.34%
- PhD Student 7 project – 0.31%
- Meetings (general) – 0.27%
- Without project – 0.22% -> where I forgot to properly track my time
- PhD Student 8 project – 0.2%
- PhD Student 9 project – 0.06%
