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%