“My time at SVKM truly changed who I am and who I still want to become professionally and personally. The culture at SVKM fostered the sharing of ideas, critical discussions, and collaboration among students and faculty across a wide range of interests. I think it’s rare to find (if not unique to SVKM) to have a large group of people with entirely different methodological and theoretical backgrounds enthusiastically discuss a common topic. At SVKM that happened every week. What I loved about the SVKM faculty was that they always entertained new ideas no matter where they came from; even if, and especially when, they were challenging to their own work. But I did not only learn from them. I learned equally much from my fellow Ph.D. students who became my friends and family and with whom I still work with and learn from today.”