Introduction

Hello! If you are here, probably you are doing a research (BSc/MSc/PhD/postdoc/…) project with me (Veronika). I'm excited to be working together! ✨

This goal of this repository is to help you be successful as an earlier-career researcher, and to help me be successful as a research advisor.

Values

Our lab mainly focuses on improving the use of machine learning methods in medical image analysis. In the early history of the lab this meant developing methods which can learn from a limited amount of labeled data, such as transfer learning. But the focus is now increasingly on evaluating whether these methods are reliable and robust, and whether they generalize to other types of data. I want the lab to be a place where everybody is excited about the research with do, and how we do it.

Although we will work on different projects, I think the key is to act as a team working towards a common goal. On the science side, this means focusing on the quality of the research, openly sharing our (positive and negative) results and contributing to the research community. On the team side, this means supporting each other both with successes and failures, and motivating each other to be the best researchers and team members that we can be. To achieve this, I hope that as a lab we can do the following:

• We search for important questions to answer, and not just to get state-of-the-art performance in an application.
• We read broadly and try to connect different parts of the literature to create new insights - often by brainstorming together.
• We work together, share any successes or failures, and help each other out in case of problems
• We work on creating things that others can use, both within and outside the lab. This means writing preprints or blog posts, sharing reproducible code with good documentation, and building up useful resources (such as a list of relevant literature, toolboxes, best practices etc).
• We set deadlines for finishing the projects we work on, for example by submitting the work to a journal or conference. A project is successful if we are proud of the work we did and shared it with the rest of the world (for example, as a preprint). Getting it accepted is a bonus.
• We take initiative and actively contribute to the lab, and suggest ways to improve the process further

Expectations

The goal of this document is to establish what I expect from you, and what you can expect from me. Having an understanding of our mutual expectations is key to the success of a student/supervisor relationship.

My expectations of you

• I expect you to put your physical and mental health first. If you are having problems, please tell me about it. You do not need to tell me what is going on, but I will try to point you to places that can help.
• I expect that you will behave responsibly with your time. You should work on your project "full-time", but not more than that. For PhD projects and MSc projects (30 ECTS in one semester) this is roughly 36 hours per week, for other projects this scales with the ECTS involved. I do not expect you to spend all of that time at university. But, I expect that you will be in the lab at least some of the time that overlaps with others.
• I expect you to be in charge of your project and keep track of what you need to do on a todo list. Add any tasks that come up during a meeting to your todo list.
• I expect that you will respect my time by preparing in advance for meetings. There will be circumstances when this is not possible (such as illness), please try to let me know in advance.