This miniseries features the tradition of ‘PhD hat’ making in German research institutes and universities. For those of you unfamiliar with this idea (as I once was), this is one of the final milestones a graduate student has before they are officially a “Dr.”. Upon the successful defense of a thesis, the labmates of the PhD student craft a graduation hat from a mishmash of scrap cardboard and mem ...[Read More]
Cryosphere Caps: PhD hats and the researchers that wear them – Episode 5
Figure 1: The Zugzpitze mountain in Garmish, Germany. Here, our interviewee (Prof. Micahel Krautblatter) has spent countless hours of his PhD thesis research, and continues to visit the mountain in his reasearch as a senior researcher at the Technical University of Munich [Credit: Wikipedia, user Octagon]