#50 - Tables Turned: Part 2 - Personal reflections on Switzerland vs. favourite places, academia, nature, music, my career and much more…

To celebrate 50 episodes of The Grand Challengers Podcast (main series), we return with another "Tables Turned" episode, this time featuring 26 questions from guests as early as Episode 2. Guests from across the show got to ask me a question of their choosing and I have compiled them into a special episode titled "Tables Turned". In this episode, I reflect on Switzerland, the importance of music in my life, academia and where I am heading in my recent decision to start my own company. Join me in this beautiful moment of looking back on my own journey once again and to learn more about me!

Podcast Intro/Outro Song: Astral Dance by Jimit (Check out more of Jimit's tunes over on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0hc1IxPxpmUgEIZGGUGrvm?si=z_uif82xQoqAqUy8KpB7JQ)

Chapters:
0:00 Preamble & Intro
1:33 Introducing the special episode
3:36 The Old New Year’s Resolution (Jon Hathaway)
5:53 The house plant saga (Daniele la Cecilia)
7:42 Favourite places around the world (Bill Hunt)
9:45 The Matrix of different worlds (Patri Cuervo)
12:34 Hiking in Switzerland (Jon Hathaway)
15:32 The Swiss Train System? (Alexa Delbosc)
17:10 Zurich vs. Melbourne (Jarrod Luxton)
19:51 Switzerland vs. Singapore (João P. Leitão)
22:43 The next big physical challenge (Denise Mitrano)
24:44 Collaboration vs. competition in academia (Katrin Pakizer)
28:20 Different academic challenges (Luis Sañudo)
32:59 Unlimited Research Resources (Megan Farrelly)
35:14 The 5 to 10-year plan (Liah Coggins & Nadja Kunz)
41:30 Bridging differences in collaboration (Scott Lloyd)
43:13 What nature is to me (Lucas Gobatti)
45:13 Favourite BGI (Danielle Dagenais)
47:02 WSUD vs. Sponge Cities (Tobias Baur)
48:44 Synergies between mining and BGI (Mohan Yellishetty)
50:56 How is the industry progressing with circularity? (Don Weatherbee)
53:16 Changing the world with technology (Yannick Back)
55:32 Modelling and software bugs (Peter Vanrolleghem)
57:27 A tribute to Anas Ghadouani
1:02:21 The importance of music in my life (Françoise Bichai)
1:07:52 Sounds of intimacy (Sofia Boarino)
1:12:45 Keeping a positive mindset (Wei-Shan Chen)
1:17:45 Wrap up
1:18:20 Outro

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