until 2014...

Hard to believe that I am starting my 4th week here in Dresden. Thankfully, my arrival coincided with the World Cup. One makes fast friends when one enjoys sports and rooting for the home team, not to mention beer drinking...

Some documentation of the many Deutschland matches I've attended:

Watching the Group of 16 match against England

The crowd celebrates the first goal in the quarterfinal against Argentina

Many a frei bier at Waldschlösschen - 8 in all over 2 matches

The only picture I took the night of the loss to Spain at the Red Rooster...

The crowd at Fähregarten celebrates the small final victory over Uruguay

the CBG and me

Here's a little tour around my new work digs. The building, designed by Finish and German architects, has housed about 400 scientists from over 30 countries comprising 25 research groups since 2001 in its unique space. The MPI-CBG also brought about the "Dresden Model" - a research institution that limits hierarchy of resources for the better pursuit of science.

The Germans call the ground floor the Eingang or entrance, not level 1 - which means working on the 4th floor means I climb up 4 flights of stairs to get to lab.

Can't do the science without the caffeine!

Or something to eat. Our canteen serves pretty good food. And it's subsidized, so it's a bargain!