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Hi there, I'm finally back. After a few months of silence, I’m ready to talk about why I disappeared—and what I’ve learned about burnout along the way. This post isn’t just about stress or exhaustion; it’s about the small, quiet signs that show up before things fall apart. The ones we often ignore. With help from therapy, my brilliant mentor Julia, and some painful trial and error, I’ve started learning how to spot those early warnings—and how to protect the space where creativity, clarity and joy can actually survive. If you’ve been feeling a little off lately, maybe this post is for you. 
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I had the pleasure of being invited by the Institute of Genetics and Cancer in Edinburgh to write for Ada Lovelace Day. The post can be found here, but I thought about sharing it here as well. Coming from a computational background, Ada is a huge inspiration to me—she taught me to pair imagination with method, and to fight for the time and space ideas need. In this piece I talk about the conditions that make creativity possible—and how often they’re withheld, especially from women—and share practical ways to open up space and time for each other. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I loved writing it. If it resonates, get in touch—I’m always up for this conversation.  Being cross-disciplinary is a gift but it can also trigger a deep identity crisis. Am I a physicist? A biologist? An image analyst? An expert… in what, exactly? Here I dive into what I think it really means to be an expert when you work between fields, and how I’ve learned to stop apologising for it. If you’ve ever felt like you don’t quite fit, this one’s for you.  I could start this by listing my credentials, my achievements, the institutions I’ve worked at, the awards, the papers—all the usual stuff people parade around to prove they’re worth listening to. But honestly? That’s not what I want this space to be about. So let’s start again. Hi, I’m Lu.  |
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