Building a Better Future for Science | Challenges in Academia with Prof. Tiago F. Outeiro

Are we evaluating scientists in the wrong way?

In this episode of Neuroscience and Beyond, Prof. Dr. Tiago Outeiro discusses some of the biggest challenges facing science:

🔬 Too many researchers competing for too few positions

📉 Pressure to publish and overreliance on impact factors

🤝 The urgent need for more staff scientists and stable research careers

⚖️ Burnout, work-life balance, and changing academic culture

🚀 How AI and new technologies may reshape scientific research

“We need to work together from the top to the bottom, from the bottom to the top to try to change things.”

Prof. Dr. Tiago Fleming Outeiro is Professor of Aggregopathies and Director of the Department of Experimental Neurodegeneration at the University Medical Center Göttingen. His research focuses on the molecular mechanisms behind neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, and Alzheimer’s disease, with the goal of developing new therapeutic approaches.

To learn more about his research, watch our episode on Parkinson’s Disease: Early Diagnostics and the Future of Treatment: https://youtu.be/dFmhmOv75q0?si=GcQ1UsTGYSpcDnMV

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Supported by the International Max Planck Research School for Neurosciences in #Göttingen, the European Neuroscience Institute, Cluster of Excellence Multiscale Bioimaging, as well as SFB1286

Neuroscience and Beyond team:

Svilen Georgiev

Kristina Jevdokimenko

Ahsen Konaç Sayıcı

Laura van Agen