Notes from the lab bench
Research is mostly patience, and patience leaves a lot of time to think. These are the pieces that came out of it: some about science, some about the path itself, a few just me wondering aloud. No reviewers, no equations, no polish.
Five pieces
The Idiot Does Not Win, but the Room Changes
Dostoevsky's Prince Myshkin, a cold room at a party, and why kindness still changes the room even when it does not win.
Read the essay → 6 min On sticky business · 2017An Ode to the Broken Cup
Adapted from the introduction to my master's thesis on adhesion in rough-surface contact. The enthusiasm is original and unedited.
Read the essay → 5 min On the path so far · 2023–2025What time in industry gave me
The industry-to-academia path, and what a production floor and an applications lab taught me before the postdoc.
Read the essay → 3 min On curiosity · 2026What keeps me interested in surfaces
How I think about surfaces that fail, and why the questions still feel new.
Read the essay → 3 min On anime and metallurgy · 2026The Real Science of Nichirin Blades
What a metallurgist sees in Demon Slayer: why blades take colour, why they break, and why the swordsmith is the most realistic character in the show.
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