Dr. Annika Vauth is a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Erika Garutti at the Institute of Experimental Physics of Universität Hamburg. In 2020, she successfully applied for seed funding with PIER. In an interview, she talked with us about her research idea, the difficulties of realizing a project in times of a pandemic, and how the experience as PI has helped her further development as a researcher. Click here to read the interview.