Maryam looks slightly dazed for good reason – she has just handed in her PhD thesis – well inside the time allowed. Along the way, she decided that moving country to do a PhD wasn’t sufficiently challenging and so upped the stakes by becoming a mother for the first time. That *still* seems to have been too easy, so I’m interested to see what the next challenge is that she sets herself! Congratulations Maryam – amazing effort – I am seriously impressed…