Collaborators
I am fortunate to work with incredible students, postdocs, collaborators and colleagues. Across the years these collaborations have brought me into the company of more than a thousand people and most of what I have produced as a scientist exists only because of their work.
The figure below is one attempt to picture that network. It is a polar timeline of the first and last authors of every paper I have co-signed, along with the middle authors I have collaborated with most frequently: each name sits on the outer ring at the angle of its first appearance, and each dot marks a publication, placed along the radius according to its year. I have kept the view to main collaborators, because plotting every contributor would render the figure unreadable, many wonderful collaborators are therefore not shown here. Names in bold are the students or postdocs I have worked with during their PhD training.
To everyone on this figure, and to the many more whose names are not on it, thank you. Science is, above all, a collective activity, and I am deeply grateful for the trust, the ideas, the energy and the friendship you have brought to our shared work. A special thank-you to the students who have honoured me by doing part of their training with me; working with you has been one of the great privileges of this job. And to the colleagues across the many partner institutions I have had the chance to work with over the years, your generosity has made every project possible.
