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Why I got a PhD at age 61

A chance meeting at a scientific retreat took Zoltán Kócsi from the electronics industry to the entomology lab.
  1. Zoltán Kócsi

    1. Zoltán Kócsi is the owner and director of Bendor Research in Canberra, Australia, and a PhD student in neuroethology at the Australian National University in Canberra.

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I am not a typical graduate student. An engineer by training, I have designed electronic control systems for more than 30 years, and I had expected to do so until I retired.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00949-z

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  1. Cullen, K. M., Kócsi, Z. & Stone, J. Neurobiol. Aging 27, 1786–1796 (2006).

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