In this episode, we discuss how stress can actually be a good thing. There is an “upside” to stress, especially with the right attitude. If you shift your mindset, you can increase the quality and length of your life. Tune in to this important discussion on how certain kinds of stress give meaning to life and how to distinguish this from chronic, debilitating types of stress that diminish the quality of life. Find a new way to perceive the stressors in your life and make this your superpower!
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Dr. Austyn Matheson is originally from Calgary, Canada. She has a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering (Bio specialization) from Queen’s University Canada. After this, she briefly worked in the Oil and Gas industry as a facilities engineer before venturing to Ireland to do a Masters of Bioengineering at Trinity College Dublin. After her master’s, she moved to Toronto, Canada, where she worked at a medical device and started designing a point of care diagnostic device. SheI started as a production technician and moved on to leading a team as an engineer. She then moved back to Calgary to start her Ph.D. in biomedical engineering at the University of Calgary. The focus of her PhD was on the protein Lubricin (a protein that provides lubrication and other biological functions in our joints, on the surface of the eye and in other locations in the body). During her Ph.D., I had two international secondments, one to the University of Connecticut and another to the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, where she was hired as a postdoc in January 2021. She will continue working on Lubricin as she was awarded a Marie Curie Sklowdoska award (a co-fund called ADMIRE) that will begin in 2022.
Outside of work, Dr. Matheson is an avid runner who also loves yoga. Instagram science communication is one of her newfound interests, and she is excited to learn about technology and apps to share her research online and connect with other researchers.
You can connect to Dr. Matheson through IG: @austynxreid and LinkedIn.
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