Heidelberg in Santiago
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Started as project coordinator at the Heidelberg Center for Latin America, right here in Santiago. The role is about supporting the first Medical Informatics summer school – a collaboration between Chilean and German universities. It’s my first real taste of project coordination and academic administration, and it’s a lot more logistics than I expected. Organizing schedules, managing international participants, making sure the German professors have everything they need. The connection between Chile and Germany in health informatics is surprisingly strong, and being at the center of that exchange is fascinating. I’m learning how academic projects actually run behind the scenes – the emails, the budgets, the last-minute changes. It’s not glamorous work, but it’s the kind of experience that teaches you how things get done in the real world.