Alyssa Frederick wrote, “In November 2019, I conducted my PhD defence using the videoconferencing software Zoom. I had to do this remotely, because after handing in my thesis on digestive physiology at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), I moved to the other end of California. There, I started a new job as a postdoctoral researcher at the Bodega Marine Laboratory (BML), part of the University of California, Davis. … I wrote this article to help graduate students and their principal investigators navigate remote defences, something that might become more common as we all adjust to the current coronavirus outbreak.
How to defend a PhD remotely
Nature, March 30, 2020
March 30, 2020