Master Your Research - Digital tools for aspiring Researchers

This module is intended to give students tutorials on useful digital tools for Research. As advances in Tech are constantly shaping and changing our world, Academia is evolving at a fast pace as well. Learning specific tools can facilitate one’s academic path in the fascinating world of Research. These are softwares that I personally found very useful in my current early-stage carreerin academic research so far, and that made my thesis more efficient. We will cover Zotero for reference manager, Obsidian for note taking, AI tools for researchers and more.

The lectures will be organized as follows:

• Reference and Paper Manager: Zotero is a fascinating tool used by many PhD students and Academics. We will explore how to use it for rapid bibliography generation, organizing literature, and for highlighting and keeping track of key information. Since I discovered it, It has been a key tool for my thesis and for my personal academic development.We will also delve into tools to master the "research rabbit hole" and discover new literature.
• Note Taking and second brain: Obsidian. Obsidian is a highly customizable note-taking app that uses Markdown. We will discuss its key benefits, its powerful plugin ecosystem, and how to transform raw reading notes into a second brain of interconnected concepts.
• Store and share code: GitHub and VS Code. Even for non-developers, version control is vital for managing research scripts, data analysis, and document history, and GitHub comes in handy for this purpose. We will learn how to create repositories, track changes over time and share code or data with collaborators.