{"id":13435,"date":"2020-08-20T13:56:26","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T11:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.univie.ac.at\/?p=13435"},"modified":"2026-07-14T15:51:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T13:51:05","slug":"my-magic-word-is-interdisciplinarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.univie.ac.at\/en\/humans-of-university-of-vienna-en\/my-magic-word-is-interdisciplinarity\/","title":{"rendered":"Human of #univie Ludmila: My magic word is interdisciplinarity"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIndecisiveness has always been my greatest enemy. At the University of Vienna, I could convert my weaknesses into strengths. My name is Ludmila Peterkov\u00e1. I come from Slovakia, but I am of Russian origin, which is why I grew up bilingually. I was not only exposed to languages at home, but I also found them fascinating as a school subject. Indeed, I found nearly all of my subjects fascinating, especially biology and physics.<\/span><\/p>\n

Having obtained my secondary-school leaving certificate, I decided to study Transcultural Communication at the University of Vienna. It was a big, exhausting but also interesting challenge for me to study two additional languages in a foreign language. After a year, I even got a merit scholarship for which I am incredibly grateful. At this moment, everything seemed to be all right. It was the perfect time for my indecisive soul to catch my attention.<\/span><\/p>\n

It reminded me that, after all, not everything was all right: I missed the natural science subjects. I solved my problem by consulting the long list of interesting degree programmes<\/a> that the University of Vienna offers. I settled for the bachelor’s programme in Biology. The combination of transcultural communication and biology seems incompatible, but for me it became an everyday reality. Again, I had this freshman feeling, including the stressful phase before the STEOP exams, the flood of definitions and the innumerable pages of notes. Since then, a year has passed, and I am now doing the bachelor\u2019s programmes both in Transcultural Communication and in Biology.<\/span><\/p>\n

Too much text analysis? No problem, exercises in genetics provide variety. Whether I will be interpreting at a conference on molecular biology or researching this topic in a multicultural team, competences that I have acquired once will not get lost and will certainly serve me well in my future career. My magic word is interdisciplinarity.\u201d \u2013 Ludmila Peterkov\u00e1<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Ludmila is studying Transcultural Communication<\/a> and Biology<\/a> at the University of Vienna.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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