In building a successful academic career, it is a common belief you need to work and conduct research internationally – not doing so can have you labelled a risk-avoider and not fully committed. But this is a path not all can, or indeed, want to, take. My guest today is Dr Shyuan Ngo. Shyuan has certainly challenged this assumption as the gold standard of attainment in academia.Completing a PhD in neuroscience, Shyuan received the Bill Gole Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Motor Neurone Disease Research Institute of Australia, was awarded a Queensland Tall Poppy Award, and received the Scott Sullivan MND Research Fellowship in 2015. She is now a Senior Research Fellow and Group Leader at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, and works on understand and developing life-changing therapies for Motor Neuron Disease.Learn more about Dr Ngo's research here: https://aibn.uq.edu.au/profile/3690/shyuan-ngo