From a PhD in swarm robotics to open science and psychotherapy for researchers' well-being

By the Summer of 2020, right when covid had made almost all parts of the world be in lockdown, I finished my PhD, and I decided to come back home, to Murcia, in the South of Spain. I needed a break after such a massive personal and professional experience that the PhD was, as well as the massive unsettling pandemic that had arrived. So I decided to stop for a while and take a gap year (I had never done this before). Yes, I started working as the Managing Editor of Robohub, but that was only a few hours a week, so still, it could be a gap year. Before, I've told you that half-way through my PhD I felt the call to explore other human aspects and I did that by going outside the lab to engage with other human beings.