Fostering Innovation and Supporting Talents with Dr. Christian Beste

Actions create memories as much as memories shape one's actions. Dr. Christian Beste was born and raised in the "Ruhr area" in the 80s and 90s, a melting pot of ethnicities, cultures, and attitudes. It was also a time of structural industrial changes causing disruptions in the lives of people, teaching the lesson to occasionally reinvent oneself. Striving for opportunities and the necessity to reinvent oneself is particularly pressing for people from lower-income countries, and countries where it is difficult to develop and think independently. Ever since, Dr. Christian Beste has therefore strived to create occasions for talents in neuroscience from low-income countries and/or people with an unconventional personal history. Generally, there are no stupid questions to ask and ways to think; the only stupid thing is not supporting talents striving to develop and to seize their potential for scientific innovations. This also comes with what he calls psychological neuroscience that talents from diverse disciplines providing fresh and undisguised views can make a difference for research on neurodiversity.