The Postdoc's Guide to Not Falling in Love with Your Principal Investigator

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For the past 20+ years, rumoured genius and workaholic Professor Julian Parr has had one single mission in life: to find a more effective treatment or cure for ovarian cancer. Each day is designed with this one goal in mind. Nothing else matters, and there is certainly no time for socializing, friendships, or other distractions. That is, until his newest postdoc enters his life with the drop of an F-bomb. Suddenly, even the most basic task seems impossible, and his ability to focus has vanished into thin air.

Dr. Erin Howard has no idea what she wants to do in life, so she does what most recent PhD graduates do—she applies for a postdoctoral position. However, what’s meant to be the professional opportunity of a lifetime soon turns into a nightmare when she realizes her new boss is the same man she met three nights earlier—the man she almost kissed and hasn’t been able to stop thinking about since.

As the realization dawns, both agree that nothing can or will ever happen again—he’s her boss, she’s too young, it would go against every university rule and HR policy, and he certainly can’t afford any distractions. Still, as days turn to weeks, they spend more time together, and Julian’s ability to focus remains nowhere to be found, he starts to realize that something must be done to overcome the affliction that has been plaguing him since she first joined his lab.

His hypothesis is simple: If they give in to temptation, just once, she’ll be out of his system, and his focus will return for good.

Here’s the thing about science, though: most of the time, experiments fail.