Hi, I’m Dr. Schumm, but you can call me Samantha. I am a bioengineer by training. 

While earning my PhD at the University of Pennsylvania, I often wished there were some manual I could turn to for help. When I realized no such book existed, I knew I needed to write my own. That work has become The Modern PhD Handbook. I hope it provides help and motivation to others. Getting a PhD is hard, but you’ve got this!

I currently work at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and live in Washington, DC with my husband George and my pup Cleo.