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Dr. Ryan Hernandez ( Dry Lab Researcher )

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Week in the Life: Dr. Ryan Hernandez (Dry Lab Researcher)

Some outside of academia think professors or researchers do not do very much work, and instead are paid to sit around and think. While this belief is often directed at those in the humanities fields, the Academic Senate followed around UCSF Associate Professor Ryan Hernandez, PhD, to see what he actually addresses in a week.
The population geneticist is a professor in the UC San Francisco School of Pharmacy, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences and serves as a core member in the Quantitative Biosciences Institute and the Institute for Human Genetics.
While his daily duties differ, his weekly duties follow a similar schedule. From professor and researcher to family …show more content…

Daily Schedule
While Hernandez’s daily schedule varies, it does follow a similar time pattern. Hernandez’s day begins much earlier with him waking up around 5 a.m.-7 a.m. Then, he responds to work emails or plays with his two young daughters and completes other morning duties.
Next, at 8:30 a.m., he drops off his eldest daughter at school and heads to work. Due to a long commute from the East Bay, Hernandez tailors his day to fit around a time that avoids heavy traffic and allows him to spend time with family.
“I leave work around 2-4 p.m. and use the next hours to spend time with my family and after my daughters go to sleep, I start working again from home,” Hernandez said. “I don’t get a lot sleep, but that is because I value family time, and so I sacrifice sleep in order to spend time with my family.”
At home, he works until 11 a.m. or midnight. Hernandez’s research is computational, which allows flexibility for him to work from home, whereas a

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