"Who wants to work with a monastic workaholic?"

What expectations do professors have to live up to and how do they balance research, teaching, other academic activities and their private lives?. The mentoring programmes Mentoring Deutschschweiz and Réseau romand de mentoring pour femmes celebrated their 15th anniversary with a panel discussion and a networking event. About 90 current and former mentors, mentees and programme partners got together on 22 January 2016 at the SNSF in Bern (photos and other documents: see link below). In a friendly, inspiring and open discussion, Marilyne Andersen, Annuska Derks, Juliet Fall and Norbert Thom talked about how they deal with the expectations and demands placed in them as professors. They encouraged the audience to make the most of any new tasks and roles that present themselves, even if they consider the timing premature. "You learn by doing and become better," Marilyne Andersen noted. But Norbert Thom also recommended taking into account one's own well-being and personal energisers when making decisions.