From my little town, I moved to Barcelona to study biotechnology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. I also spent time in Italy as part of the Erasmus program, which was a very enriching experience. I then moved to Mainz in Germany to pursue a PhD under the mentorship of Dr. Ernesto Bockamp, where I studied the onset of acute myeloid leukemia, specifically the role of the translocation AML1-ETO, and developed a mouse model that recapitulated the disease observed in patients. During my PhD studies I also spent some time at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute in Boston under the mentorship of Prof. David Scadden. That was an awesome experience where I could meet and talk with so many talented people—I felt like a kid in a candy shop! For my postdoc, I went to the German Cancer Research Center where I worked under the mentorship of Prof. Andreas Trumpp. There I got interested in understanding how hematopoietic stem cells are regulated, and I established new low-input omics methods and analyses in close collaboration with a fantastic team of scientists from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, and many other institutions. When I was finishing my postdoc (or, perhaps more accurately, when I was starting to feel like, “OK, now I am ready to be independent.”), I decided to apply for group leader positions. I secured a position as a group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg, where I am to this day. The Max Planck Institute is a great place, with awesome science, fantastic researchers, and outstanding facilities.