What are your strengths?
Constancy, illusion, to improve oneself.
May I know your weaknesses?
I do not know “how to say no”.
What are your goals?
Continue with my teaching, research and management tasks.
Where do you want to be in next 5 years time?
Probably in the same place I am now.
What 3 positive words would your colleagues/friends say about you?
Worker, Loyal, Friendly.
Tell me about a time when something went well?
Fortunately, almost always everything goes well.
Tell me about a time when something went wrong and you dealt with it?
Loss of an intercontinental flight and stay alone another 24 hours in a foreign country.
What is your greatest achievement?
To have been the Dean of my Faculty.
What & who motivates you?
My work as a professor motivates me. My students are my greatest motivation.
What do you want to develop about yourself?
To learn new things.
How do you handle pressure/stress?
Fairly good. I have no anxiety or sleep problems.
What do you like to do outside of work?
Being with my family, playing sports and traveling.
What’s unique about you?
I do not know, I do not think there is something unique about me that another person may not have too.
Tell me about how a professional qualification you have obtained has helped you personally?
Professional progress.
Tell me about a significant crisis you have faced?
Some serious health problem of my mother.
How do you resolve conflict in the groups or teams that you are a part of?
Mediation work, Listen and conciliate.
Tell me about a time when you changed your priorities to meet others’ expectations?
Let other colleague to teach my lessons in a subject.
Tell me about a difficult decision that you have made?
Expedite a professor for inappropriate teacher behavior.
What significant problems have you faced in the last year?
Conflict with university authorities.
Tell me how you organize your work and schedule your time?
Quite well. I perfectly separate my professional life from the personal one.
Describe a situation you were involved in that required a multi-dimensional communication strategy?
Negotiating the granting of new teaching positions.
Give an example of a difficult or sensitive situation that required extensive communication?
Preparation of the scale for the evaluation of a teaching position.
What two or three accomplishments have given you the most satisfaction? Why?
In general my entire academic life. I enjoy my work and I feel recognized.
Describe a time when you led or motivated others?
Students completing their final degree projects.
Describe a situation where you were successful in getting people to work together effectively?
Realization of a research project.
Describe a situation in which you were a member (not a leader) of a team and a conflict arose within the team. What did you do?
Mediation work. Listen to the different parties in conflict and attempting to encourage a consensus.
Tell me about a time when you were able to change someone’s view point significantly?
I have not needed to change anyone’s point of view.
Tell me about a time when you were asked to do something that you disagreed with?
When that happened, I tried not to do what they asked me to do.
What your researchers should develop in research?
Scientific curiosity applied to clinical-assistance activity.
May I know about your research students? How many members awarded with the degree PhD/M.Phil?
About 90%.
By considering all of your research students, who is the best researcher you would like us to know?
It is not a single researcher, it is the whole team.
What is the greatest work done by your research students which have shown greatest impact in that field?
Risk factors of an oral disease with prognostic implications.
What type of research is going on in your laboratory?
Diagnostic techniques in oral cancer and oral immunology of oral diseases.
Describe a specific problem solved by you?
Optimization of schedules, contents and competences of different Degree’s subjects.
What is an approach for a problem?
Look for possible solutions.
Give some commonly faced repercussions in your life with which you failed to meet your deadline?
So far, I have never exceeded the deadline.
In such situations what are the measures you have taken to avoid such repercussions when the same deadline is set in course of time?
Really, it has not happened.
What are the qualities of an ideal student/ learner?
Interest, work and commitment.
What are the qualities of an ideal teacher?
Believe in what you do. Illusion to learn and help to learn.
Which stage of education for a child is important?
All, especially, the first years at home and at school.
Does nationalism has any impact in learning process?
Yes, it limits and isolates the knowledge.
Does one education system suit for all set of students across the world?
I think there is no single educational model, it depends on the particular features of each population or country.
What is the goal of education?
Learn to learn. The student must be able to learn autonomously to properly manage the information.
What is the root cause of existing scenario of choosing education as an earning source than learning source?
Education is an opportunity to compete in better circumstances in the global professional world.
Role of emotional intelligence of a person?
Fundamental in your personal development. For example, women have a clear advantage in this matter.
How to define a success?
Satisfaction for having done what you thought you had to do.
How to handle failure?
The failure is an opportunity to correct your mistakes. You learn a lot from failures and they allow you to improve yourself.
Does a person daily routine has an impact in learning?
Yes. The routine limits and hinders the personal development and the learning process.
Finally, what do you suggest the young/upcoming researchers?
To have hope and confidence in what they do.
