Through his office window, Shams looked out at a mountain where people often went paragliding, so he decided to take a lesson — and after that, never stopped paragliding. “It took me a few months to keep going and manage to find time with the Ph.D., but I kept going on the lessons and started to fly more and more,” Shams says. “It’s a very time-consuming activity, so you need to dedicate a lot to it, and with the Ph.D., it was complicated to fly during the first years.”
