A personal story about moving to the northernmost settlement on Earth. How does one decide to move to Svalbard? While I had known for a while that polar research was my passion, I had never really thought about living  in Svalbard. Honestly, I didn’t even know one could! So how did I end up there? Passion . One day, my master’s supervisor sent me an email with a new PhD position: “Have you seen this?” I started reading, and my eyes grew wider with every line. It was the perfe