Category: PhD Careers In Industry
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Career Development Strategies E063 A Lucky Escape From Academia Towards Movement and Internal Metrics from Humans
James Heathers, PhD is a chief scientific officer at Cipher Skin Inc., a company focused on capturing Movement and Internal Metrics from Humans and Objects to Deliver Meaningful, Visualized Insights for healthcare. He has a long record in academia, where he first completed a PhD in Psychophysiology at the University of Sydney in 2014, and…
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Career Development Strategies E007 How To Get Hired as a Consultant in Pharma as a PhD? How To Side-Hustle? On the Origins of BNFL
Physicist-turned-PhD Natalia Vtyurina shares how she became a pharma consultant, built the CRS BeNeLux France Local Chapter, and started a stretching business on the side.
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Career Development Strategies E054 From PhD in STEM Towards Clinical Practice in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Dr. Ruud Berkers is currently working as an early-career psychologist at HSK, a mental health care institution with locations across the Netherlands. He uses cognitive-behavioral techniques to treat a wide variety of complaints, including depression, anxiety, ptsd, and burnout. In a previous stage of his career, he was a cognitive neuroscientist studying human memory, sleep…
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Career Development Strategies E049 How to Navigate Like a Pro and Establish the World’s First Nanoformulation Consulting Company
Dr. Eniko Manek, founder of Teuton Tech, the world’s first Nanoformulation Consulting company, shares her journey from chemistry PhD to industry executive to entrepreneur. She discusses networking, resilience, and how nanoformulation is transforming pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and agrochemicals.
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Career Development Strategies E048: How To Develop a Startup Educating the Global South in Quantum Computing
Dr. Alessandro Crimi, an Italian-born researcher turned entrepreneur, discusses building Yawlab and QC4All, two startups bringing biotech and quantum computing education to the Global South, with insights on funding strategy and finding co-founders.
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Career Development Strategies E046 The Salmon Leap for PhDs: How To Smoothly Jump From Academia to Industry with Matteo Tardelli
Dr. Matteo Tardelli is a Postdoctoral Scientist at Weill Cornell Medicine in NYC and the author of the book “The Salmon Leap for PhDs: Swimming upstream a career from academia to industry”. To date, apart from doing science, he has assisted many researchers in gaining the confidence to launch new and diverse careers by taking…
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Career Development Strategies E045 How Can the Agile Approach Work in Research? Between Academia and R&D in Agriculture
Dr. Laura Pirro is an Italian chemical engineer, who obtained her PhD at Laboratory for Chemical Technology of Ghent University at the end of 2020. Currently, Laura works as an R&D engineer at Yara Sluiskil, in the Netherlands, in the field of agricultural products. In this episode, she will tell us more about several aspects…
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Career Development Strategies E044 From Medical Studies to Building Censorship-Resistant Computing Ecosystems Towards Immortality
Dr. Olga Ukolova holds the title of Doctor of Medicine obtained from the National Medical University ‘O.O. Bogomolec’, Kyiv. While obtaining the title, she worked as a Research Scientist at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Her research considered autophagy in Alzheimer’s disease, and autophagy perspective of heart attacks and strokes. After that, she…
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Career Development Strategies E043 How to Adapt to the Corporate World As a PhD? How to Play the Game Like a Pro?
Dr. Olga Pougovkina is a scientific leader in the R&D sector of Janssen Biologics where she works within the analytical development for early, late phase and commercial biologics. She obtained her PhD in Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam after which she decided to leave academia. While finishing her PhD she faced the challenges of making…
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Career Development Strategies E010 Building a Startup as a PhD: The Life of a Founder in the Cosmetics Industry
Dr. Maria Otworowska holds a PhD degree in the Computational Cognitive Science awarded by the Radboud University Nijmegen. Before her PhD program, she completed her Master’s degree in Cognitive Science at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. She also spent one year at Università Degli Studi Di Catania as an Erasmus student. During her PhD…
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Career Development Strategies E042 How to Become a Private Recruiter as a PhD?
Dr. Manolo Castellano, a PhD-turned career consultant and talent recruiter, shares how he transitioned from neurobiology research into private recruitment, what it takes to become a recruiter without formal training, and how PhDs can present their skills to employers.
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Career Development Strategies E041 From PhD to the World of Social Media Communications and Digital Marketing
Dr. Elodie Crespel, a digital media expert with a PhD from the University of Montreal, shares how she moved from academic communication research into social media marketing, and what it really takes to build a career in digital marketing today.