Category: PhDs in Startups & Small Companies
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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 E055 How Do Brain-Computer Interfaces Work And What Can They Achieve? Career In BCIs As a PhD
Dr. Davide Valeriani of Neurable explains how brain-computer interfaces work, how academia and industry approach BCI research differently, and what his path from a neuroscience PhD to a BCI startup career looked like.
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Career Development Strategies E013 Mariam Kostandyan on Human Resources Careers for PhDs. How To Become a Coach?
Mariam Kostandyan on human resources careers for PhDs: how skills from cognitive neuroscience transfer to HR, what the job looks like day to day, and how to become a coach.
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Career Development Strategies E009 From PhD in Mathematics to Freelancing as a Data Scientist. Is It Worth To Do a PhD?
Mattias Hansson talks about freelancing as a data scientist: requalifying from a PhD in mathematics, surviving the corona crisis as a freelancer, and whether doing a PhD was worth it.
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Career Development Strategies E008 How To Start a Career in AI as a PhD? Andre Marques Smith on Working for a BCI Startup
Andre Marques-Smith explains how to start a career in AI as a PhD: from a neuroscience PhD and postdoc at King’s College London to machine learning self-study and a wearable brain-computer interface startup.