Category: PhDs With a Business
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Career Development Strategies E075 Dr. Chris Golde On How To Write Your Career Chapter by Chapter
Dr. Chris Golde is a career coach working with PhD students and postdoctoral scholars at Stanford Career Education, the career center at Stanford University. She is on a team of coaches working with PhD students and postdoctoral scholars, from all departments of the University. For over 25 years she has worked in a variety of…
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Career Development Strategies E074 Dr. Chris Hartgerink On How To Build an Organization as a Researcher and Make Science Truly Open
Dr. Chris Hartgerink is a meta-researcher with a broad interest in how the systems we operate in affect the decisions we are able to make, shifting the balance of responsibility from the individual to the system they’re in. In 2020, he defended his PhD thesis entitled “Contributions towards understanding and building sustainable science” from Tilburg University. Integrating meta-research, sociology,…
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Career Development Strategies E062 From Neuroscience To Medical Writing
Ayaka Ando completed her PhD in the field of neuroscience and neuroimaging at The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, and University of Queensland, Australia. She then moved to Germany to pursue her career in academia, where she was appointed as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Child and Adolescent…
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Career Development Strategies E061 How To Learn Business Project Management as a PhD?
Hellen Parra-Flórez is Code-Switch’s Founder and Managing Director. She has experience in knowledge exchange activities and has managed the successful delivery of more than 20 consultancy projects. Hellen is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner. She is also the University of Manchester Research Staff Developer for the Prosper…
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Career Development Strategies E058 How PhD Helps in Business Development and How It Makes It Harder
In this special episode for the second-anniversary of the company, Natalia reviews five ways in which her PhD helps her in doing business – and five ways in which it makes it harder.
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Career Development Strategies E047 How To Develop an AI Company In Visual Recognition as a PhD
Justin is the CTO and Co-Founder of VisioLab, an AI software company. He is completing an external PhD with Radboud University. His background includes neuroscience research and building deep learning applications for Intel and Peltarion as a Data Scientist. He is based in Berlin, Germany.
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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 E033 The Blockchain World Needs Phds! From Biotechnology to Bitcoin Wallet Recovery
Niels Zondervan left a PhD in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics at Wageningen University to found Wallet Recovery NL, a company that recovers lost cryptocurrency wallets. He discusses why so few PhDs work in blockchain and how his research skills transferred to entrepreneurship.
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Career Development Strategies E029 PhDs in Photography – How to Start? Business Development for Dads
Matthias Hombauer left a Molecular Biology PhD to become a self-taught concert photographer and, after becoming a stay-at-home dad, built Dadpreneur to help other parents turn passions into profitable businesses.
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Career Development Strategies E025 How to Start a Career in Neuromarketing As a PhD? Building a Consultancy Company As a PhD
Dr. Davide Rigoni teaches neuromarketing and management psychology at Hult International Business School and founded ICENSE, a consultancy in neuromarketing and economic decision-making. In this episode he explains how a PhD can start a career in neuromarketing, and what the first months of running your own company really cost.
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Career Development Strategies E021 Academic Writing for Graduate Students: Lindy Ledohowski on the Origins of EssayJack
Lindy Ledohowski on academic writing for graduate students and the origins of EssayJack: how a professor became an EdTech CEO and why structured templates make essays less scary.
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Career Development Strategies E019 Alican Noyan on Launching a Machine Learning Startup Developing Diagnostic Tools in Healthcare
Alican Noyan on launching a machine learning startup in healthcare: from a materials science PhD to Ipsumio, finding first diagnostic projects with hospitals, and generating real value with scientific software.