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Leslie Cruz describes how she landed her first permanent position, and why it makes her happier than work at the bench. Image credit: Sarah Goertzen After completing a PhD at the University of...
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How Elizabeth Waters took a love of mentoring and training into Rockefeller University’s teaching labs. Elizabeth Walters After completing her PhD at Oregon Health Science University and doing...
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Multiple informational interviews can bring great insights into possible careers, says Arie Meir. After earning his degree in biophysics at Berkeley, Arie Meir took an engineering internship at Google....
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Fund management and financial services give physicist Ben Peters an insight into a highly uncertain world. After completing a PhD at the University of Oxford, exploring single molecule transistors, Ben...
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David Crosby urges young scientists to take real advantage of the mentorship opportunities that abound everywhere. After completing a PhD at the University of California, Irvine and a postdoc at the...
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Working in science policy is all about taking complex science from experts and translating it into something accessible, to be used in key decision making. Image credit: Catherine Ball After completing...
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After a brief stint as a general surgeon, and a PhD in translational cancer research from the MRC Cancer Cell Unit, University of Cambridge, UK, Bali Muralidhar changed career direction to venture...
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After advanced training in psychology, neuroscience, and endocrinology, Lana Gent found job satisfaction as a director of science at the American Heart Association in Dallas. Here she describes what...
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After completing a PhD and postdoc studying disease mechanisms behind epilepsy and autism, Dorothy Jones-Davis found job satisfaction as a scientific project manager working at the Foundation for the...
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After finishing a PhD and postdoc in cardiovascular biology, Christina Papke found job satisfaction as a research development officer. Now, she works at Texas A&M University in College Station,...
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Cristiano Malossi first came to IBM Laboratory in Zurich, Switzerland as a postdoc and was then promoted to researcher. He has applied his mathematical simulation skills to a variety of projects,...
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As a business development officer at STEMCELL Technologies in Vancouver, Canada, Ben Thiede evaluates new technologies and negotiates deals that bring scientific advances to market. He describes his...
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After completing his PhD and postdoc at The University of California, Berkeley in the biophysics of cancer cell growth, Gautham Venugopalan completed a science policy fellowship sponsored by the...
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Being upfront about goals and creative about gaining experience can launch a career. Elise Covic, now Deputy Dean of the College at the University of Chicago, entered academic administration even...
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How Sabine Blankenship went from neuroscience researcher to professional networker After completing a PhD and postdoc in experimental neuroscience labs, Sabine Blankenship had no desire to run her own...
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Following your interests and making connections can launch a career. Unlike most US students, Nathan Sanders declared his specialty as soon as he started undergraduate studies. He’d known for years...
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Perseverance can help land a position, but relevant experience is a big help. As she was finishing a postdoc at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Stefanie Marquez-Vilendrer found herself in the...
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After finishing a PhD and postdoc studying the cellular mechanisms behind cardiovascular disease, Shikha Mishra decided not to continue in academia. She found she could still do the work she loved at...
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Steffen Schulz was completing his PhD in medical neuroscience when he realised he needed more job security than academia could offer. Now, he works as a drug safety manager in his native Berlin. How...
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Yuko Ueno planned to work in science communication… …But a supervisor suggested that gaining first-hand research experience might make her a better communicator. Today, she sells workshops to...
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