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Senior Principal Data Scientist Advises You to Work in Public
Name: Eric Ma PhD: Biological Engineering, MIT, 2017 What was your main area of research? I studied influenza evolution and ecology....
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Global Lead Emphasizes That There Are No Rules
Name: Patricia Valerio (she/her) PhD: Neurosciences, University of Basel, 2022 What was your main area of research? My PhD focused on...
Apr 227 min read
Lead Data Scientist Says Her Job Is Never Boring!
Name: Maia Frieser (she/her) PhD: Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado - Boulder, 2020 What was your main area of research? I...
Apr 223 min read
Linguist Works on Ray-Ban Meta AI Glasses
Name: Alice Shen (she/her) PhD: Linguistics, University of California Berkeley, 2020 What was your main area of research? I studied how...
Apr 162 min read
Scientist Loves Real World Impact and Good Work Hours
Name: Jerry Chien (he/him) PhD: Neuroscience, University of Southern California, 2024 What was your main area of research? I studied how...
Apr 142 min read
Unsupportive Advisor + Layoff Didn't Stop this Manager
Name: Stephanie Silva-Del Toro (she/her) PhD: Immunology, University of Iowa, 2021 What was your main area of research? Neutrophils are...
Apr 144 min read
Director of Research Worked at the Company in Grad School
Name: Tricia Thrasher (she/her) PhD: Second Language Acquisition / French, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2022 What was...
Apr 142 min read
Director of Community Wanted Something Different
Name: Susanna Harris (she/her) PhD: Microbiology and Immunology, UNC at Chapel Hill, 2020 What was your main area of research? Just like...
Apr 143 min read
Meta Research Scientist Faced Challenges in Grad School
Name: Ronshee Chawla (he/him) PhD: Statistics and Machine Learning, University of Texas at Austin, 2024 What was your main area of...
Apr 145 min read
From PhD to Domain Expert Engineer in a Tech Company
Name: Marcial Otero (he/him) PhD: Electrical Engineering, National University of Rio Cuarto, 2022 What was your main area of research? I...
Apr 133 min read
Biotech Scientist Advocates for Authenticity
Name: Jesse Weber (he/him) PhD: Cell & Molecular Biology, University of Pennsylvania, 2024 What was your main area of research? My major...
Apr 122 min read
Director of R&D Gives Tips for Career Prep You Should Do Now
Name: John Watkins (he/him) PhD: Chemistry, University of Bath, 2012 What was your main area of research? I studied electrochemical...
Apr 113 min read
Founding General Partner Helps Scientists Build Companies
Name: Elena Itskovich (she/her) PhD: Stem Cell Biology, University of Cambridge, 2017 What was your main area of research? During my PhD,...
Apr 112 min read
Chief Scientist Sees the Direct Impact of His Work
Name: Leo Pekelis (he/him) PhD: Statistics, Stanford University, 2016 What was your main area of research? I studied topics in robust...
Apr 112 min read
Entrepreneurial Fellow Is Building a Biotech Company
Name: Lucas Shores (he/him) PhD: Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, 2021 What was your main area of research? I studied how a...
Apr 112 min read
Laser Scientist to Startup CEO
Name: Celia Millon (she/her) PhD: Laser Science, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM), 2018 What was your main area of...
Apr 92 min read
Program Manager Loves Her Work's Real-World Impact
Name: Â Kendra Lechtenberg (she/her) PhD: Â Neuroscience, Stanford University School of Medicine, 2019 What was your main area of research?...
Feb 94 min read
Immunologist to Clinical Project Manager + Consultant
Name: Â Anthony Franchini (he/him) PhD: Â Immunology, Albany Medical College, 2014 What was your main area of research? I studied how...
Feb 92 min read
How a PhD in Bioinformatics Led to an Industry Career
Name: Â Bhavika Mam (she/her) PhD: Â Bioinformatics, TDU, 2022 What was your main area of research? During my PhD years, the subject of my...
Jan 112 min read
Lead Data Scientist Helps Develop Exoskeleton Technology
Name:  Simon Bastide (he/him) PhD:  Kinesiology / Neuroscience / Biomechanics, Université Paris Saclay, 2021 What was your main area of...
Jan 113 min read
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