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Business Owner Call You to Prioritize Your Needs
Name: Luna Munoz (she/her) PhD: Applied Developmental Psychology, University of New Orleans, 2005 What was your main area of research? I...
19 hours ago3 min read
Data Science Manager Leads Machine Learning Solutions
Name: Ginny Zhu (she/her) PhD: Biostatistics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 2022 What was your main area of...
5 days ago2 min read
Business Development Manager Learned to Be Uncomfortable
Name: Adam Pirie (he/him) PhD: Pharmaceutical Science, University of Tasmania, 2014 What was your main area of research? My PhD was a...
6 days ago2 min read
Founder & CEO Has a Recipe for a Meaningful Career
Name: Kyle Todd (he/him) PhD: Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, 2020 What was your main area of research? I worked to discover...
Apr 202 min read
Research Associate Values Her Intellectual Curiosity
Name: Tara Riggs (she/her) PhD: Political Science, Binghamton University, 2023 What was your main area of research? I studied sexism and...
Apr 203 min read
From Historical Musicology PhD to Business Analyst
Name: Alison DeSimone (she/her) PhD: Historical Musicology, University of Michigan, 2013 What was your main area of research? My research...
Apr 183 min read
Science Business Analyst Tackles Cross-Functional Projects
Name: Hannah Dear (she/her) PhD: Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, 2024 What was your main area of research? I...
Apr 154 min read
CEO Says to Be a Decent Human + Take Risks
Name: Daria Chrobok PhD: Plant Physiology, Umeå University, 2018 What was your main area of research? I worked on the physiology of...
Apr 143 min read
Business Intelligence Developer Builds Data Models
Name: Eric James Stephens (he/him) PhD: Rhetoric, Communication, and Information Design, Clemson University, 2018 What was your main area...
Apr 141 min read
Environmental Biologist + Founder Helps the Natural World
Name: Silvia Pineda-Munoz (she/her) PhD: Ecology and Paleontology, Macquarie University, 2016 What was your main area of research? My PhD...
Apr 123 min read
Science Communication Consultant Gets to Be Her Own Boss
Name: Sarah Ellinwood (she/her) PhD: Molecular & Cellular Biology, University of Maryland, 2017 What was your main area of research? My...
Apr 124 min read
Biomedical PhD Turned Solopreneur
Name: Alda Sabalic (she/her) PhD: Biomedicine, Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, 2024 What was your main area of research? In my...
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
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
CEO Helps PhDs Navigate Career Transitions
Name: Ashley Ruba (she/they) PhD: Developmental Psychology, University of Washington, 2019 What was your main area of research? I studied...
Apr 92 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
CEO & Co-Founder Builds Meaningful Relationships
Name: Elena Hoffer (she/her) PhD: Medical Sciences - Immunology, Karolinska Institutet, 2023 What was your main area of research? I...
Feb 172 min read
Founder Has Achieved Intellectual and Time Freedom
Name: Â Kaidi Wu (she/her) PhD: Â Social Psychology, University of Michigan, 2020 What was your main area of research? My main area of...
Nov 23, 20243 min read
Science Communication Consultant Also Founded a Company
Name: Â Stella Belonwu (she/her) PhD: Â Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics, University of California - San Francisco, 2021 What...
Oct 15, 20242 min read
Tenured Associate Professor Becomes a Founder
Name: Â Aditi Paul (she/her) PhD: Â Communication Studies, Michigan State University, 2015 What was your main area of research? I studied...
Oct 13, 20242 min read
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