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Behavioral Scientist Urges You to Stay True to Who You Are
Name: Nikkita Sarna PhD: Business (Marketing), University of Texas at Austin, 2023 What is your current job? I am a Senior Behavioral...
Oct 7, 20253 min read
Product Designer on a Progress Over Perfection Mentality
Name: Pekka Murto PhD: Design, Aalto University, 2017 What is your current job? I am a Product Designer for Vend in Helsinki, Finland. I...
Sep 10, 20252 min read
Systems Engineer Is Encouraged to Always Keep Learning
Name: Luiza Fabreti (she/her) PhD: Computational Biology/Evolutionary Biology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), 2022 What is...
Jul 21, 20252 min read
Science Writer Says Being Scared Could Be a Good Sign
Name: Jerald Pinson (he/him) PhD: Biology, University of Florida, 2020 What is your current job? I am a Science Writer for the Florida...
Jul 21, 20252 min read
Director of Communication Meets Olympic Athletes & Coaches
Name: Ariel Hodges (she/her) PhD: Higher Education, Ohio University, 2024 What is your current job? I am the Director of Communication &...
Jul 21, 20252 min read
PR Representative Learns About Exciting Research Every Day
Name: Ananya Sen (she/her) PhD: Microbiology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2021 What is your current job? I am a Public...
Jul 20, 20252 min read
Medical Strategist Goes from Ideas to Impact
Name: Christella Gordon-Kim (she/her) PhD: Biomolecular Chemistry, Emory University, 2023 What is your current job? I am a Medical...
Jul 19, 20253 min read
Nonprofit Manager Highly Recommends Volunteering
Name: Clare Gordon Bettencourt (she/her) PhD: History, University of California - Irvine, 2022 What was your main area of research? I...
May 4, 20253 min read
Amplified Scientific Curiosity + More Comfortable Life
Name: Kelsey Moore (she/her) PhD: Biomedical Science, Medical University of South Carolina, 2021 What was your main area of research? The...
May 3, 20253 min read
Content Manager Loves the Novelty & Challenge of the Job
Name: Deep Sarkar (he/him) PhD: Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, 2018 What was your main area of research? My PhD thesis...
May 2, 20252 min read
VP of Scientific Storytelling with Surprising Skill Advice
Name: Kisha Greer (she/her) PhD: Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health; Virginia Tech, 2019 What was your main area of research? In...
May 1, 20254 min read
Product Marketing Manager Itches the Engineering Scratch
Name: Tyler Myers (he/him) PhD: Materials & Nanoscience, University of Colorado - Boulder, 2021 What was your main area of research? I...
Apr 28, 20255 min read
Product Insights Manager Says to Get Corporate Experience
Name: Marina Chernikova (she/her) PhD: Social Psychology, University of Maryland, 2018 What was your main area of research? My research...
Apr 24, 20251 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 14, 20253 min read
Communications Project Manager Still Feels Close to Science
Name: Amalia Verzola (she/her) PhD: Philosophy, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 2009 What was your main area of research? I studied the...
Apr 14, 20252 min read
Content Acquisition Specialist Makes Science More Impactful
Name: Chandrika Konwar (she/her) PhD: Biomedical Science, University of Delhi, 2024 What was your main area of research? In my PhD...
Apr 11, 20254 min read
Cardiovascular Biologist to Scientific Marketing Manager
Name: Ben Thomas (he/him) PhD: Cardiovascular Biology, University of Edinburgh, 2022 What was your main area of research? I looked at...
Nov 23, 20243 min read
Science Communication Consultant Also Founded a Company
Name: Stella Belonwu (she/her) PhD: Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics, University of California - San Francisco, 2021 What...
Oct 15, 20242 min read
Cell Biologist Turned Product Marketing Manager
Name: Ana Jiménez Orgaz (she/her) PhD: Cell Biology, University of Freiburg, 2019 What was your main area of research? I studied the...
Oct 13, 20242 min read
From Sociology & Criminology PhD to Senior Data Analyst
Name: Story Edison (she/her) PhD: Sociology & Criminology, The Ohio State University, 2023 What was your main area of research? I...
Sep 27, 20242 min read
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