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Project Manager Surprised About Her Favorite Part of the Job
Name: Micaela Machado Querido (she/her) PhD: Biomedical Sciences, University of Porto, 2022 What is your current job? I am a Project...
Jul 19, 20252 min read
Sr. Business Developer Advises on Broadening Your Skillset
Name: Ulrich Ramach PhD: Applied Interface Physics, University of Technology Vienna, 2023 What is your current job? I am a Senior...
Jul 19, 20253 min read
R&D Manager Says to Never Back Down on Your Worth
Name: Jean-Pierre Dib (he/him) PhD: Electrical Engineering, Université Grenoble Alpes, 2023 What is your current job? I am a R&D Project...
Jul 19, 20252 min read
Engineering Team Lead Shares 8 Steps for Securing the Job
Name: Samvit Menon (he/him) PhD: Physics and Materials Science, Manipal University, 2017 What is your current job? I am an Engineering...
Jul 19, 20253 min read
Sr. Licensing Associate Needed to Be a Part of the Big Picture
Name: Catherine Murari-Kanti PhD: Cancer Research, University of Nebraska Medical Center, 2015 What is your current job? I am a Senior...
Jul 19, 20253 min read
Municipal Engineer Connecting Academia & Industry
Name: Joshua Ayomikun Matesun (he/him) PhD: Civil Engineering, University of Cape Town, 2025 What is your current job? I am a Municipal...
Jul 19, 20253 min read
Human Factors Engineer Got the Job Through an Internship
Name: Blake Wagner (he/him) PhD: Human Factors Psychology, North Carolina State University, 2023 What was your main area of research? My...
Jun 12, 20253 min read
Co-Founder Highly Values the Intellectual Rigor from Her PhD
Name: Shreya Jha (she/her) PhD: Sociology of Development (specialism: Women's agency in South Asia), University of Bath, 2018 What was...
Jun 12, 20254 min read
Associate Director of Programs & Training Loves Leading People
Name: Chiara Bertipaglia (she/her) PhD: Biochemistry and Structural Biology, University of Heidelberg (joint with the European Molecular...
Jun 11, 20253 min read
Research Analysts Learns About New Healthcare Developments
Name: Shanna Bowman PhD: Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, 2016 What was your main area of research? I researched the...
May 6, 20252 min read
Computational Linguist at Google Loves the Discovery
Name: Chris Stewart (he/him) PhD: French (Linguistics), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009 What was your main area of...
May 6, 20252 min read
Data Analyst Reflected on Her Values
Name: Pamela Fuhrmeister (she/her) PhD: Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Connecticut, 2020 What was your main area...
May 6, 20253 min read
AI/ML Engineer Involved in the Full Product Life-Cycle
Name: Lambert Leong PhD: Bioengineering, University of Hawaii, 2023 What was your main area of research? During my PhD and Postdoc my...
May 6, 20252 min read
UX Researcher Does Work That Leads to Actual Change!
Name: Courtney Tintzman (she/her) PhD: Psychological Science, Montana State University, 2020 What was your main area of research? My work...
May 6, 20252 min read
Research Scientist Gets to Research New Technologies
Name: Manasi Doshi PhD: Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 2021 What was your main area of research? I was trying to...
May 5, 20252 min read
Doctor of a Pro Soccer Team Created His Own Path
Name: Leijs Maarten PhD: Medicine / Molecular Medicine, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2021 What was your main area of research? I...
May 5, 20252 min read
Analyst & Scientist in Both the Technical + Business Sides
Name: Luke Savory (he/him) PhD: Physical Chemistry, University of Hull, 2015 What was your main area of research? My PhD involved...
May 5, 20253 min read
Discovery Scientist & the Importance of Informational Interviews
Name: Suhasini Murali Iyengar (she/her) PhD: Computational Chemistry, Northeastern University, 2023 What was your main area of research?...
May 5, 20254 min read
Senior Insights Manager for Target Is Curious for a Living
Name: Emma Beyers-Carlson (she/her) PhD: Developmental Psychology, University of Michigan, 2018 What was your main area of research? I...
May 5, 20253 min read
15 Years in Academia - She Left & Never Looked Back
Name: Dena Huisman (she/her) PhD: Communication Studies, University of Iowa, 2008 What was your main area of research? My dissertation...
May 5, 20253 min read
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