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Senior Specialty Agronomist Advises to Start Interning Now!
Name: Shandrea Stallworth (she/her) PhD: Plant and Soil Sciences, Mississippi State University, 2021 What was your main area of research?...
Apr 293 min read
Product Analyst Values Being Recognized
Name: Jordana Andrade (she/her) PhD: Pharmaceutical Sciences, Federal University of Goias, 2024 What was your main area of research?...
Apr 285 min read
Training and Support Officer Followed Her Heart
Name: Rita-Noelle Moussa (she/her) PhD: Chemical/Bioprocess Engineering, University of Aberdeen, 2024 What was your main area of...
Apr 282 min read
Field Application Scientist Loves the Interaction with Customers
Name: Yasenya Kasikci (she/her) PhD: Functional Genomics and Cancer, University of Strasbourg, 2023 What was your main area of research?...
Apr 272 min read
Process Development Engineer Shares the Value of Mindset
Name: Sanaz Zarabi (she/her) PhD: Engineering Physics/Applied Physics, Aalto University, 2024 What was your main area of research? I...
Apr 272 min read
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....
Apr 262 min read
Process Engineer Emphasizes Research Productivity
Name: Supun Attanayake (he/him) PhD: Applied Physics, University of South Florida, 2024 What was your main area of research? I studied...
Apr 261 min read
Specialist Makes Science Accessible at a Global Level
Name: Adolfo Lara (he/him) PhD: Comparative Biology, Richard Gilder Graduate School, 2018 What was your main area of research? I studied...
Apr 263 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...
Apr 252 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 241 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...
Apr 242 min read
Partnership Manager Helps Advance Drug Discovery
Name: Helene Fachim (she/her) PhD: Psychobiology/Neuroscience, University of São Paulo, 2013 What was your main area of research? I...
Apr 232 min read
Technology Transfer Specialist Gets to Evaluate Inventions
Name: Faheem Ullah (he/him) PhD: Neuroscience/Neuropharmacology, University of Western Sydney, 2020 What was your main area of research?...
Apr 232 min read
Professor of 10 Years, Now Director of Learning Sciences
Name: Shiv Smith Karunakaran (he/him) PhD: Curriculum & Instruction (Mathematics Education), Pennsylvania State University, 2014 What was...
Apr 232 min read
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
Reddit UX Researcher Highly Recommends an Internship
Name: Carl Pearson (he/him) PhD: Human Factors Psychology, North Carolina State University, 2019 What was your main area of research? My...
Apr 222 min read
VP of Medical Affairs Helps Cure the Incurable
Name: Nick Sanford (he/him) PhD: Biology, Texas Tech University, 2015 What was your main area of research? I studied the molecular...
Apr 212 min read
Program Coordinator Chose a Career That Supports Her Life
Name: Imon Candelaria (she/her) PhD: Cancer Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2021 What was your main area of research?...
Apr 213 min read
Policy Analyst Works to Make People Healthier
Name: Krystin Carlson (she/they) PhD: Toxicology, University of Michigan, 2019 What was your main area of research? I studied the...
Apr 203 min read
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