From PhD to Career Success

Explore how PhDs from a variety of different
fields navigated the decision to leave academia.

Name: Albee Ling (she/her) PhD: Biomedical Informatics, Stanford University, 2020 What was your main area of research? I studied...

Aug 29, 20242 min read

Name: Jordan Sorokin (he/him) PhD: Neuroscience, Stanford, 2019 What was your main area of research? I studied the neural dynamics...

Aug 27, 20242 min read

Name: Erin Sanders (she/her) PhD: Stanford University, Developmental Biology, 2021 What was your main area of research? I studied how...

Aug 26, 20242 min read

Name: Sally Demirdjian (she/her) PhD: Microbiology and Immunology, Dartmouth, 2020 What was your main area of research? During my PhD, I...

Aug 25, 20243 min read

Name: Forrest Collman (he/him) PhD: Neuroscience and Molecular Biology, Princeton, 2010 What was your main area of research? In my PhD,...

Aug 25, 20242 min read

Name: Aimee Iberg (she/her) PhD: Molecular Biology, The University of Texas Health Science Center and MD Anderson Cancer Center, 2009...

Aug 25, 20241 min read

Name: Egle Cekanaviciute (she/her) PhD: Neurosciences, Stanford University, 2014 What was/is your main area of research? I currently...

Aug 23, 20243 min read

Name: Jon Bradshaw (he/him) PhD: Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, 2020 What was your main area of research? My...

Aug 22, 20242 min read

Name: Eshed Margalit (he/him) PhD: Neurosciences, Stanford University, 2022 What is your current job? I am a Machine Learning Scientist...

Aug 21, 20242 min read