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Medical Science Liaison Talked to Several in the Industry
Name: Inès Hugonneau-Beaufet (she/her) PhD: Molecular Biology, Sorbonne Université, 2023 What was your main area of research? I studied...
Apr 27, 20252 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 27, 20252 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 26, 20252 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 26, 20251 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 26, 20253 min read
Assistant Director for the Malaysian Ministry of Education
Name: Jarrod Sio Jyh Lih (he/him) PhD: Educational Management, Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris, 2020 What was your main area of...
Apr 25, 20252 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 25, 20252 min read
Program Manager Impacts the Career Paths of Young Scholars
Name: Ellen Dobson (she/her) PhD: Microbiology & Immunology, University of British Columbia, 2010 What was your main area of research? I...
Apr 25, 20252 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
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 24, 20252 min read
Food Consultant Created His Own Career
Name: Bryan Quoc Le (he/him) PhD: Food Science, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2020 What was your main area of research? I studied if...
Apr 24, 20253 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 23, 20252 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 23, 20252 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 23, 20252 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 22, 20257 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 22, 20253 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 22, 20252 min read
Technical Analyst Says to Learn to Speak Finance
Name: Ariel Hyre (they/them) PhD: Chemistry, Boston University, 2020 What was your main area of research? I studied the way electrons...
Apr 21, 20252 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 21, 20252 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 21, 20253 min read
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