A life science careers blog for early career researchers
This blog aims to inspire early career researchers exploring different career options. We provide interview-based profiles of life scientists working in diverse science-related careers and articles on a broad range of career-related topics, with new content added on a regular basis.
The blog was established to support the work of the EIPOD career development service in providing careers information for EMBL Interdisciplinary Postdocs and the broader community of PhD and postdocs at EMBL and beyond. It is run by the EMBL Fellows’ Career Service, in collaboration with the EMBL International PhD and Postdoc programmes and with support from EMBL’s Alumni relations office.
If you are an early-career researcher in the life sciences, navigating the career area of marketing may be daunting. To demystify this career path, we talked to Nadine Thaler, formerly a cancer research PhD and currently working as Team Leader Product Manager Applications at Hamilton Bonaduz AG, a…
In this blog post, Erminia Rubino shares how she made the transition from a PhD in the life sciences to a career in innovation and technology.
In this blog post Simon Schultze, Medical Director at GSK Austria shares how he made the transition from a PhD and postdoc in the life sciences to a career in medical affairs.
The Blue Book Traineeship offers an excellent opportunity to gain work experience in the European Commission’s operations and pave the way for a potential career at one of their Directorate-Generals or Agencies. Today, we interview a life scientist who, in her thirties and after completing a…
In this blog interview, we talk with EMBL alumna Anna Bartosik who applies her scientific background to a career in project management in the biotech sector. Anna kindly talked us through her career path, and her thoughts on the skills required to become a great project manager.
For this profile, we talked with Kinga Bercsenyi, Associate Director Business Development Translational Oncology Solutions at Champions Oncology. Kinga told us about her current role and how informational interviews were key for her transition from a postdoc to her first business development role.
For this career profile , we spoke with Dr Benjamin Anstett about his experience of working both for a large general management consulting company and smaller consulting companies focused on the life sciences industry.
Yavé Lozano shares his experience of moving into regulatory writing, a specialist medical communications role.
This blog post summarises a career panel discussion with four PIs from France, Spain, Malta and the Netherlands about what search committees expect from candidates at the interview stage.
This post summarizes the preliminary results from a survey we ran focused on the skills for a scientific career.
