Suzan Mansourian

Bärbel is a Research Career Expert & Advisor. Her main expertise is to advise young researchers how to successfully conduct and complete their PhD studies, how to apply for academic jobs, and how to improve research performance and efficiency.

Dear listeners, it is with great joy that we welcome you to our new home and to episode 101 of PhD Career Stories.

In this episode, Tina interviews Lauran Fuller. Lauran talks about her experience being an entrepreneur, doctoral student and a mother at the same time.

In this podcast, Tina Persson interviews Dr. Adam Sierakowiak with a focus topic: the career transition into the pharmaceutical industry.

In this episode, Tina Persson interviews Dr. Elena Itskovich and Dr. Ofer Yizhar Barnea. The main topics discussed in this podcast are the importance of networking and digital presence. For the first time, we bring you a podcast in video format.

Dr. Wolfgang Nellen is a professor in Brawijaya University in Malang, Indonesia. In this podcast he shares in experience in transitioning from a student to a professor's role and how that changes one's duties

Dr. Anestis Dougkas returns for a tips & tricks-themed podcast on how you can prepare for an international career and become part of the global workforce.

Dr. Jon Tennant holds a PhD in palaeontology. He has been a fervent challenger of the status quo in scholarly communication and publishing, and became the Communications Director of ScienceOpen for two years in 2015.

Tina Persson talks with a group of alumnae from the Max Planck Society about the benefits of a network to build your career during and after the PhD.

Dr. Erik Alexandersson is an associate professor at SLU, Sweden.

Magnus holds a position as a researcher, lecturer and project manager at KTH - The Royal Institute of Technology, in Stockholm.

Dr Lina Tengdelius holds a MSc in Chemistry and a PhD in Materials Science with specialisation in Thin Film Physics from Linköping University, Sweden. She recently transitioned from academia to a role as a Consultant Manager at Dfind Science & Engineering

Dr. Martjin Bijker shares his journey into the pharmaceutical industry and how he became a career coach.

Dr. Karin Bodewits founded the career platform NaturalScience.Careers. She works as an author, speaker and seminar leader for a range of communication topics. She is the author of the novel ‘You Must Be Very Intelligent — The PhD Delusion’, published by Springer Nature.

Joakim converses with his son Johan Bertil Muschött about the method of coaching and how you as a PhD student or PhD can benefit from professional coaching. He also talks about the different occupations and how they differ and what services you may expect as a coachee.

Dr. Dennis Fink shares how he became a science communicator and started his own company right after a PhD. 

The founder of the podcast Dr. Tina Persson discusses the question that every PhD faces sooner or later in his/her academic career: “Should I make a postdoc or not?”

Dr.Johanna Dutton shares her best tips and tricks on resume writing. We will learn how we can make our application letter and CV stand out and why it’s important to demonstrate other skills than the academic ones.

Dr. Matthias Antonin will tell you about his journey from being a PhD student to working at the Startup Program Marketing & Sales of Roche Pharma.

Joakim explaines  how career coaching can assists you in making the choices that best fit to your personality, to identify your expertise and skills and how to match these to your next career step.

Dr. Luca Forcucci hold a PhD in Music, Technology and Innovation. In his research, he investigated how the human brain perceives sounds and space, and how our memories influence the images that we create while listening to the sounds.

Dr. Maria João Pereira shares stories about her transition from academia to industry

Dr. Per Arnäs is a logistics researcher, podcaster, public speaker, blogger and entrepreneur with an - as he puts it - unhealthy interest in the digitalization of transportation.

Dr. Quitmeyer describes himself as a hacker and adventurer, studying intersections between wild animals and computational devices. His academic research in “Digital Naturalism” at the National University of Singapore blends biological fieldwork and DIY digital crafting.

Today marks the PhD Career Stories' two year anniversary. We discuss matters such as 'Why do we think this podcast is so important? What learnings and insights have we gained so far? What are we expecting from the future?'

Dr. Priya Revathikumar shares her story on how she turned obstacles into opportunities while making the transition from academia to industry as well as some do’s and don’ts to consider along that path.