Career Talks
Currently we are involved in two different career talk series:
1.) Karrieregespräche für Postdocs - Außeruniversitäre Perspektiven in Industrie, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft [in German]
This series is mainly in German (but offers room for questions in english as well), and focuses on the transition from a postdoc position to the first position outside of academia. Here we have guests who extensively share their perspective on their current position, on the transition from academia to industry, and on many other perspectives. The format is a dialogue between the invited guest and the participants, and every question is welcome. This series is organised by the PCMO@GGL and PCMO@GGS, and covers a wide perspective on job opportunities outside of academia.
This online series normally takes place once a month from 18:00 to ca. 19:00/19:30h.
Online [BigBlueButton]
Details on the dates, speakers and registration can be found here:
https://www.uni-giessen.de/fbz/zentren/ggs/postdocs/karrierepostdoc/Karrieregespraeche
2.) Future Network Talks [in English]
This series is especially for (young) researchers from the life-science / medical sector. It is co-organized by the PCMO@GGL and the Max Planck institutes in Marburg and Bad Nauheim, as well as the Marburg school for microbiology. It features a short presentation of invited speakers and offers room for some questions. The series is in english.
This online series is normally scheduled for the first Friday every month from 12:00 to 13:00h.
Online [Zoom]
Details on dates and speakers as well as registration will be distributed by email (you can register for our newsletter here). The next dates can be found below:
Next Future Network Talks (via Zoom):
19 April, 2024, 12:00 - 13:00: Dr. Jennifer Kulhei
(Product Manager, Leica Microsystems)
"Shedding light on becoming a Product Manager"
Dr. Jennifer Kulhei studied biochemistry, biophysical chemistry and animal physiology at the Goethe University and performed her PhD thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research where she investigated the dedifferentiation of adult mouse cardiomyocytes post myocardial ischemia using widefield and confocal microscopy. This was the time she discovered her passion for microscopy. In September 2018 she joined the Product Management Team at Leica Microsystems and is responsible for the inverted widefield microscopy portfolio including the DMi8 based THUNDER Imagers.
Please register until April 18th to receive the Zoom link:
Past Future Network Talks:
08 March, 2024, 12:00 - 13:00: Dr. Nicholas Bachtadse (Patent Attorney, Olbricht Patentanwälte)
Our guest this time will be Dr. Nicholas Bachtadse.
He will give us insights into his career path and his current position in his talk:
"From Pipettes to Patents: How I became a Patent Attorney with a Biology Background"
After studying Biology and completing a PhD in Molecular Genetics, Dr. Nicholas Bachtadse left the lab and became a patent attorney. He is now leveraging his scientific background to assist clients in protecting their intellectual property in the fields of general biological sciences, biotechnology, and life sciences, including genetic engineering, molecular biology, diagnostics, microbiology, and medical technology. If you have ever wondered what a patent attorney does, what it takes to become one, and what a typical workday in such a position looks like, you are invited to this Future Network Talk.
16 February, 2024, 12:00 - 13:00: Dr. Alina Hartmann
Our guest will be the Dr. Alina Hartmann, currently working as a Bioinformatician at the Clinic for Internal Medicine II, Hematology and Oncology / University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel.
Dr Hartmann is a bioinformatician in translational clinical research, but came from a classic wet lab background and would be happy to share some of the turning points during her career, like how she came to switch her focus to computational biology (and how that is possible for everyone else too), how she had two children at fairly early stages of her career and how she managed to have a CV that includes "mobility" without moving abroad.
12 January, 2024, 12:00 - 13:00: Dr. Edigio Lacanna
(Manager for Technical Service at Qiagen )
Dr. Edigio Lacanna studied for Bachelor and Master in Genetics and Molecular Biology at "Sapienza" University of Rome until 2011. Then he worked on PhD projects under the supervision of Alex Böhm & Anke Becker at the University of Marburg from 2011 to 2016. In 2017, he joined QIAGEN as Associate Technical Service Scientist, where he is currently working as a Manager for Technical Service.
In his current role, he is leading a Team of more than 10 direct reports located in Poland, France, Turkey and Portugal and responsible for the Service business in Italy, France and Turkey. His main duties include team management, recruiting, onboarding & training of colleagues - following them from their day 1, accompanying them to develop into highly skilled professionals. He is heavily involved in Customer Centricity projects: review of customer feedback, discussion with customers and colleague and work towards implementation of improvement suggestions. Beside the management related duties, he still directly supports customers on a broad range of life science and CE-IVD marked products and diagnostic instruments in English and Italian: QIAstat-Dx, qPCR instruments, pyrosequencing, and several automated platforms including QIAsymphony.
[New date/new time] 08 December 2023, 13:00 - 14:00: Dr. Sri Teja Mullapudi
(Principal, Scientific Lead, Noetic Fund)
Dr. Sri Teja Mullapudi will share his thoughts on:
"Why your PhD is perfect training for most career paths".
With a goal of improving the mental health treatment landscape, Teja is a Principal with Noetic and has helped raise and deploy $60M+ in venture capital in the mental health sector across therapeutics, devices, digital modalities and currently serves in board roles for early-stage companies. Previously, he co-founded & led business development for a stealth neuropsychiatry-focused biotech; and is experienced in early stage investment opportunity analyses across therapeutic areas from TIAP (MaRS Innovation). Teja has a Ph.D. (summa) in biology from the Max Planck Society (MPI-HLR), and is trained as a Biotechnology engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India.
Teja will tell us how his career journey started after his PhD and which skills acquired in academy are highly valued in industry according to his experience. Interested to hear his thoughts?
To participate, please register until Dec 6th, 2023: Registration
Any questions and suggestions by you are very welcome during the event.
We are looking forward seeing many of you!
10 November 2023, 12:00 - 13:00: Dr. Nadja Kettern-Kunze
(Clinical Project Manager, Novartis Pharma GmbH)
After completing her dissertation at the University of Bonn and a postdoc at the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut in Langen, Nadja started with two short employments at a start-up and a medium-sized pharmaceutical company before she embarked on a career in clinical research as a freelance Clinical Research Associate (CRA). One of her primary clients was Novartis Pharma, and after her parental leave, she was hired as a Senior CRA in a permanent position. Recently, Nadja transitioned into the role of a Clinical Project Manager, overseeing clinical studies across Europe.
14 July 2023 from 12:00 - 13:00: Dr. Nicole Paczia.
In hybrid format in the Seminar Room 3 (MPI-Marburg) and via zoom.
Nicole is going to share with us her experiences leading up to her position as the head of the metabolomics unit at MPI Marburg. She began her scientific career as a doctoral student at Forschungszentrum Jülich and later continued as a Platform Manager and Junior PI at the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine. She can give us a great perspective on transitioning to a position of responsibility within the academic world without being tied to the tradition of continuing as a principal investigator.
