Have you ever tried to explain to the public what you do for a living? And, how easy was it? Not much, right?! We know how you feel. Depending on your mood and who is asking, you might sound like you are speaking in a different boring language, or like you are one of those Read More …
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Twelfth Edition of the BioBusiness Summer School
BioBusiness Summer School is an introductory course for academics who are contemplating a career switch to industry and young professionals in their first industry jobs. This course will help you jumpstart your business career in the Life Sciences industry. During the five day programme you will learn the basics of the main business topics, such as Read More …
Mapping out your road…
What is going to determine your career choices as a PhD graduate? Your knowledge, your capabilities, opportunities that just happen to arise? This 2-day retreat challenges you to discover your PhD Power and the internal factors that drive you in what you do. The question then becomes: To what extent will you dare to let Read More …
SURF is looking for your input!
They would like to further develop their Research Cloud service, which is a virtual research environment, portal, and platform enabling collaborative working across institutes. Would you like to test the Research Cloud, and provide SURF with feedback on how it can help you create new workspace and choose collaborations, software, datasets, storage, and infrastructure? Please Read More …
Invitation: Career Challenge and drinks – 22th of March 2019
What if you could design something that boosts career orientation for PhDs and postdocs? Something that would help you explore different career opportunities, outside-of-academia options, focusing on all the different types of places where you and your talents can flourish. On Friday the 22th of March, from 1.30 pm to 5.30 pm at the Faculty Read More …
Contribute to the open science transition
One of the ambitions of the National Platform Open Science is to support researchers in the open science transition. We hereby kindly ask you to help us with that! The National Platform is setting up a registry of speakers on its website www.openscience.nl to spread knowledge and experiences in the field of open science. Read More …
Still many questions about new Vidi policy
The Vox magazine wrote an article on the new Vidi policy and its consequences for employment: https://www.voxweb.nl/international/still-many-questions-about-new-vidi-policy. According to Sebo Uithol, postdoc at the Donders Centre for Cognition, “There’s now a risk that institutes won’t allow their internal researchers to submit an application,” a concern shared by many others. What are your thoughts and experiences? Read More …
BCF Career Event – Thursday May 24th, 2018 – Utrecht
Mark your calendar on Thursday 24 May to visit the 14th edition of BCF Career Event! This is the largest career fair in Europe for Life Sciences, Chemistry, Food & Pharma. A visit to BCF Career Event offers you: – Over 80 exhibitors and employers on the exhibition floor – Inspiring programme & presentations Read More …
Sofokles conference: the challenges of career development for postdocs
Our chair Christina Helbig and Léon Ouwerkerk from CWI, the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands, discuss the challenges of career development for PhD students and postdocs (video in Dutch). What are the most important challenges, how to deal with those, and what inspired them during the SoFoKles conference on Read More …
Two free seats to Paul Janssen Futurelab Leiden’s online course on Clinical Development!
Do you wish to further your career and increase your knowledge on the development of novel medical interventions? Paul Janssen Futurelab Leiden is offering two members of PostdocsNL free ‘seats’ to their Clinical Development course. The online course starts April 9 and scholarships are available. For more info visit their website www.PaulJanssenFuturelab.eu Join the Read More …