Alternative Career Paths

This annual event provides Postdoc/Early Career Researcher with alternative career path options beyond academia.

About this event

We want to encourage communication between IoPPN early career researchers (ECRs)/postdocs, career services and representatives from sectors outside academia. It aims to make postdoc attendees aware of career development support that is available within the IoPPN and to educate on how sectors outside academia operate. Attendees will be presented with career path options beyond academia. There will be 8x30-minute sessions with two speakers briefly presenting their career path followed by a Q&A session.

Programme:

CSRD | 11.00-11.30

Dr Tom Rusbridge - Research Staff Development Consultant, Centre for Research Staff Development, King's College London and Kate Murray - Senior Careers Consultant, Centre for Doctoral Studies and Centre for Research Staff Development, King's College London

Data Science | 11.30-12.00

Dr Grant Ian - Clinical Informatics Compute Support & Systems Engineer, King's College London andDr Ming "Tommy" Tang - Director of Computational Biology, ImmunitasTx

Entrepreneurship | 12.00-12.30

Dr Emilia Molimpakis - Co-Founder & CEO Thymia and Dr Sotiris Kakanos - Entrepeneur, Autoscientific Ltd

Science Comms | 12:30-13.00

Nicola Williams - Science Communications Officer, ARUK and Dr Karli Montague-Cardoso - Editor Nature Neuroscience

Science & Charities | 14.00-14.30

Dr Jorge Gomez Magenti - Research Manager, ARUK and Dr Lorenzo de la Rica Lazaro - Research Programme Manager, Cancer Grand Challenges

Pharma & Infrastructure | 14.30-15.00

Dr Stefanie Dedeurwaerdere - Head of Epilepsy Research, UCB, Dr Rebecca Northeast - Technical Specialist, Proteintech and Dr Sarah Gibson - Open Source Infrastructure Engineer at 2i2c

Teaching | 15.00-15.30

Dr Brenda Williams - Lead for the MSc in the Psychology and Neuroscience of Mental Health, IoPPN and Dr Eugenia Kravariti - Programme Leader, MSc in Mental Health Studies, IoPPN

Consultancy/Industry | 15.30-16.00

Dr Laure Lo Re - Consultancy and now startup researcher and Dr Michelle Edye - Research Funds Programme Manager

Please note the event will be recorded.