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Partnership Manager Helps Advance Drug Discovery

Name: Helene Fachim (she/her) PhD: Psychobiology/Neuroscience, University of São Paulo, 2013 What was your main area of research? I...

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Technology Transfer Specialist Gets to Evaluate Inventions

Name: Faheem Ullah (he/him) PhD: Neuroscience/Neuropharmacology, University of Western Sydney, 2020 What was your main area of research?...

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Professor of 10 Years, Now Director of Learning Sciences

Name: Shiv Smith Karunakaran (he/him) PhD: Curriculum & Instruction (Mathematics Education), Pennsylvania State University, 2014 What was...

33 minutes ago2 min read

Global Lead Emphasizes That There Are No Rules

Name: Patricia Valerio (she/her) PhD: Neurosciences, University of Basel, 2022 What was your main area of research? My PhD focused on...

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Lead Data Scientist Says Her Job Is Never Boring!

Name: Maia Frieser (she/her) PhD: Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado - Boulder, 2020 What was your main area of research? I...

1 day ago3 min read

Reddit UX Researcher Highly Recommends an Internship

Name: Carl Pearson (he/him) PhD: Human Factors Psychology, North Carolina State University, 2019 What was your main area of research? My...

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VP of Medical Affairs Helps Cure the Incurable

Name: Nick Sanford (he/him) PhD: Biology, Texas Tech University, 2015 What was your main area of research? I studied the molecular...

2 days ago2 min read

Program Coordinator Chose a Career That Supports Her Life

Name: Imon Candelaria (she/her) PhD: Cancer Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2021 What was your main area of research?...

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Policy Analyst Works to Make People Healthier

Name: Krystin Carlson (she/they) PhD: Toxicology, University of Michigan, 2019 What was your main area of research? I studied the...

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Research Associate Values Her Intellectual Curiosity

Name: Tara Riggs (she/her) PhD: Political Science, Binghamton University, 2023 What was your main area of research? I studied sexism and...

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Software Engineer Encourages You to Start Building Things

Name: Jon Strutz (he/him) PhD: Chemical & Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, 2022 What was your main area of research? I...

5 days ago2 min read

Field Application Scientist Says to Enjoy the Journey

Name: Jacquet Maxime PhD: Parasitology, Université of Neuchâtel, 2015 What was your main area of research? I studied the transmission of...

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Researcher on a Mission to Drive Social Impact

Name: Nicky Sullivan (he/him) PhD: Psychology, Stanford University, 2024 What was your main area of research? I studied how children...

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Lab Coordinator Utilizes Her PhD Project Management Skills

Name: Sylwia Magdziarz (she/her) PhD: Chemistry, Lodz University of Technology, 2025 What was your main area of research? I was working...

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Linguist Works on Ray-Ban Meta AI Glasses

Name: Alice Shen (she/her) PhD: Linguistics, University of California Berkeley, 2020 What was your main area of research? I studied how...

Apr 162 min read

Computational Biologist Gets to Work with a Variety of Data

Name: Daren Card (he/him) PhD: Biology, University of Texas - Arlington, 2018 What was your main area of research? I am an evolutionary...

Apr 153 min read

Senior Scientist Encourages You to Start the Job Search Early

Name: Pietro Cocchiara (he/him) PhD: Molecular Pharmacology, University of Glasgow, 2024 What was your main area of research? My area of...

Apr 142 min read

Senior Associate Left Academia After 6+ Years

Name: Gabrielle Filip-Crawford (she/her) PhD: Social Psychology, Arizona State University, 2015 What was your main area of research? My...

Apr 143 min read

Business Intelligence Developer Builds Data Models

Name: Eric James Stephens (he/him) PhD: Rhetoric, Communication, and Information Design, Clemson University, 2018 What was your main area...

Apr 141 min read

Research Data Facilitator Has a Lot of Freedom in His Career

Name: Brad Rittenhouse (he/him) PhD: English, University of Miami, 2017 What was your main area of research? I mostly looked at 19th...