Welcome to the website for the Annual Career Symposium. This is an event jointly organized by faculties of the CMCB, the MPI-CBG, the DIGs-BB and of the Excellence Cluster Physics of Life (PoL) at the TU-Dresden. This event focuses on career opportunities inside and outside of academia for PhD students and post-docs. We will be hosting fantastic speakers, who will discuss about their career paths, as well as a company fair.
The next symposium will take place June 2, 2023 in the Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden.
08:30 – 9:00 | Registration and Welcome session |
9:00 – 9:30 | Keynote speaker: Seher Abbas |
9:30 – 10:30 | Academia panelists |
10:30 – 11:00 | Career fair and networking with coffee and tea |
11:00 – 12:00 | Industry speakers Session I Andrea Leibfried – “Supporting science - from bench to management” Christian Kuttner – “Life as an Editor in the Nature Portfolio” Sandy R. Westermann – “The Art of Scientific Illustration: How I Turned My Passion Into a Career.” |
12:00 – 14:00 | Lunch & Career fair |
14:00 – 15:20 | Industry speakers Session II Vinzenz Lange – “Solving challenges in science and technology: my path from academia to the DKMS Life Science Lab” Anne Heninger Tobias Heckel – “My journey in the Diagnostic & Pharma Industry - insights into Product Development focused Research” Anne Wuttke – “From Science to Innovation OR Is the grass greener on the other side?” |
15:20 – 16:00 | Career fair and networking with coffee and tea |
16:00 – 17:00 | Industry speakers Session III Helena Klara Jambor – “Moonlighting around academia - a life of fun, fiction, and failures” Thorsten Baust – “From Dresden to Harvard to Vienna: My Journey from Academia to Industry with Boehringer Ingelheim” Yu-Wen Hsieh – “Equipping for Stepping into Biotech/Pharma Consulting Realm” |
| 17:00 – 19:00 | Networking session with drinks and snacks |
