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What to do after your postdoc? What career options are there? What motivated other postdocs to choose for a particular career path? How do they like it and what skills do they consider important? We have lined up some role-models to inspire you. We are continuously extending this selection for careers in the life sciences, whether it is academia, industry, government, non-profit etc.
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As concerned careers in academia, we are particularly looking for principle investigators who are greatly appreciated by their PhD students/postdocs for their support. You know your PI best, so we invite you to nominate your PI,
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his/her name with a brief description.
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After obtaining her BSc in Biochemistry from UMIST, Manchester, England and MSc Food Biotechnology from Strathclyde University in Glasgow, Niki Georgiou pursued the position of Junior Researcher at the Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology Division of Utrecht University working on Aflatoxin decontamination by fungi. After 3 years she joined the IRAS (Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences) for one year before starting her PhD in 1997 on Iron chelation and HIV-1 replication at the University Medical Centre Utrecht.
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At the department of Cell Biology II, Farid - with the help of many excellent co-workers- is working on the development of chemical approaches toward protein conjugates. Farid El Oualid studied Chemistry at Leiden University (2000) and earned his PhD in Chemistry from the same university (2005). After obtaining a Marie-Curie Fellowship, he spent 3 years as a post-doctoral researcher at Oxford University (2005 – 2008). In the group of Huib Ovaa at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, Farid has developed a new chemical protein-ligation technology that forms the basis of the NKI-AvL spin-off UbiQ (Huib Ovaa is co-inventor and co-founder).
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Koen Verhoef is Manager of the Technology Transfer Office of the NKI-AvL since 1 May 2009. In this role, he is also responsible for the coordination of the valorisation activities of the Cancer Genomics Centre. Prior to this, he worked as a business developer/IP specialist within the Technology Transfer Office (TTO) of VU University (VU) and VU University medical centre (VUmc) in Amsterdam.
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During her PhD in molecular microbiology, Freya Senf realised that being in the lab day in day out was not her cup of tea. She therefore orientated herself on a career outside science and signed up for a career development course. This was helpful and made her realise what she sought in a job. After obtaining her PhD, she worked at Hezelburcht BioTop BV as a grant consultant for Life Science research. She assisted both academic scientists and companies in obtaining grants, and managed support offices for grant management. After a year she realised that she preferred a job that was less focused on profit but more on applied science and technology transfer.
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