Welcome To Papa PhD
Exploring Career Paths & Life After Grad School.
Latest Episodes
Margaret Magdesian – Finding Balance in the Eye of the Storm
How easy is it to be a female scientist? How easy is it to be a female founder and CEO? How easy is it to find work/life balance when...
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Drew Slack – Powering Through Change with Drive and Positivity
What happens when you have all your ducks lined up and the universe throws you a curveball? That’s the moment when you have to regroup, reflect deeply on what...
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Abel Polese – Building a Career – Failure by Failure
Can life be made exclusively of successes? Can you find fulfillment in a job that pays well but is not aligned with your values? Does every postdoc get to...
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Simon Moore – From Academia to Industry
In today’s life, your ability to pivot and to embrace new projects is key. You are actually expected to change employment on a 3 to 5-year cycle in the...
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Virginie Levasseur – La passion pour le développement international
Les cheminements que vous suivrez après vos études graduées peuvent prendre des tournants très variés. Il se peut que vous suiviez un parcours purement académique, une carrière en industrie...
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Sathy Rajasekharan – Landing Your Dream Job Through Exploration and Networking
Your dream job is out there somewhere. The one you were made for, the one you deserve. It may be one handshake away, one conversation away, one introduction away....
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David Freiheit – Merging Law, Popularization, and Content Creation
Life is not in black and white. Your life, who you are, is a patchwork stemming from your upbringing, your experiences, who you’ve met, the choices you’ve made. What...
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Simon Landry – Un trajet en recherche et en communication en français
Pourquoi faire une maîtrise ? Pourquoi faire un doctorat ? Tout ça peut paraître bien compliqué et bien difficile quand on termine notre baccalauréat. Une conversation avec un professeur...
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Kirsten (Dr. Kiki) Sanford – Following the Passion of Science Communication
If you decide to embark on the graduate studies journey, you may find yourself telling stories. Stories about ideas, stories about science, stories about stories. You will focus and...
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Featured Guests
Skills Development Professional
Growing up, Falisha was curious about everything. She started learning music and dance at an early age, and this, combined with her taste for learning, brought her, eventually, to a PhD looking at the brain of people formal training in dancing. Today, she puts her neuroscience background to use developing training and resources for graduate students and post-docs.
Doctoral Researcher, YouTubeR
Stefanie has fallen out of love and back in love with research. Currently finishing her PhD in skin cancer, she has a clear idea of where she wants to go professionally and thrives in sharing this clarity with her peers through the medium of her YouTube channel and by taking active part in her institute’s and her university’s career and placement activities and governing bodies.
Researcher and Entrepreneur
Pedro’s past as a semi-professional team captain has shaped him and the way he approaches life and its challenges. He thrives on getting people around a table to build projects that bring value to communities and to society. Today, Pedro does stem cell research while at the same time developing and managing different initiatives that are close to his heart and to his values.
Doctoral Researcher Musicology
A dedicated mom and curious by nature, Inês has had an atypical career path that led her from the biological sciences to arts, with many a detour in between. Having sung opera on a stage and founded a cultural and community support NGO in Berlin, she is currently working towards her PhD in musicology.
Science Communicator
Joana started her scientific academic journey with a bachelor’s in Pharmacy. Her inquisitive mind led her to a PhD in organic chemistry and to a first experience abroad. Eventually, Joana came back to Portugal and through different contacts and following her different interests, she ended up developing a particular set of skills around science communication.
Doctoral Researcher, Entrepreneur
Fábio is a very driven PhD student following his love of science and developing projects he can translate into businesses. He is doing his PhD between Portugal and Sweden, but the world is his research team, and his current projects involve developing cell reprogramming tools to help kill tumoral cells in different types of cancer.
Scientific Designer
While obtaining his PhD, Gil discovered he had a penchant for graphic design – in his words, he noticed he was more worried about the quality of his figures than that of his data, at a certain point. He eventually graduated and pursued opportunities that allowed him to further hone his skills and eventually made it a full time job.
Principal Investigator, Science Communicator
Patrícia leads a lab focusing on the mechanisms behind autism. A scientific globetrotter, she has blazed a path for herself, finding platforms and funding that allowed her to build up her scientific acumen and network, and eventually build her own research lab. Her second love is talking about what she does and being a role model for burgeoning scientists.
Career Conversations – Setting Standards and Knowing Your Worth as a Researcher
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