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“Resilience, grit and passion: the key for success in academia”

“Never forget the fun part of your work and choose the right mentor to work with.” This is the secret of Myriam Aouadi, who works as Principal Investigator at Karolinska Institutet since 2015. “At every step of my career I was about to choose between academia and industry: I was not seeing lots of opportunities in academia, while I really wanted a stable job and a good salary. But I still like academia better.”

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Career portraits of KI alumni

17 April, 2019

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“Life is a box of new things to be learned”

Ulf Orrenius is now the CEO of a small start-up company with six employees trying to develop new technological solutions for the refinement of biofertilizers which are of better environmental sustainability. After being a technical specialist at the large international company Bombardier for nearly 18 years, his new job deals with a totally different area and tasks.

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Career portraits of KI alumni

10 April, 2019

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“My passion lies in solving real life problems”

Lydia Kwak is now an associate professor in the Unit of Intervention and Implementation research at IMM, Karolinska Institutet. Her main research area is intervention and implementation research, with a focus on health promotion at workplaces.

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Career portraits of KI alumni

3 April, 2019

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Scientist in disguise…

Guest blog post by Giulia Gaudenzi, PhD student and participant in the course Career Skills for Scientists and the internship program for PhD-students. In September/October 2017 she did an internship with […]

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Internships outside academia

26 October, 2017

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