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Open Access Publishing: An Unexpectedly Hard Challenge

Open access publishing is the simple idea that publicly funded published science is accessible for free by anyone with an internet connection.

Posted by lucaloveki

25 February, 2024

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Peer review – a system that needs revision

Peer review benefits science, but the system needs revision

Posted by lucaloveki

20 January, 2024

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Meet the blogger – Libe Vilela

Never knew that writing my first blog ever would feel like stage fright, but here I am. Am I a little intimidated? Yes. Am I also excited to start a new chapter? Also Yes.

Posted by libevilela

7 June, 2023

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Fundamental and translational research are interdependent

Both fundamental and translational science is needed for progress.

Posted by lucaloveki

6 May, 2023

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Being nice in science is important

it’s more important to be a supportive co-worker rather than the expert with no emotional intelligence and a big ego

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Undefined

22 November, 2022

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An Umbrella Academy (Part 1)

The importance of choosing a good supervisor and their constant support in early career stages Umbrellas protect us from the sun, the rain, and the wind. Academic mentoring is somehow […]

Posted by andreacelestedv

22 November, 2022

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Why should you join KIPA?

The importance of peer community Being a successful postdoc professional is like performing an experiment that requires a lot of homework and a trial & error phase. Unfortunately, the methods […]

Posted by andreacelestedv

4 November, 2022

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“I have the right and the opportunity to be a generalist” – Career path of Matti Nikkola

I meet Matti Nikkola in his office at Biomedicum, where he works as Head of Education at the department of Cell and Molecular Biology at Karolinska Institutet. Matti’s office is full of things that he enjoys, and things he’s proud of. A robot dog, beautiful glass statues, and a vast collection of newspaper articles. I comment that it’s tidy despite all the objects. “With my job, you have to stay organized”, he explains.

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Career portraits of KI alumni

21 October, 2020

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“Be proactive and have a good mentor” – Career path of Carolina Hagberg

Carolina Hagberg is Assistant Professor at the Cardiovascular Medicine Unit at Karolinska Institutet (KI). She has recently established her own research group (Hagberg Lab) that studies the mechanisms involved in adipocyte nutrient uptake and energy metabolism in the healthy and obese state.

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Career portraits of KI alumni

3 September, 2020

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“Teaching is a beautiful way to give back to society” – Career path of Matthew Kirkham

Matthew Kirkham was the first person that gave me a teaching assignment as part of my PhD training. I hold him largely responsible for making me feel so passionate about teaching, so this was a great chance for me to share his story and his role as an educator at Karolinska Institutet.

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Career portraits of KI alumni

5 August, 2020

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“Freedom comes with responsibility” – Career path of Qiaolin Deng

It’s a gloomy February afternoon when I head towards Biomedicum cafeteria to meet Qiaolin Deng. As much as I feel tired with the short days and lack of sunshine I am soon to be positively charged with the energy that beams from my interviewee. Qiaolin greets me with a warm smile and sparkling eyes. It’s a very exciting time in her career.

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Career portraits of KI alumni

22 July, 2020

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Ljubica Matic – from a journalist to an outstanding scientist

Ljubica Matic is an Assistant Professor and a Team Leader of Vascular Molecular Medicine within the Division of Vascular Surgery at Karolinska University Hospital. Her scientific achievements are impressive. During the time she spent in the Vascular Surgery Group (2012 – present) she published 8 first-author papers, 1 last name paper and was a co-author on more than 42 publications, including 4 collaborative Nature-level pieces. Her teaming up with Professor Ulf Hedin resulted in an unprecedented multi-omics exploration of Biobank of Karolinska Endarterectomies (BiKE), which significantly increased the number of currently active projects relying on this resource to more than 70. In 2018 she was a co-recipient of the Heart-Lung Foundation’s Big Gift Grant of 15 million SEK and has been awarded the prestigious Sven and Ebba Hagberg Prize by Karolinska and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for her outstanding research on molecular mechanisms of smooth muscle cell function in atherosclerosis.

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Career portraits of KI alumni

19 June, 2019

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“Having the inner drive”

Thinking about the next step in his career, Marcus Buggert already contacted his future boss during his time as a PhD student and is today successfully building up his own group at Karolinska Institutet.

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Career portraits of KI alumni

29 May, 2019

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“Be good and always do your best”

Helena Idborg has the best job in the world. She is assistant professor in rheumatology at Karolinska Institutet, where she works in a dynamic environment. “I get to change work every time a new project starts. There are always new challenges, new scientific questions, and new methods to learn. I cannot picture a better job”, says Helena.

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Career portraits of KI alumni

15 May, 2019

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“Science takes you to new places”

Gunilla Karlsson Hedestam, professor at the department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC) at Karolinska Institutet, started her PhD in biochemistry at the University of Oxford and continued as a postdoc at Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. After her postdoc, she worked in a biotech company for 3 years and returned to academia afterwards. Now, her group focuses on the function of B lymphocytes and immunogenetics. She is one of the two researchers at Karolinska Institutet who received the ERC Advance Grant 2017 (granted in 2018) from the European Research Council.

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Career portraits of KI alumni

2 May, 2019

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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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“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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“Learn by doing and do what you love”

Katja Petzold, associate professor at Karolinska Institutet, is so enthusiastic about her science, that it is actually hard to talk about her career path as a scientist without discussing what she loves to study: the function and structure of RNA using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.

Posted by Joanne Bakker

Career portraits of KI alumni

21 March, 2019

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Inside-out career portraits: the post introducing our new series

When you’re in the middle of a PhD or a postdoc, it can be hard to imagine there will ever be a time after. But when all of this is done… Where will you go? What will you do? Who will you work for? In other words: which job are you actually supposed to be preparing for?

Posted by Ayla De Paepe

Career portraits of KI alumni

20 March, 2019

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