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The Final Countdown: Your Thesis Defence

It’s time to finish the PhD. But the process requires some good planning to make sure it all goes smoothly. Since I am defending my own thesis soon, and have just been through this process, I have summarised the different steps in this post.

Posted by lucaloveki

19 August, 2024

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Meet the Blogger – Hager Saleh

Hello, curious minds! I’m Hager Saleh, and I’m thrilled to be here. I am PhD student, while also working as a pharmacovigilance professional at a company in Stockholm. My PhD studies at Karolinska Institute focus on improving medicine usage focusing on antibiotics resistance.

Posted by hagersaleh

26 February, 2024

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Meet the blogger – Tracer Yong

Hi there, my name is Tracer Yong, I am a second-year PhD student studying tumour immunology at KI. It is truly an honour to meet you, and I will tell you a short story of mine.

Posted by tracery

30 November, 2023

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The Journey of Grieving

KI postdoc and blogger Oksana Goroshchuk is mourning the loss of her friends in the Ukrainian war and lets us in on her thoughts about dealing with grief. Even though […]

Posted by Oksana Goroshchuk

Undefined

13 September, 2023

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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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A PhD is an education

a PhD is an education and learning experience for science and beyond. A PhD should leave you with lifelong professional skills, confidence, and the know-how to succeed in any career.

Posted by lucaloveki

30 November, 2022

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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

Posted by lucaloveki

Undefined

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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Managing expectations

Are you pushing through sore muscles or an injury? Do you need to push harder to gain endurance, or give your ligaments a break? Are you building up muscle or just grinding your joints at this point?

Posted by Paula Valente-Silva

Culture

5 February, 2021

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A wish to make a real difference – Career Path of Linnea Eriksson

Her first dream job was to become an archeologist and live the life of Indiana Jones. After realizing, that what she has known from books is not even nearly as exciting as she thought, she wanted to be a veterinarian. Currently, Linnea Eriksson holds a Ph.D. degree in Medical Sciences and works as a Clinical Trial Manager, but all of the above seem to share at least two common features: genuine interest in science and a wish to make a real difference.

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Career portraits of KI alumni

26 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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“Remember to bottle the grand feelings”

Magnus Wetterhall was hooked on mass spectrometry during his master’s thesis and went on to conduct a PhD in analytical chemistry at Uppsala University. “I started my PhD in the late 90s when mass spectrometry was far from as developed as it is today. We were working on technical solutions and methods to enhance the analysis. This new field of research was very exciting, and I was eager to make new discoveries.”

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Career portraits of KI alumni

22 May, 2019

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“S.O.S. – Stability Over Status”

Knut Steffensen left his position as Associate Professor at Karolinska Institutet to work as Medical Advisor in a company. “Although many people think the opposite, after 20 years in academia I’m still connected to it and I think I could still go back, not necessarily in research. There’s need for industrial experience also in academia, and more doors are opened now than before”.

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Career portraits of KI alumni

24 April, 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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“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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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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Overcoming My Pipette Syndrome – My Internship At VR

About a year ago, I put myself into a poisonous comfort zone. I made peace with the laboratory routine so that I would not entertain the idea of doing something […]

Posted by Shady Kamal

Internships outside academia

13 March, 2019

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Testing the water: my internship at VR

While struggling to remember people’s names (most of them seem to be Anna or Maria, how can I still get that wrong?), or to recognize the right floor (it’s the one […]

Posted by Ayla De Paepe

Internships outside academia

13 June, 2018

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The Final Countdown: Your Thesis Defence

Meet the Blogger – Hager Saleh

Meet the blogger – Tracer Yong

The Journey of Grieving

Meet the blogger – Libe Vilela

A PhD is an education

Being nice in science is important

Why should you join KIPA?

Managing expectations

A wish to make a real difference – Career Path of Linnea Eriksson

“Having the inner drive”

“Remember to bottle the grand feelings”

“S.O.S. – Stability Over Status”

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

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

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

Overcoming My Pipette Syndrome – My Internship At VR

Testing the water: my internship at VR

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Being nice in science is important

Why should you join KIPA?

Managing expectations

A wish to make a real difference – Career Path of Linnea Eriksson

“Having the inner drive”

“Remember to bottle the grand feelings”

“S.O.S. – Stability Over Status”

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

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

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

Overcoming My Pipette Syndrome – My Internship At VR

Testing the water: my internship at VR

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