Cultural & Social Activities Culture A new year – fresh start or social construct? Posted by natalievonderlehr January is here. For many a fresh start, maybe with new year resolutions or plans for the next 12 months ahead. In this post, some of the bloggers let you know their thoughts about the first month of the year. 18 January, 2023 0 comments
Christmas Calendar Popular science Science A huge 18 hexagonal mirrors containing telescope is about to be launched on Christmas Eve Posted by kristinakarale The largest telescope in human history, James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), is planned to be launched on Christmas Eve this year and is said to show the humanity the things […] 18 December, 2021 0 comments
Career portraits “S.O.S. – Stability Over Status” Posted by Guest Blog 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”. 24 April, 2019 0 comments
Career portraits “Resilience, grit and passion: the key for success in academia” Posted by Guest Blog “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.” 17 April, 2019 0 comments
Career portraits Inside-out career portraits: the post introducing our new series Posted by Ayla De Paepe 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? 20 March, 2019 26 comments
Internships outside academia Testing the water: my internship at VR Posted by Ayla De Paepe 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 […] 13 June, 2018 2 comments
Career portraits Find the passion and show you can do it! Posted by Terry.Fei I’ve recently taken a career course organized by KI career service office. Below is a portrait from my course assignment about a person, whom I interviewed and is currently working […] 15 March, 2016 0 comments
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