SymbNET Virtual Career Development Event for Postdocs
Date: 28 Apr 2022, 15:00-16:30 (WEST) // 16:00-17:30 (CEST)
Format: online
This event was designed for the SymbNET postdoc network, but it is open to the entire research community of SymbNET. Registration is mandatory.
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To map a career and plan career moves, we must consider where to start, what to prepare, and how to think about the options ahead. Alongside the theory of how to build a professional profile, start the job-finding process and make decisions about the future, we will hear from three experts on academic research, science training and education, and science communication about their own experience: the career steps they have taken, the challenges faced, and the advice they have for anyone wishing to follow a similar career path.
Moderator
Verity Elston, UNIL
Guests
Ana Catarina Certal – Scientific Platforms Coordinator | Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal.
Inês Crisóstomo – Research Facilitator, trainer and coach | University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Ana Godinho – Head of Education, Communications and Outreach | CERN, Switzerland.
Ana Catarina Certal has a PhD in Cell Biology and has been a researcher in the fields of cell and developmental biology for more than 25 years using different models, from plants to vertebrates.
In 2011, she joined the new Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown (CCU) to set up and coordinate the Fish Platform. The Platform is intimately involved with research labs in the development of new technologies for transgenesis and gene editing as well as with companies for the validation of new feeds and generation of new engineering solutions for facility management. Since 2017 she coordinates the CCU Molecular and Transgenic Tools Platform (MTTP).
Catarina is an invited assistant professor at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology at NOVA University of Lisbon (FCT-NOVA) teaching a master course on Developmental Biology, and she is currently an alumnus of an exciting new Post-graduation in Fundamentals of Medicine where scientists are taught to think and act like physicians.
She has also co-founded CONGENTO (Consortium for Genetically Tractable Organisms), part of the National Roadmap of Research Infrastructures.
Inês Crisóstomo has been working in international and multicultural academic environments, aiming to solve problems, manage projects and, most importantly, empower people.
Inês has a degree and PhD in Biology (Lisbon and New York) and has over 10 years’ experience in Science Management, most of them focusing on Scientific Training. Currently, she works as a Research Facilitator at the University of Luxembourg and as a freelance Trainer and Coach. From 2013 to 2019, she was the Head of Scientific Training at the Vienna BioCenter, in Vienna, Austria, where she was responsible for the training programs of 4 renowned institutes in Life Sciences. Before, she worked as the Advanced Training Coordinator at Instituto de Medicina Molecular (IMM), Lisbon, Portugal.
Regularly, Inês organises workshops on career management and interpersonal communications (focused mainly student/supervisor relationship) for scientist. “As a coach, I see myself as an enabler, a catalyst, supporting personal growth and change, encouraging them to to think and explore their strengths and challenges. Furthermore, I have a keen interest in science communication and public engagement. My ultimate goal of brokering knowledge and building bridges between different groups/audiences.”
Inês is participating in the accredited program “Foundations in Coaching Practice”, by i-coach Academy. She is a Member of the CARE network (Career Advisors supporting Researchers in Europe) and of the Marie Curie Alumni Association. She also regularly acts as an expert on the European Commission MSCA actions.
Ana Godinho is currently Head of Education, Communications and Outreach at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, where she is responsible for planning and executing the Organization’s strategies for internal and external communications, education and public engagement in science.
Before joining CERN, Ana was Head of Communications at the Portuguese national funding agency for science and research and previously held posts in science communication at biomedical research centres in Portugal and in the UK. Ana is a scientist turned communicator. She holds a PhD in Developmental Neurobiology from the University of London and an MSc in Science Communication from the Open University (UK).
Ana has published papers on science communication and sat on review boards in Portugal, Switzerland, Ireland and Luxembourg. She co-authored a children’s book of science experiments and has collaborated in science outreach projects in Europe, Africa and Brazil.
Organisers
Karina Xavier, Leonor Ruivo, Mariana G Simões | FCG-IGC
Verity Elston | UNIL
Margarida Trindade | ITQB NOVA
Rachel Coulthard-Graf, Patricia Cabezas | EMBL
Cleo Pietschke | CAU
FCG-IGC Postdoc committee
ITQB NOVA Postdoc committee
This event is open and free of charge to the entire research community of SymbNET, but registration is mandatory.
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We are looking forward to your participation!