Organiser: Prof. Ted Turlings, University of Neuchâtel

Symposium together with the master students in biology of the University of Neuchâtel.

Venue: online!

The objective of this short workshop is to give you an impression of what skills and competences would be important for you to have if you wish to work for industry or a research institution. There will be presentations by qualified representatives of companies and non-academic institutions. The invited speakers were all students or postdocs at the University of Neuchâtel and therefore are perfect real examples of what it takes to have a successful career within or outside of academia.

The invited speakers will each give a 15-minute presentation in which they introduce themselves and their company (or institution), with an emphasis on what skills they would be looking for in future employees. After each presentation we have reserved 10 minutes for questions and at the end of the presentations we will still have a general discussion.

All that is expected from you is that you actively participate by asking appropriate questions.

Preliminary Program

•  Lamine Mbow, Senior VP – Head of NBE Discovery – Ichnos Sciences Biotherapeutics SA, Epalinges VD
• Andrea Balmer, Program Manager – Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture, Basel
• Lucien Rufener, Managing Director – INVENesis, Neuchâtel
• Ivan Hiltpold, Scientific Collaborator – Entomology Group – Agroscope, Nyon
• Dave Martin, Patent Attorney, and Vincent Harraca, Associate Research Director – Firmenich International, Geneva
• Christelle Robert, Group Leader – Chemical Ecology Group – University of Bern
• Lucien Bovet, Senior Scientist – Tobacco Biology – Philip Morris International, Neuchâtel

Date: 10 December 2020

Schedule: 13:30 - 17:30

Venue:  online

ECTS: no ECTS for this activity

Information: Please contact the doctoral program coordinator Dr Pauline Fritsch

Registration fee: free

This course is free and open to all DPOB PhD students, however, for organisational purposes, registration is mandatory. If you do not register, we will not be able to send you the Zoom meeting invitation link.

Registration Closed

Deadline: 26 November 2020 => extended to 4 December 2020 !