Career days 2015

We will once again host the VBC Career days, specially targeted for PhD Students and Postdocs from IMP/IMBA/GMI*.

This year there will be two main events:

Oct 20-21 | Workshop on "Applying for a non-academic position"

Nov 24 | Career Symposium

Workshop "Applying for a non-academic position"

Consultants: Mediatum (http://www.mediatum.com/)^#

Date: October 20-21, 2015

Time: 9:00 am – 18:00 pm

Target audience: PhD students (in their 3rd or 4th year) and Postdocs who need support with career management and career development

Number of participants: 30

Objectives:

To familiarise participants with the expectations of the business sector towards applicants and the entry criteria
To inform participants about necessary additional skills and qualifications to develop their career, to get attractive internships and jobs
To prepare participants for job applications – condensing everything an applicant has to do or fulfill
To enable participants to create job winning CVs
To ensure that the participants have the skills necessary to succeed in job interviews
To prepare the participants for contract negotiations, both in Europe and internationally
To visualise career tracks in industry

^#The concept for this workshop was put together by the four Research Institutes, together with Mediatum.

More information

Career Symposium

During this day you will have the opportunity to listen, and ask questions, to a variety of speakers (many of them VBC alumni) following different non-academic (but research- or science-related) career paths. No registration required.

Updated on November 19, 2015

November 24 | 10h15 - 16h45
GMI/IMBA Lecture Hall

10:15-10:30 Opening: Welcome & Introduction
Ines Crisostomo & Markus Kiess

PART I

10:30-11:00 Novartis GmbH, Germany
Speaker: Lothar Färber, Medical Director

**Cancelled** Bayer AG, Germany
Speaker: Michael Metzlaff, Head of Innovation Relations

11:00 -11:30 Nestlé S.A., Switzerland
Speaker: Stefan Catsicas, Chief Technology Officer and Executive Board Member

11:30-11:45 Coffee Break

11:45-12:15 Syngenta AG, Switzerland
Speaker: Sarah Perfect, Global Collaboration & Licensing Manager R&D

12:15-12:45 BioLamina AB, Sweden
Speaker: Kristian Tryggvason , Founder & CEO of BioLamina AB

12:45-14:45 Buffet Lunch & informal talks

PART II

14:45-15:15 Open Science, Vienna
Speaker: Alexandra Schebesta, Project Manager

15:15-15:45 St. Anna Kinderkrebsforschung, St. Anna Kinderspital Vienna (Children’s Cancer Research Institute), Vienna
Speaker: Nuno Andrade, International Grants Manager

15:45-16:15 Institute for Health and Consumer Protection, European Commission DG Joint Research Centre, Italy
Speaker: Sandra Caldeira, Project Manager, Public Health Policy Support

16:15-16:45 Baxalta, Inc., Baxter AG and Baxter Innovations GmbH
Speaker: Olga Bannikova , Medical Operations Specialist, Department of Medical Affairs

16:45 – open end Wine & Cheese

Organising committee:

Monika Abramczuk (PhD Student, IMBA); Ingrid Hums (PhD Student, IMP); Sabine Jurado (Postdoc, IMP); Magdalena Renner (PhD Student, IMBA); Jan Suhren (PhD Student, IMBA); Divya Vashisht (Postdoc, GMI) with Carmen Ilic (Human Resources, GMI) and Inês Crisóstomo (Scientific Training Coordinator, IMP/IMBA/GMI)

For further inquiries please contact Ines Crisostomo ines.crisostomo(at)gmi.oeaw.ac.at

* The MFPL will organize a career day with workshops in October.