Career Day 30 January 2024

Career day for PhD students and Postdocs

Don't leave your future to chance – learn more about your future job opportunities.

When and where

30 January 2024 13:00-16:00, BRIC: Ole Maaløesvej 5, 2200 Copenhagen

The aim of the event is to provide an overview of non-academic career possibilities as well as introducing the companies to the young talents.

Career Day is a 3-hour event that begins with the companies briefly presenting themselves, followed by a fair, where young researchers (PhD/PostDoc) and companies can meet and network.

Companies are not required to bring job adverts to the Career Day or to be recruiting specific profiles at the time of the event.

Companies

Below you can see a list of companies attending the career day:

• AstraZeneca
• BII
• Bioneer
• Devote Consulting
• Gubra
• Implement Consulting
• Leo Pharma
• Lundbeck
• Minerva Imaging
• Novo Nordisk
• Symphogen
• Takeda

More companies will follow.

Preliminary programme

Time	Venue	Speaker	Title
13.00-13.05	Lundbeck Auditorium	Professor Shohreh Issazadeh-Navikas, Head of MoMeD	Welcome
13.05-13.20	Lundbeck Auditorium	Lone Veng, Senior Director, Precision Medicine & Biomarkers, Novo Nordisk	Inspirational Talk
13.20-13.50	Lundbeck Auditorium	Company representatives	Brief company presentations
14.00-16.00	3rd & 4th floor	Company market	Company Market
14.30-15.30	Seminar Room, 2nd floor	Stephan Bouman, Head of Project Portfolio Management, Medicon Valley Alliance	How to transition into a career beyond academia

Workshop

1 hour workshop with Stephan Bouman, Head of Project Portfolio Management, Medicon Valley Alliance. 

Title: How to transition into a career beyond academia.
The workshop will address topics such as life science careers, the academic vs the private sector and their differences in workstyles, types of companies and jobs, transitioning and transferable skills, how to network and contact companies, and the corporate application and recruitment process.

Location: Seminar Room, 2nd floor, Ole Maaløes Vej 5, 2200 CPH N

The workshop is limited to 50 participants.

Registration for the workshop takes place through the registration for the Career Day.

Registration

The event is free of charge, but you will need to sign up: Registration is closed (15 January)

Organisers

The event is organised by three graduate programmes affiliated with the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen:

• Molecular Mechanisms of Disease (MoMeD)
• Drug Research Academy - pharmaceutical sciences (DRA)
• In Vivo Pharmacology and Experimental Animals (IVP)

The programme collaboration steering committee:

• Professor Petrine Wellendorph, Head of Drug Research Academy
• Professor Shohreh Issazadeh-Navikas, Head of MoMeD
• Professor Jens Lykkesfeldt, Head of IVP
• Irina Reichert, MoMeD coordinator
• Camilla Ebert, MoMeD coordinator
• Marianne W. Jørgensen, DRA, PhD Coordinator
• Lotte Endsleff, DRA Programme secretary

Contact

In case you have any questions you are welcome to contact momed@bric.ku.dk