VR & FORMAS grants seminar by RSO UmU

VR & FORMAS grants seminar by RSO UmU

October 1, 2021Posted inEvents, NewsNo Comments
The Research Support Office invites you to an online seminar with focus on the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet/VR) and Formas During the seminar, we will go through what these funders stand for and how you as applicant need to think and write in order to be successful. We will further…
CaPS #4 – Jobs in Industry

CaPS #4 – Jobs in Industry

September 28, 2021Posted inCaPS, Events, NewsNo Comments
For our upcoming Career Paths Series (CaPS) seminar, we are very excited to cover the topic of “Jobs in Industry”. We will start this with Maria Genua, a Biotechnology Sales and Tech Transfer manager at GAIKER Technology Centre in Spain, who will tell us about her journey to her current role.   The event is…

CaPS #3 – Scientific Management

August 23, 2021Posted inCaPS, Events, NewsNo Comments
The Career Paths for PostDocs Series (CaPS) is back from the summer break and we are excited that this time we will cover Scientific Management. For our third Career Paths Series event, we will change our format a bit and have a round-table discussion with 4 guests, who cover different…

CAPS #2 – Scientific Editor

August 9, 2021Posted inCaPS, Events, NewsNo Comments
For our second seminar in the series about Career Paths for PostDocs (CaPS), we invited Dr. Anna Kriebs from Nature Communications to portrait her job as a Scientific Editor. She joined Nature Communications after completing her PhD in 2018.  Anna gave us some insights on her motivation and considerations before applying to the job and explained the application process. She portrayed…

UPS Online Game Evening 26th May

May 19, 2021Posted inEvents, NewsNo Comments
Our next online after-work entertainment features an online card game called “All bad cards”.  Fans of the hardware version known as “Cards against Humanity” will be well entertained.  For those of you that do not know this format, should be prepared for a highly offensive and politically incorrect sentence building game.   This grotesquerie has of course high laughter potential and additionally you may learn…