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New Seminar Series – Career Paths Series (CaPS)

By UPS Alumnus May 10, 2021CaPS, Events, NewsNo Comments

Have you ever wondered what options you have after your PostDoc? Should you stay in science, or should you change to industry, or something totally different? And how should you go about it? With our new seminar series “CaPS”, we want to give insights into the various options we have…

Umeå Postdocs: Sign up for a Grant Writing Workshop

By UPS Alumnus April 27, 2021NewsNo Comments

Dear Umeå Postdocs! We are currently collecting your Email addresses for a Grant Writing Workshop organised by the Umeå University Research Support Office (RSO).Please fill out the short form (here) - we will forward the collected addresses to the RSO and they will contact you directly. Please sign in until…

Event Review: Funding Sources for PostDocs

By UPS Alumnus March 16, 2021Events, NewsNo Comments

On 12th March 2021, UPS and Umeå University Research Support Office (RSO) joined forces and we hosted our first Career Development Seminar. Acquisition of funding for your own position and scientific projects is an important and essential part of the academic career path. To learn more about this, we invited…

UCMR Day – Review

By UPS Alumnus February 4, 2021NewsNo Comments

This year’s UCMR day kicked off early morning on the 14th of January, with keynotespeakers Stephan Pöhlmann and last year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry recipientEmmanuel Charpentier. All round the scientific talks and posters presented at thismeeting reflected the high scientific standard of research performed here at UmeåUniversity. We are happy…

KBC days – review

By UPS Alumnus November 9, 2020NewsNo Comments

This year we had a slot at the KBC days (whole program here) for the first time. We started with "Umeå Postdoc Society: What the heck is that". Here, we presented us as a new society, who we are, how we work and what ideas we have. We were really…