A world full of opportunities: What career paths for neuroscientists? |Special Symposium at the FRM 2023

Organiser: FENS

Attendance type(s): In Person

Event Dates: 5 May 2023

This Special Event is dedicated to students and early career scientists attending the FENS Regional Meeting 2023 (FRM2023) that are interested in interacting with inspiring representatives from business, pharma, education, and publishing sectors.

During this event, the speakers will reveal how their background in neuroscience successfully contributed to their career paths through short talks and meeting sessions.

  • Chair: Dr Dirk Schubert, (The Netherlands), Member of the FENS Committee on Higher Education and Training (CHET), RadboudUMC Nijmegen.
  • Speakers:
    • Dr Britt Mossink, (The Netherlands), Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies. Healthcare Pioneer Neurology at Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson.
    • Dr Clara Garcia Gorro (UK), AbbVie. Content Creator on YouTube (Public outreach), Podcaster and former associate medical writer at Springer-Nature Publishing and freelancer consultant research associate.
    • Eidan Tzdaka, (Norway), Co-Founder of Drowzee, Master in Comp. Neuroscience at ESPCI and master’s in biomedical engineering at the University of Paris. Tzdaka is now CTO & Computational Neuroscientist at Drowzee, Oslo (Norway) and a former Signal Processing Algorithm Developer in France and Israel.
    • Dr Alessandra Ferrari (Belgium) Team Leader at European Research Council (ERC). ERC Team Leader LS and Scientific Panel Coordinator (LS9) for Biotechnology in Brussels (BEL). Former Associate Editor at Springer-Nature publishing and Policy Officer – Science and Ethics Biology of the European Commission.

This special event is organised as part of the FENS Regional Meeting 2023.

Organised by the FENS Committee for Higher Education and Training (CHET)

Contact Details

Name: Committee for Higher Education and Training (CHET)

Email: chet@fens.org

URL: https://fensrm2023algarve.pt/special-symposia/