Sector: Startups – Research Careers

Career profiles: PhD Degree: Neuroscience Left academia after: 0-3 years postdoc Sector: Healthcare Sector: Startups

Cristiana Vagnoni

Horizons and Innovation Lead at ieso Digital Health

I really enjoy being challenged to think ambitiously and creatively about complex problems, learning from internal and external experts, integrating knowledge across sectors and seeing the impact of my work on a daily basis.

Career profiles: PhD Degree: Biochemistry Left academia after: 6+ years postdoc Sector: Diagnostics Sector: Startups

James Larkin

CEO and Founder at Oxomics

I’m getting to see the technology that I invented move from academia towards the clinic. The further I get down this process the more I can see the end result and it’s an exciting thing to observe.

Career profiles: PhD Degree: Spinal Research Sector: Consulting Sector: Startups

Sheen Gurrib

COO (and content creator on the side) at Undisclosed

Career profiles: PhD Degree: Physics Left academia after: PhD Sector: Startups

Daniel Herde

Data Scientist at causaLens

While academic work is very intellectually stimulating, I appreciated the more immediate impact that can be achieved by working in industry.