TAP (Talk After PhD) 28 Sep

Are you curious what the next academic career step could be? Would you like to be inspired about what road you can take after you finish your PhD? Then the TAPs are the place to be! After the presentations, there is room to have an informal talk with the speakers while drinking a beer.

  • What: TAP talk

  • When: Wednesday 28th of September 19:00 – 20:30

  • Where: Buckshot Café

  • Cost: free (including one drink)

  • Register here (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tap-talk-28-september-tickets-409912739037)

Jeroen Bleker is a data scientist at XPAR Vision, a high-tech sensor and robotics company for the global container glass and table ware industries. With a background in clinical physics, he did not take a standard path to becoming a data scientist. While his applied machine learning PhD at UMCG radiology was an excellent first step, it was certainly not sufficient to become a data scientist attractive for corporations. Nevertheless, his short career shows that it is never too late to do something different (even if one did not defend their thesis yet).

My name is Eliza Warszawik. I have background in organic, bio- and nano-, chemistry. I received Bachelor of Science in Engineering and Master of Science in Engineering at Warsaw University of Technology in Warsaw, Poland.  After an exchange programme at Chemistry Department at the University of Groningen, I joined a group of Prof. Andreas Herrmann at Polymer Chemistry and Bioengineering Department at the University of Groningen & Zernike Institute for Advance Materials to do a PhD. During that time, I worked on site-selective modification of aminoglycoside antibiotics for therapeutic and diagnostic applications. After my PhD I joined a group of Dr Patrick van Rijn at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at UMCG as a post-doc, where in collaboration with the company Kisuma Chemicals I was working on the development of novel hydrotalcite nanocarriers for drug delivery  Afterwards, I decided to continue my career in the pharmaceutical industry. Since April 2021 I have been working as a Manufacturing Systems Principle Investigator at ThermoFisher Scientific in Groningen. 

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