FROM ACADEMIA TO INDUSTRY: Your Roadmap to Entry Roles in Life Sciences Companies
🔍 Curious about what happens to your research once it leaves the lab—and how you could be part of that journey?
During this event, designed for STEM academics (especially PhDs and Postdocs), you will:
- Discover how Life Science companies develop innovative products for labs like yours and what career opportunities this represents for STEM academics, especially PhDs and Post Docs
- Understand what is expected in the 5 entry roles that you can target: R&D, Product Management, Field Application Specialist, Marking and Sales
- Lean how to translate your academic lab experience into skills that are required in industry and make your application stand out for these 5 roles
🧑🏫 Meet the speaker
Daria Jacob holds a PhD in Life Sciences from Institut Pasteur and an MBA from HEC Paris, combining deep scientific expertise with business strategy. Over the past 10 years, she worked at leading Life Sciences companies - Tecan and Danaher - where she lead teams, launched innovative solutions, and built strategic partnerships with vendors and customers. She has firsthand experience in how this industry operates, what hiring managers look for, and how scientists can successfully transition from academia to industry.
📝 Program
- Presentation (30 min): Industry roadmap + the 5 entry roles explained
- Q&A (15 min): Bring your questions (roles, transitions, applications, interviews)
- CV Workshop + pizza (45 min): Hands-on session to adapt your CV for one of the 5 roles, using the learnings from the talk
✅ How to register
- Presentation + Q&A: open to everyone — register below
- CV Workshop (limited places): spots go to the first participants who email their CV to daria.jacob@careercatalystlab.com
Date/Time/Location:
📅 Friday, March 13th
⏰ 12h15
📍 In-person - room CFJ 28-01-01A