Nordic Academic Meetup: Life as a Ph.D. - Navigating your career

Nordic Innovation House-Silicon Valley is all about collaboration and building bridges. We bring together the most passionate entrepreneurs, and corporations and investors looking into finding new innovative solutions, and researchers working on building better societies.

Join us for the Nordic Academic Meetup! The evening will start with a short introduction from the host and partners and will include a panel discussion on the topic. Get inspiration and information for Ph.D. students and postdocs. Please join discussions on different career paths, combining work in academia and industry.

We close the evening with drinks and snacks.

AGENDA:

5:30 pm House opens

6:00 pm Welcome Words and introductions

• Nordic Innovation House: Åsa Wallin, Ph.D., Director, Future Precision Health
• Nordic Academic Meetup: Matt Aistrich, DBA, Senior Advisor, Business Finland

Short presentations by the panelist followed by a panel discussion on the topic Life as a Ph.D. - Navigating your career after the doctorate. Panelists includes:

• Rimvydas Baltaduonis, Ph.D., Project Scientist, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
• Kari Pulli, Ph.D., Director of Compute SW, Google
• Wiebke Struckmann, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford Brain Stimulation Lab, Stanford

Further panelists to be announced

7:00-8:00 pm Networking

This event is hosted by Nordic Innovation House in collaboration with Business Finland, Vinnova, Linköping University and InnoHub Lithuania.

Host or Publisher Nordic Innovation House