Presentation tools and career development for chemistry and bioscience students (2024)

Organizers:

Professor Morten M. Smedskjær, mos@bio.aau.dk

Professor Torsten Nygård Kristensen, tnk@bio.aau.dk

Lecturers :

Morten Mattrup Smedskjær, Torsten Nygård Kristensen, external speakers and participating PhD students

ECTS :

1.5

Time :

Friday March 15 at 10:00-14:00

Friday May 17 at 10:00-14:00

Friday September 20 at 10:00-14:00

Friday November 8 at 10:00-14:00

Place :

Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University (AAU), Fredrik Bajers Vej 7H, DK-9220 Aalborg, Denmark

Approx. No. of participants:

25 (AAU)

Registration Deadline :

23 February 2024

Description:

This PhD course focuses on developing your competences in presenting your research for fellow PhD students within bioscience and chemistry as well as lectures on career development and planning. The course includes a series of seminars where students will be presenting their PhD project orally in plenum in a way that makes it relevant and exciting for students that are not necessarily specialists in the field you are specialized in. For each presentation, there will be an ‘opponent’ student responsible for preparing questions and chairing the sessions. Further, we will have a poster session where students will be preparing and presenting a poster with feedback from attending PhD students and organizers. Again, focus will be on preparing a poster and a presentation that attempt to make the content understandable and of interest to researchers that are not specialists in your fields but at the same time does not compromise scientific excellency. Further, the course will include lectures by the organizers and external speakers on carrier planning and use of social media for research dissemination. This includes input on how to optimize chances to obtain grant money to continue in academia or get a relevant R&D job in industry after your PhD.

All students enrolled in a PhD program at the faculty of Engineering and Science are welcome, but the course is most relevant for students in the fields of bioscience and chemistry.

Important information concerning PhD courses: We have over some time experienced problems with no-show for both project and general courses. It has now reached a point where we are forced to take action. Therefore, the Doctoral School has decided to introduce a no-show fee of DKK 3000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start. This can hopefully also provide new students a chance to register for courses during the year. We look forward to your registrations.