Shaping your research career - Engineering and TECH PhD students (2025)

Who: PhD students at the Technical Faculty of IT and Design and at the Faculty of Engineering and Science

When:  May 12 - 2025

Deadline: 08.05.2025

Duration: 1 full day

ECTS: 1

Max no. Of participants: 35

Course organizers: 

Course lectures: 

Place: Aalborg Campus – Kroghstræde 1 - Room: Mozart

A PhD degree  is not only an outstanding achievement, but also a springboard for future development. Many PhD students will pursue their career in other research and innovation environment like industry, NGOs, yhr public sector, as entrepreneurs and other various career paths. Today it is even more important than ever to take charge of your career and guide your PhD study in the direction of your next career move.

This one-day course will explore requirements of pursuing a career within academia and industry and most important provide you with valuable knowledge and inspiration in relation to planning your overall career. 

You will also have the possibility to start working on your own career plan and get feedback following the course.

. As part of these reflections, AAU PhD can offer career profile with 1:1 feedback. This profil will provide you with insight into your motivation, career pattern and other valuable reflections.

Tentative program:

9:00-9:30 Introduction to the course 

9:30-10:15 Kristian Østergaard -Career and PhD

10:15-10:30 Break

10:30-11:15 Presentations from Linda Nhu Laursen Associate Professor and Head of Research at AAU Design Lab, Professor Bent Thomsen at the Department of Computer Science and Assistant Professor Lasse Rohde from the Department of the Built Environment

11:15-12:00 Round table 1: Questions 

12:00-12:30 Lunch (included in the course)

12:30 - 13:00 Presentation from Nicolai Bæk Thomsen, Senior Manager Group AI Solutions and Services at Grundfos,  Miklas Strøm Kristoffersen, Manager ML & AI Salling Group & Bejmanin Støttrup, Quatitative Analyst - Centrica Energy

13:00-14:00 Round table 2: Questions 

14:00-14:30 Mads Bang, Director of Innovation, AAU Innovation. From Research to Business

14:30-14:45 Break

14:45-15:15 Exercise: Career Plan

15:15-15:30 Discussion and arranging potential individual sessions.