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Present team
Currently, the PhD Career Stories team consists of eight members Tina Persson, Amal El Nahhas, Marie Cleo Mahouva Massela, Tiago Braga, Natalia Stolyarchuk, Rui Cruz, Suzan Mansourian, and Jananee Muralidharan.
Location: Copenhagen Metropolitan
When I was a child, I wanted to become a running woman.
But then I pursued a PhD in Organic Chemistry.
Currently, I am running my own company Passage2Pro and love to host my 2 Podcasts The PhD career Coaching Podcast and PhD Career Stories.
Fun fact about me: I am a Classic Pilates Trainer and I have a home gym.
In PhD Career Stories, I am the Happy Founder surrounded by a great team.
Location: Aveiro, Portugal
When I was a child, I wanted to become a racing car driver.
But then I pursued a PhD in host/pathogen interactions.
Currently, I am running my own company.
Fun fact about me: I guess I’m a SpaceX nerd.
In PhD Career Stories I am a project manager.
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
When I was a child, I wanted to work with animals, in any way.
But then I pursued a PhD in Biochemistry, studying the role of proteoglycans in Mast cells.
Currently, I am scouting new job opportunities, after attending a Master in Marketing.
Fun fact about me: I collect turtle-related memorabilia
In PhD Career Stories, I am driving and developing the Marketing actions of the project.
Location: Leipzig, Germany
When I was a child, I wanted to become one day a surgeon, someday a movie actress, then another day a high profile taekwondo master.
But then I pursued a PhD in African Studies, studying social economy and politics.
Currently, I am writing my dissertation and looking to finish the PhD and concentrate on building a professional career or setting up my own enterprise.
Fun fact about me: I love watching movies and can spend days trying to find out how a movie was put together, where it was filmed, watch the behind the scenes and dream about how good of a movie director I could be.
In PhD Career Stories, I am a project driver, podcast publisher and help where I can in the team.
Location: Lund, Sweden
When I was a child, I wanted to become a pilot.
But then I pursued a PhD in Physics/Spectroscopy, studying light interaction with matter.
Currently, I am working as a technical sales support.
Random (fun?) fact about me: I complain even when I don’t have anything to complain about.
In PhD Career Stories, I am helping with the new website.
Location: Berlin, Germany
When I was a child, I wanted to become one day a hairdresser, another day a veterinarian.
But then I pursued a PhD in Physics, studying thin films of semiconductor materials at atomic resolution.
Currently, I am working as a science officer and communicator.
Fun fact about me: I perform Shakespeare on stage with my friends from an international theatre collective in Berlin.
In PhD Career Stories, I develop a marketing and outreach strategy, sometimes interview guests, and in general collaborate here and there.
Location: Lund, Sweden
When I was a child, I wanted to become one day a ballerina, another day a physician.
But then I pursued a PhD in biology.
Currently, I am working as a Postdoc researcher at Lund University.
Fun fact about me: I can easily laugh and make my friends/family laugh. I am a reliable babysitter.
In PhD Career Stories, I am a podcast publisher, helping in marketing activities, and planning to interview some of our guests.
Location: Reus, Spain
When I was a child, I wanted to run a food business or be around food all the time.
But then I pursued a PhD in Nutrition and Metabolism.
Currently, I’m towards the end of my PhD and looking for new opportunities to work with food or health-oriented industry.
Fun fact about me: I think, I have a thing for learning new languages.
In PhD Career Stories, I am helping with the categorization of the podcasts to have better visibility and ease of access.
PhD Career Stories Alumni
Past members of PhD Career Stories include Michele Manzo, Maria Sjögren, Paulius Mikulskis, Johanna Havemann, Karin Martinsson, Alice Corani, Anna Westerlund and Olesia Snezhkova.
