Theme Alternative Careers
Target audience (Early career) post-doctoral researchers and PhD candidates
Language English

General

On Tuesday January 14th, 2025 Young AGEM will be organizing their second event entitled: "Alternative Careers"!

Are you considering pursuing a career outside of academia?

Are you curious about the career options available beyond the academic world?

Would you like to know the pros and cons of a career path outside of academia?

Alternative careers: women thinking of different career options

Yes!?!

Then join the "Alternative Careers" event organized by Young AGEM and ask all your questions during the panel discussion with former academics who have transitioned to careers outside of academia.

Date: Tuesday, January 14th, 2025
Time: 17:30 - 20:30, including vegetarian walking dinner
Location: Volkshotel, Wibautstraat 150, 1091 GR Amsterdam

Program:
17:30: walk in
17:45: panel discussion
18:45: walking dinner

Alternative careers: guy standing for different colour doors

Speakers / Panel members:


Emmely de Vries, PhD

Emmely studied Biomedical Sciences at Utrecht University, followed by a master in Neuroscience and Cognition.
She wrote her PhD thesis on the effect of inflammation and fasting on thyroid hormone metabolism at the University of Amsterdam in the group of Prof. dr. Eric Fliers.
After a 3 year postdoc on the effects of food intake on the metabolism of medicines under the supervision of Anita Boelen en Hans Romijn, she left academia to pursue a career which was more placed on the interface of science and society.
Emmely has worked with the CBG-MEB as a clinical assessor since 2018, specialized in the assessment of rare metabolic disorders and endocrinology. Since the end of 2023 she is the Dutch member of the Committee for Advanced Therapies and as such contributes to the approval process of advanced therapeutics in the EU.

Emmely de Vries

    Date and Location

    Time From 17:30 to 20:30
    Start date Tuesday, January 14, 2025
    Location Volkshotel, Wibautstraat 150, 1091 GR Amsterdam
    Vegetarian walking dinner will be included!

    Costs and registration

    Participation is free of charge, but registration is required.

    Register here: Registration Young AGEM event: "Alternative Careers

    Deadline for registration is: December 18th, 12:00 hrs

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