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May 2023

 

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Career Events
May 5th
Course: Training in Word (in English). Registration required. This course is intended for those of you who would like to use smart functions and become more efficient when working with Word.
Webinar: Progress with implementation of NHS Genomic Medicine Service.Registration required.  Organized by Genomic Medicine Sweden (GMS)
Webinar: Regional Open Science Policy Implementation. Organized by the Global Young Academy.
May 8th
International Staff meeting:Useful facts for international staff. Welcome to this interactive online meeting with a short introduction to Swedish authorities and Q&A session. Registration required.
Webinar: Understanding the Swedish labour market. Organized by the University of Umeå in collaboration with the Swedish Public Employment Service. Registration required. Umeå Universitet is one of many EURAXESS Centres in Sweden. 
May 9th
Conference: Cancer, equality and EU:s Beating Cancer Plan.Registration required.
Workshop: How to verify your publications in the Bibliometric Verification Toolkit. Registration required.
Webinar: Collaboration with industry - What to keep in mind when drafting an agreement. Organized by KI Academia-Industry Network. Registration required (email: fadwa.benkessou@ki.se)
Lecture: KI South Distinguished Lecture Series: Martha Somerman. This lecture series will be IRL only. No registration needed.
May 10th
1:1 Meetings with KI Career Service for PhD students and researchers. Solna + online. Registration required.
Course: Excel - your best friend (in Swedish). Registration required. This course is intended for those of you who would like to become more efficient when working with Excel.
Alumni Lecture Series: Trauma Reports with Stefan Sjödin. Registration required.
Webinar: Bridging Theory and Practice in Preventing Occupational Burnout. Organized by the Researcher Mental Health Observatory (ReMO) - COST Action Researcher Mental Health. Registration required.
May 11th
Workshop: How to verify your publications in the Bibliometric Verification Toolkit. Registration required.
Course: Training in Outlook (in Swedish). Registration required.
Webinar: Engagement across cultures and trends: the benefits of 3D thinking. Organized by the Berlin School of Public Engagement and Open Science. Registration required.
May 13th
Event: KI Alumni Homecoming Day 2023. Registration required. In the spirit of collaboration, friendship, research and education, the KI Alumni Office will be hosting an Alumni Homecoming Day on May 13th 2023. We're building for the future and we hope that as many alumni as possible will be able to join us this year, as we establish what will surely become an annual alumni day at Karolinska Institutet. So please join us and be part of a diverse program with many opportunities to connect with KI again.
May 16th
Workshop: Strategic Workshop: Inclusion. Registration required. Organized by KI Innovations AB.
Networking event: Lunch & Learn with Potter Clarkson. No registration. Simply bring your lunch to the AWL Café, listen to an interesting talk and hang out with friends and colleagues from the community – AWL & KI Science Park bring dessert! Organized by A Working Lab (AWL) & KI Science Park.
May 17th
Introductory meeting for research staff: Support services for researchers 2023. Welcome all new researchers and doctoral students to a short introduction to support services for researchers at Karolinska Institutet!. Registration required.
Workshop: GoinGlobal - International job search tool - User training. Registration required. Goinglobal is a platform that contains information about jobs or internships around the globe. You can access the GoinGlobal platform by logging in with your KI credentials.
May 22nd
Webinar: New in Sweden– the population register and basic tax information. Registration required. Organized by Skatteverket.
May 23rd
Webinar: Women In Science and Education (WISE) - webinar with Annika Östman Wernerson. Registration required.
Course: Training in Microsoft 365/Teams (in English). Registration required. This course is intended for those of you who would like an introduction to Microsoft 365 (former Office 365) and Microsoft Teams.
May 24th
1:1 Meetings with KI Career Service for PhD students and researchers. Solna + online. Registration required.
Drop in workshop: Canvas/Padlet/Mentimeter.
Workshop: Finding sources for your half-time review, thesis or next publication. Registration required.
May 25th
Course: Training in PowerPoint (in English). Registration required. This course is intended for those of you who would like to become more confident and efficient when working with PowerPoint.
Webinar: Clinical evaluation and clinical investigation of medical devices. Organized by SDS Life Science. Registration required.
May 26th
Course: Excel special: Conditions (in Swedish). Registration required. This course is intended for those of you who would like to know more about conditions in Excel.
May 29th
Ethics seminar: ChatGPT and other generative AI - ethical considerations for KI. The seminar is held in Swedish but is filmed and subtitled afterwards in Swedish and English. Registration required.
June 2nd
Course: Excel - your best friend (in English). Registration required. This course is intended for those of you who would like to become more efficient when working with Excel.
June 7th
1:1 Meetings with KI Career Service for PhD students and researchers. Solna + online. Registration required.
Webinar: The New Biobank Act - What does it mean for you as Researcher?. Registration required.
Webinar: New in Sweden– the population register and basic tax information. Registration required. Organized by Skatteverket.
June 8th
Course: Training in Word (in Swedish). Registration required. This course is intended for those of you who would like to use smart functions and become more efficient when working with Word.
June 15th
Bootcamp: MSCA Postdocs 2023 - Session 1. Setting up the proposal according to award criteria. For those who apply with KI as Host Organization, KI Grants Office offers a workshop for proposal writing, the MSCA Postdoc fellowships Bootcamp. Registration required.
Special Highlights
Time to apply for doctoral courses

The course catalogue and vacancies for the autumn semester of 2023 will be open for application during the period 17 April to 15 May, 2023.

Are you an international talent living in Stockholm and want more information about how to launch your own business?

Stockholm Talent Meetup - Start a business and networking event

The event will give you valuable information and insights about how you can launch your own business in Stockholm, information about support that you can get as well as networking with other talents and organisations with similar interests. Registration is required. Date: May 11, 2023

KI:s Sustainability Day 2023

All students and staff are welcome to gain tools and fuel KI:s work for a sustainable future! Join us for the full day or a lecture of your interest. Vegan lunch is available for all who register by May 16th. Registration will open here shortly. For more information, please visit the event webpage.

Impact Challenge

Learn how to apply design thinking to solve health-related needs. You’ll have the opportunity to work on a pressing need in today’s society “how to increase physical activity among young people”. For more information, please visit the event webpage.

Stockholm Dual Career Network (SDCN) Academy: Program Unlock Sweden

A 5-week program where participants begin a personal and professional journey together! SDCN is a network for partners of international employees. For more information, please visit SDCN webpage.

NorDoc Summer School 2023

This years topic “Antibiotics according to a new generation”. The meeting is open to all interested – doctoral students, postdocs and faculty!. Registration required.

CodeRefinery Best Practices Workshop

Do you write code for your research? Do you manage data? This Workshop will not teach you to code, but all the “good practice skills” that are needed to write good maintainable software and achieve reproducible research. For more information, please visit EuroCC National Competence Centre Sweden (ENCCS) webpage.

2nd Conference of the Researcher Mental Health Observatory (ReMO 2023)

The conference will be a hybrid event with free online participation and in-person attendance. For more information, please visit Research Mental Health Observatory webpage and the event website on LinkedIn.

EIT Health Program ‘From Scientists to Innovators for Industry’ in 2023

The programme offers two tracks: the Full Programme and the Light Programme. Both tracks involve a three-month online learning programme. For more information, please visit EIT Health webpage.

Calls for applications
EMBL Sabbatical Visitor Fellowships

Calling for applications for funding from eligible external scientists in close collaboration with an EMBL hosting team/group leader for a sabbatical visit at one of EMBL’s six sites. For more information, please visit EMBL webpage.

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023

The MSCA 2023 Postdoctoral Fellowships is now open with the closing date on September 13th 2023. With the MSCA Postdoc Fellowships, you can either do a postdoc within Europe with a 2-year fellowship (European Fellowship) or outside Europe (2 years) with a mandatory 1-year return phase to Europe with the 3-year Global Fellowship. For more information, check the following web pages about the call. MSCA Postdoc Fellowships at KI - MSCA Postdocs Bootcamp 2023 - Information about the Postdoctoral Fellowships - Postdoctoral Fellowships – call 2023. For questions about the MSCA postdoc fellowships or Bootcamp, contact ying.zhao@ki.se

NeurotechEU opens a call for postdocs, predocs, students and teaching staff

NeurotechEU will support researchers (postdoc, predoc), students (all levels) and teaching staff in the partner institutions of the NeurotechEU. For more information, please visit Neurotech webpage.

Researcher blogs
Decentralized Science – should Science be crypto-fied?

Hazel Xiaohui Ang. Postdoctoral researcher.

 

 

Creative destruction of scientific funding – a DeSci approach

Hazel Xiaohui Ang. Postdoctoral researcher.

 

 

Data not shown – Scientific publishing is broken

Hazel Xiaohui Ang. Postdoctoral researcher.

 

 

Heart Disease in Women: We need to talk…

Melody Chemaly. Postdoctoral researcher.

 

 

Career Reading suggestions
Karolinska Institutet

The Student Health Centre is now Student Wellbeing Centre

What the new biobank act means for you as a researcher

Nature

Scientists with multiple NIH grants are overwhelmingly male and white

University of Oxford bans intimate relations between students and staff

Racial inequalities in journals highlighted in giant study

How I found a broader impact as a PhD student through podcasting

Why it’s worth making computational methods easy to use

Research Professional

EU asks for help to boost research management

Female researchers in Norway make publication progress

Swedish doctors lose out on research time, report shows

Women remain under-represented in Danish academia

Science

Ph.D. interrupted: Dealing with a life-threatening diagnosis

Combining teaching with research made me a better scientist

Your nonacademic career is not a consolation prize

How a great mentor taught me to help students through loss

Vinnova

Trender och utveckling av Sveriges life science-företag

Job Opportunities
Associate Director Psychometrics, Statistical Services (multiple locations) - IQVIA
Associate - Health Care (London) - Analysis Group
Clinical Study Manager - Sobi
Clinical Trial Coordinator - Thermo Fisher Scientific
CMC-Lead / Team lead - NEOGAP Therapeutics AB
Director of Regulatory Affairs - Calliditas Therapeutics
Education Cluster Project Manager - EIT Health
Emerging Sciences & Technology Unit Scientist - Chiesi
Global Regulatory Associate - Immedica
Global Regulatory Manager - Immedica
Head of Analytical Science & Technology - Sobi
Head of Strategic Development - Effective Altruism Sweden
Management Consultant opportunities (For PhD students and Postdocs fluent in Swedish interested in projects related to Healthcare and Life Science) - Lumell Associates AB
Patentombud - Bioteknik - Potter Clarkson
Postdoctoral Fellowships - The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
Postdoc Programme - AstraZeneca
Professor in Bioelectronic Medicine with focus on inflammation - Karolinska Institutet
Quality Assurance Manager - Immedica
Research coordinator - Karolinska Institutet
Research specialist in anti-retroviral compounds - Karolinska Institutet
Senior Data Scientist – Proteomics - R&D Department (Onsite Campus Solna) - Pelago Bioscience
(Senior Dir/Dir) Asset Development Team Lead (Home or Office-based) - IQVIA
Senior Lecturer in Optometry - Karolinska Institutet
The Novartis Innovation Postdoctoral Fellowship - Novartis
 

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