March 2023

Welcome to KI Career Service Newsletter!

Hi,

Thank you to everyone who reads our newsletter. If you have any suggestions about information for the newsletter, please send your message to career-service@ki.se.

•	A PhD can take you anywhere!

A warm welcome to the new president Annika Östman Wernerson! And thanks to our former KI president, Ole Petter Ottersen.

•	Internship program by KI Career Service

The projects for PhD students are available on the webpage. However, projects for postdocs and early career researchers will be published soon. Please keep an eye on the webpage and upcoming updates. Thanks for your comprehension.

•	Career events - develop your skills

If you are PhD student, do not miss the opportunity to participate in the workshops: Academic productivity: Work smarter not harder/Work more effectively. We plan to run four workshops this year: two in Solna, one in Flemingsberg and one online.

Have a wonderful Spring!

KI Career Service

Career Events

March 6th

•	Workshop: Academic productivity: Work smarter not harder/Work more effectively. Registration required.

March 7th

•	Course: Training in Microsoft 365/Teams (in Swedish). This course is intended for those of you who would like an introduction to Microsoft 365 (former Office 365) and Microsoft Teams.
•	Webinar: Empowering Women in Research. Registration required. Organized by scientifyresearch.
•	Webinar: Higher Education, Gender and Equity: Making SDG 5 Part of University Strategy and Activities. Registration required. Organized by the International Association of Universities (IAU).

March 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.

March 10th

•	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.

March 13h

•	"Ask KI" - an evening for questions - Swedish event. Registration required.

March 14th

•	Workshop: Publish and share your data. Registration required.
•	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.

March 15th

•	Workshop: Publish with impact - Journal indexing and impact factors. Registration required.
•	International Staff meeting: Useful facts for international staff. Registration required.
•	Panel event: Networking and Career Growth in Biosciences & Biotechnology. Registration required. Organized by the UC Berkeley Extension's Biosciences Department.

March 16th

•	Seminar: Patenting AI and Blockchain innovations within the life science field. Registration required. Organized by Stockholm Science City.
•	Webinar: Medtech quality and regulatory compliance – the basics!. Registration required. Organized by SDS Life Science.

March 17th

•	Course: Training in PowerPoint (in Swedish). Registration required. This course is intended for those of you who would like to become more confident and efficient when working with PowerPoint.

March 20th

•	International Staff meeting: Information about SIFA Swedish language courses for academics 2023. Registration required.
•	Webinar: Starting a business in Sweden part 1 – business registration. Registration required. Organized by Skatteverket.

March 21st

•	Course: Excel special: Conditions (in ENGLISH). Registration required. This course is intended for those of you who would like to know more about conditions in Excel.
•	Webinar: Information meeting about grants within Development Research. Registration required. Organized bythe Swedish Research Council. During the seminar the subject area Development Research will be described and information on this year´s calls will be given. Most of the meeting will be set aside for questions about the calls.
•	Seminar: Karolinska Institutet och läkemedelsbolaget Janssen samarbetar för framtidens behandlingar. Registration required. Organized by Stockholm Science City.
•	Webinar: Getting funded with good grant writing. Registration required. Organized by scientifyresearch.
•	Webinar: Starting a business in Sweden part 2 – managing income and expenses. Registration required. Organized by Skatteverket.

March 22nd

•	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.

March 23rd

•	Workshop: Stress and Recovery at Work for Researchers. Registration required.
•	Workshop: Essential literature searching for your thesis or publication. Registration required.
•	Course: Training in Outlook (in Swedish). Registration required. This course is intended for those of you who would like to become more efficient when working with Outlook.

March 24th

•	Webinar: Starting a business in Sweden part 3 – managing VAT. Registration required. Organized by Skatteverket.

March 25th

•	Workshop: Make it Circular. Registration required. Organized by the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship (SSES).

March 29th

•	Seminar: New times, new taxes?. Registration required. Organized by the Swedish Confederation of Professional Associations (Saco).

March 31st

•	Workshop: Giving oral presentations. Registration required.

April 11th

•	Workshop: Grant Writing with Angelika Hofmann. Registration required. The workshop aims for PhD students and postdocs.

Special Highlights

Internship program by KI Career Service Spring 2023 - Mingle Event - 08 March

During this event, you will receive information about some of the projects available and the companies and organizations participating in this call. Moreover, you will have the opportunity to network and ask questions to the company representatives. Registration is required.

Wenner-Gren Foundations - Applications: spring scholarships 2023

- Travel grants, symposium grants, guest researcher grants and sabbatical grants. The last day to apply is 10 March.

Grant Writing for Postdocs and newly appointed PIs

Grants Office is happy to welcome you to a grant writing workshop, which will include advice and tips on how to find the right funding opportunity for your project and target the funding agency, as well as how to structure and write your application. Wednesday 22 March. Registration is required.

Seminar for upcoming Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships -Call 2023

This seminar is aimed at KI employees and KI associated researchers, as well as researchers who plan to apply with KI as host organization. Thursday 30 March. Registration is required.

Sweden International Talent Matchmaking

Are you an international student in Sweden looking to explore a new career?

The Sweden International Talent Matchmaking is a activity within the project Switch to Sweden, where the focus is on improving the match between international academic talent with requiting companies based in Sweden. Switch to Sweden is a three-year project run by Linköping Science Park and funded by Swedens innovation agency, Vinnova.

For more information, please visit Sweden International Talent Matchmaking - Linköping Science Park webpage. 30 March, 13:00-17:00. via Zoom.

Impact Cup 2023

Startup Competitions for students who have a business idea at an early stage. You can compete in 3 prize categories: Sustainable health, Sustainable environment and Sustainable society. For more information, please visit Drivhuset Stockholm webpage. The competition open 06 March.

The PAPERs podcast

The PAPERs (Professionals & Academics Parsing Educational Research) podcast is a weekly podcast produced by Unit for Teaching and learning at Karolinska Institutet.

For more information, please check the news KI produces new podcast on educational research and visit the podcast website The PAPERs podcast to find episodes and abstracts!

Career Reading suggestions

Forbes

•	Why Non-Linear Career Paths Are The Future

Nature

•	Academic employers seek research experience and teaching skills
•	AI writing tools could hand scientists the ‘gift of time’
•	Early morning university classes are associated with impaired sleep and academic performance
•	Six ways to grab your principal investigators’ attention by e-mail

Research Professional

•	Doctoral training ‘should be mutually productive’
•	Less experienced researchers less happy with MSCA support

Science

•	Burn, bridges, burn? Why scientists remain indebted to former bosses
•	How I learned to craft compelling scientific presentations—spurred by my ADHD
•	Retracting my paper was painful. But it helped me grow as a scientist
•	Students and postdocs deserve more
•	Women, Black researchers less likely to hold multiple NIH grants

Job Opportunities

•	(Ass) Director Scientific Affairs Doptelet - Sobi
•	Associate professor in Bioengineering - Linköping University
•	Associate Senior Lecturer in Vascular Biology - Uppsala University
•	Biostatistician - Karolinska Institutet
•	Biostatistician: Real-World Evidence (multiple locations) - IQVIA
•	Clinical Pharmacology Expert (Gothenburg) - AstraZeneca
•	Clinical Quality Manager (Stockholm) - Exoneural Network AB
•	Clinical Scientist, Cell Therapy (multiple locations) - Bristol Myers Squibb
•	Director Medical Affairs - Calliditas Therapeutics
•	Emerging Sciences & Technology Unit Scientist - Chiesi
•	“Excellence by Choice” Postdoctoral Programme in Life Science - Umeå University
•	External Lecturer for Neuroscience of Emotion Course (Summer 2023) - DIS Stockholm
•	Head of Open Science - Uppsala University
•	Internship (Brussels) - Universitetsalliansen Stockholm trio
•	Laboratory coordinator at the division of Psychology - Karolinska Institutet
•	Managing Director - EIT Health Spain
•	Medical Advisor Hematology - Amgen
•	Medical Director - Neurology (multiple locations) - IQVIA
•	Medical Science Manager NorBalt Oncology - Sobi
•	Medical Writers (Clinical Regulatory) – all levels (multiple locations) - Astrazeneca
•	Patentingenjör inom medicin- och hälsa - Karolinska Institutet
•	Pharmacovigilance Scientist, Physician - Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC)
•	Product Coordinating Manager - Xbrane Biopharma
•	Project Coordinator - Karolinska Institutet
•	Regulatory Affairs Operations Specialist - Anywhere in Europe - Chiesi
•	Scientific Officer Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control - European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)
•	Senior Lecturer in Internal Medicine combined with position as specialist physician at Södersjukhuset - Karolinska Institutet, KI SÖS
•	Sr. Medical Writer, Publications (EMEA) - Evidera (multiple locations) - Thermo Fisher Scientific
•	Senior Scientist – Cell Line Development for Gene Therapy Applications (Portugal) - Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (iBET)
•	Senior Scientist(s)/Scientist(s) – Viral Vector Process Development Applications (Portugal) - Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica (iBET)
•	Senior Research Specialist - Karolinska Institutet
•	VP of Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs - Elypta

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Content editor: Y. Vladimir Pabón-Martínez