• Graduate School DILS

    "Digital Infrastructure for the Life Sciences" — Graduate School of the Bielefeld Institute for Bioinformatics Infrastructure (BIBI) more about BIBI

    Model of DNA double helix in front of a student.
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Collection of questions/aspects that could/should be addressed

  • Academia or industry? What were/are your personal arguments for/against one or the other? Has the answer always been clear to you?
  • How did you find putative positions?
  • How did the application processes work? Did you have some counseling/mentoring? What was difficult or unexpected?
  • What next? Can you imagine to switch from academia to industry?
industrial track
  • What are the main or unexpected differences to academia?
professorships
  • How did the negotiations work? Did you have some counseling/mentoring? What was difficult or unexpected?
  • Was it difficult to set up a new group? Are you well settled in your new institute?