Excelling in Research: Role Models & Stories from the Field

Monday 10th April: 11.00-13.30
Chair: Jason Rutter

 

Being awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship is a prestigious achievement. It is an international recognition of the fellow's work and potential for contributing to scientific development. Receiving a Fellowship can have a profound effect on the career development of the fellow giving them a chance to experience new ideas, work practices and approaches to research.

Fellowships can also profoundly change the lives of fellows outside work. Mobility brings with it both the excitement and challenges of living with new cultures, meeting new people and a using a different language through which to socialise and do the routine business of everyday life. It can also mean changes for the family of the fellow whether they move with them or stay in the home country.

Through the experiences of several Marie Curie Fellows and a Nobel Laureate, this plenary session explores some of the ways in which the mobility and experience of new research teams has altered their career and life path and provide insight into some of the possible opportunities awaiting current fellows.

Nathalie Moncel is an economist currently working at the Centre d'études et de recherches sur les qualifications (CEREQ). She was a Marie Curie post-doctoral fellow at CRIC in the University of Manchester in 2001, and at EWERC, Manchester School of Management, UMIST during 2002.

Gadi Rothenberg received his PhD in Applied Chemistry from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was a Marie Curie fellow for two years at The University of York. He now is now Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam , where he heads the catalyst discovery team at the van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam . He is also director of Sorbisense, a Denmark-based company specialising in developing and manufacturing new products for environmental monitoring.

Vladimir Demidyuk works on heterogeneous catalysis and the application of plasma and photocatalysis to environmental pollution control. He began his research career at the Moscow State University and after working as a Visiting Researcher at Inha University , Inchon (Korea [2000-2005]) has taken up a Marie Curie Incoming International Fellowship at The University of Manchester.

Tim Hunt is a Principal Scientist at Cancer Research UK who received his PhD at the Department of Biochemistry at The University of Cambridge. As well as spending almost 30 years at Cambridge he has also spent time at The Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory. He won his Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in together with Lee Hartwell and Paul Nurse.