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The Barcelona Science Park (PCB) and the IRB Barcelona are holding a career opportunities event for students and young researchers on Thursday, December 3.
The event, which aims to give participants inspiration and insight into their career development, will be held from 9.15 am to 12 noon in the Antoni Caparrós Auditorium (Baldiri Reixac, 4). Admission is free, but due to limited capacity advanced, booking is required.
The invited speakers for this event are science professionals who have pursued diverse careers, including work in university laboratories, research management, technology transfer, communications, R+D entrepreneurship and private business. The professionals that will be giving the lectures are Agustí Alconada, European patent attorney at ABG patents; Ignasi Belda, CEO- Intelligent Pharma; Karim Benjoux, research programme manager at Marie Curie Actions (European Comission); Laia Crespo, investment manager at Ysios Capital Partners; Dani Jiménez, science communicator and CEO at Experimentalia; Maria del Mont Llosas, research and innovation deputy director of Barcelona Science Park and Elisabeth Pain, Science Careers contributing editor.
The session is structured in two parts. The first part runs from 9.30 am to 10.45 am and speakers will offer a brief overview of their career path, explaining what they do and what led them to choose this direction. Running from 10.45 am to 12 noon, the second part will offer a more informal environment in which a mid-morning snack will be served and each speaker will respond personally to any questions participants may have.
For further information and registration:
http://www.pcb.ub.cat/careerprogression/
About IRB Barcelona
The Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) pursues a society free of disease. To this end, it conducts multidisciplinary research of excellence to cure cancer and other diseases linked to ageing. It establishes technology transfer agreements with the pharmaceutical industry and major hospitals to bring research results closer to society, and organises a range of science outreach activities to engage the public in an open dialogue. IRB Barcelona is an international centre that hosts 400 researchers and more than 30 nationalities. Recognised as a Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence since 2011, IRB Barcelona is a CERCA centre and member of the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST).
