Researcher Pilar Ayuda-Durán is this episode’s guest. She tells us about how her adventure in Norway started 10 years ago with a short grant from Spain that got stretched with several funding opportunities. She is now working as a postdoctoral researcher in personalized medicine with projects at the Oslo University Hospital. She is also a founding member and President of the Spanish Researchers Association in Norway.
Listen to Pilar talking about her scientific path and get introduced to a broad scope of the outside-research activities. Learn how the association of researchers works, from where it gets its funding and how it effectively supports associated researchers with a variety of activities, including lobbying on political levels.
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9: Growth House and Innovation
Todays guest is biochemist and innovation adviser Beate Rygg Johnsen at UiO Growth House. With experience from innovation and development aspects in biotech companies, the pharmaceutical sector and in a medical device start-up, Beate brings us invaluable in-depth knowledge.
Learn about her path, her experiences and how UiO Growth House helps scientists develop their innovative ideas.
Scientia Fellows hosts are Andrea Fernandez and Mathias Busek. Enjoy!
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8: From industry to academia
Meet Fred-Johan Pettersen, professor at UiO, whose main interest is medical technology and electronics, with a special focus on sensors. With the background in microelectronics and experience in electronic industry, he transitioned to Department of Physics, UiO and Oslo University Hospital. Follow the interesting career path ‘from industry to academia’, learning more about the world of sensors and their applications in medicine.
Andrea and Gina are the episode’s hosts.
Enjoy!
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7: Musician and scientist
Is there anything like a typical research career path? If so, this does not apply to our guest Steven Ray Willson. He is both a musician and a scientist, a professor in analytical chemistry. What is more, he is truly passionate about and active on both fields.
In his conversation with podcast hosts Mathias and Gina, Steven explains how these two professional paths complement each other. As a committed educator he also shares practical advice for young researchers.
Enjoy!
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6: The sensor girl
Gina, our new host of The Scientia Podcast, shares her experiences living and working in labs across Europe, and her Scientia project on using electrochemical sensors to test cells prior to eye transplantation. In this episode you learn also what tongue has to do with electrochemical sensors and the team, with Andrea and Mathias, discusses the challenges and rewards of working in multidisciplinary teams. Listen to this episode to hear Gina's story and learn about the exciting project.
The Scientia podcast discusses health, life sciences, curiosity and what it’s like to live and work in a foreign country.
An international group of young researchers invite a guest scientist to participate in each episode. How did they get to where they are, what is their field of research and what motivates them? Topics cover molecular medicine, our immune system, microbiology informatics, AI (artificial intelligence), cancer research, neurology and several more.
The group of researchers is funded by the Scientia Fellows programme hosted by the University of Oslo, Norway, and cofunded by EU Horizon 2020.
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