Roundtables
The NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials organizes regular roundtable discussions for its members over lunch to discuss family-work balance and career opportunities.
Next roundtable:
September 26, 2025
From Academia to Pharma: Navigating and Thriving in a Career Transition
Guest: Maiara Montanha, Bristol Mayers Squibb, USA
Previous meetings
| Date | Title | Guest | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04.07.2024 | Balancing family and work, from researcher to CEO | Dr. Nicole Kleger, Sallea, Switzerland | ||
| 08.04.2024 | Sharing experiences between the US and Switzerland: From equal opportunities to professional development | Prof. Emily Pentzer, Texas A&M University | ||
| 06.02.2024 | Male Professors’ and lecturers’ commitment to gender equality at Swiss universities and ETHs | Prof. Julia Nentwich, University of St Gallen, Switzerland | ||
| 05.12.2024 | Gender related microaggressions | |||
| 27.04.2023 | Combining a career with a family | |||
| 17.03.2023 | From physics to consulting. Pursuing your career and family plans | Dr. Rosa Poetes, McKinsey, Switzerland | ||
| 20.09.2022 | Women in Science: The importance of resilience | Prof. Nasim Annabi, UCLA | ||
| 03.06.2022 | My way to professorship | Prof. Yoan Simon, University of Southen Mississippi | ||
| 17.05.2022 | Towards the end of Phase II - What comes next after the PhD / postdoc? | |||
| 14.04.2022 | Diversity in academia, opportunities and pitfalls | Prof. Jasna Brujic, New York University | ||
| 12.02.2022 | How can it help me and how can I benefit best from it? | Prof. Karen Scrivener, Prof. Esther Amstad, Prof. Giulia Tagliabue, EPFL | ||
| 23.11.2021 | Continuation of the discussion on the documentary “Picture a scientist” – own experience and how to react | |||
| 01.06.2021 | Mentoring relationships: how to be a good supervisor (and supervisee) | Manuela Schicka, University of Fribourg | ||
| 30.03.2021 | Networking in Switzerland to advance your (academic) career | |||
| 10.11.2020 | Family-work balance | Prof. Monica Gotta, University of Geneva | ||
| 29.10.2020 | Career hurdles and stressful situations in academia – how to deal with them | Prof. Wanda Kukulski, University of Bern | ||
| 14.07.2020 | Self-confidence in Science – A gender bias | |||
| 26.05.2020 | Stress - coping with one’s own and other | Prof. Anna Fontcuberta, Prof. Sophia Haussener, Prof. Esther Amstad, EPFL | ||
| 27.04.2020 | Project management | |||
| 06.04.2020 | A career in academia: adventures, fun and lessons learned | Prof. Gisou van der Goot, Prof. Raffaella Buonsanti, Prof. Giulia Tagliabue, EPFL | ||
| 13.02.2020 | How can you be what you don‘t see? My experience | Prof. Katharina Maniura, Empa | ||
| 24.01.2020 | How to succeed in academia | Prof. Atac Imamoglu, ETHZ | ||
| 15.10.2019 | How to prepare for an interview in industry | Dr. Andrea Lehmann, Head External Manufacturing, Pharma/Biotech industry | ||
| 25.07.2019 | A roadmap for leaving your mark of success | Prof. Lashanda Korley, University of Delaware | ||
| 21.05.2019 | CVs for industry/academic positions, Part 2 | |||
| 09.05.2019 | Company networking lunch, a way to get ideas for life after EPFL and for your company internship | Romina Teixeira, Althea Araya (Avanade), Nathalie Barzilay, Jelena Vukajlovic-Plestina (Crédit Suisse), Christine Chichester (Firmenich) | ||
| 18.04.2019 | Combining a career with a family | Prof. Anna Fontcuberta, Prof. Véronique Michaud and Prof. Stéphanie Lacour, EPFL | ||
| 25.03.2019 | CVs for industry/academic positions | |||
| 05.03.2019 | Unconscious bias: Why should we know and care about it? | Prof. Anna Fontcuberta, EPFL | ||
| 23.10.2018 | Gender Equality in Academia – Myth and Reality | Prof. Claudia Bagni, University of Lausanne | ||
| 23.05.2018 | From squeezed states to squeezed cells: an unusual physics career | Prof. Monika Ritsch-Marte, Medical University of Innsbruck | ||
| 19.02.2018 | Negotiation skills | |||
| 27.11.2017 | What comes next after your PhD / postdoc? Is this compatible with family life? | |||
| 21.11.2017 | What is like to jump from the lab into an editor’s chair? | Dr. Claire Hansell, senior editor at Nature, London | ||
| 29.09.2017 | Postdoc.Mobility and PRIMA grants | |||
| 13.06.2017 | Unintentional bias | Dr. Christiane Löwe, Office for Gender Equality, University of Zurich | ||
| 24.04.2017 | Finalizing the thesis | |||
| 27.02.2017 | Presentation skills | |||
| 12.12.2016 | 2.5 Years of NCCR Bio-Inspired Materials - Feedback from students about activities offered by the center: what is good and what should be improved? | |||
| 24.10.2016 | Graphical design of figures | |||
| 28.08.2016 | How to write a research proposal | |||
| 26.04.2016 | Discussion on equal opportunities | Ms. Suzan G. LeVine (US Ambassador to Switzerland and Lichtenstein) and Mr. Eric LeVine | ||
| 22.02.2016 | How to make a good presentation | |||
| 14.12.2015 | Supervision of undergraduate and master students – tips and tricks | |||
| 20.10.2015 | Women lead differently - is this right? And what are the leadership qualities of the future? | Claudia Nussberger, Partner Heidrick & Struggles Switzerland | ||
| 11.08.2015 | How to develop ideas for a research proposal | |||
| 09.06.2015 | Project management | |||
| 21.04.2015 | Requirements for a postdoc position in Academia or Research – or how to improve your CV | Sylviane Brasey-Badoud, Agroscope Resources Unit RU / Corinne Jud, Agroscope Institute for Livestock Sciences ILS | ||
| 16.02.2015 | Career opportunities after a PhD degree | |||
| 15.12.2014 | (Women) academic career coaching and sharing experiences on how to combine work with family life |