Career discovery: NGO/IO Olivier Menzel, Chairman and Founder, Blackswan Foundation
jeudi 30 nov 2017
2017 Symposium on “Careers in Science, Academia and beyond”
1Career discovery: Academia
11:22
2Career discovery: Academia15:55
3Toolkits: Building a strategy for a job search on the academic track18:28
4Career Discovery: Science administration14:33
5Career Discovery: Science administration15:21
6Career Discovery: Entrepreneurship09:01
7Career Discovery: Industry19:54
8Toolkits: Building a strategy for a job search outside academia17:19
9Career Discovery: Entrepreneurship17:08
10Career Discovery: Industry20:38
11Toolkits: Starting a professional career in industry: Matching market needs in the...41:16
12Career Discovery: Education20:53
13Career Discovery: Science publishing26:34
14Career Discovery: Science publishing18:51
15Toolkits: Emotions in Science25:32
16Career discovery: NGO/IO17:01
17Career discovery: NGO/IO17:30
18Toolkits: How to ace a job interview21:53
19Alternative careers17:19
20Toolkits: A quick guide to be a science communicator15:16
21Closing motivational talk: Focus on what you want!14:19
Dr Olivier Menzel graduated from the University of Geneva where he obtained a Master of Medical Genetics in 2001 and a PhD in 2006 from the University of Lausanne and EPFL at the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC). For seven years he directed the laboratory of pediatric surgery at the University Hospital of Geneva. In parallel he created the BLACKSWAN Foundation, a Swiss foundation to support research on rare and orphan diseases worldwide, organized an international scientific conferences (RE(ACT) Congress)and launched an online platform for sharing scientific knowledge and crowdfunding (RE(ACT) Community). In 2013 he obtained an Executive MBA from the HEC of Lausanne with a specialization in Management Healthcare. He acted as managing director of a company specialized in the identification, acquisition, development, marketing and sale of research programs for rare and orphan diseases and as director of the second largest group of private clinics in Switzerland. Now he is Managing Director at Think Rare Sàrl and fully involved in the BLACKSWAN Foundation activities.