Next Wave examines training opportunities in the United Kingdom for technology-transfer professionals, particularly for those making a career transition from research to industry.
Right now, Italy has too many teachers, and the legislative situation is confused. But OECD predicts a teacher shortage in the coming years and, in the meantime, scientists who have already entered the profession are getting by.
Increasingly job ads like the one at left are targeting scientists in a broad range of fields, especially engineering, chemistry, and biotechnology. From newly minted Ph.D.s to established faculty, scientists are joining the ranks of patent agents, patent examiners, and technology transfer specialists—all careers that do not require law degrees. Those willing to go back to school to study law wil...
Ex-oceanographer Helen Wallace talks about her career transition to GeneWatch, an organisation that monitors developments in genetic technologies from a public interest viewpoint.
Rebeca de Nalda Minguez (pictured left), 34, has just started her first permanent position, as Cientifico Titular of the Spanish Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) Rocasolano Institute for Chemical Physics in Madrid. She was only 2 years into her 5-year Ramón y Cajal contract, a research position created by the Spanish government in 2001 to bridge postdoctoral and permanent po...
