10th From PhD to Job Market: 'Put your PhD to Work!'

Career management event organized by UGent, VUB, UA, UHasselt and KU Leuven

Your career is likely to take you outside the hallowed halls of academia. Exploring the non-academic realm is a vitalizing and thoroughly exhilarating process, but often causes a great deal of anxiety and nervousness. From PhD to Job Market will help you reduce your fears and increase your “real-life” successes.

Join us for a supercharged and future-forward conference on career paths and opportunities for PhDs in (bioscience) engineering and natural sciences with keynote lectures, PhD career stories and several labour market oriented workshops.

Places are limited! Do not miss your chance to register for this cutting edge doctoral conference!

Cluster

Career Management

Target group

PhD students in (bioscience) engineering and natural sciences from all Flemish universities (Ghent University, VUB, UAntwerp, KU Leuven and UHasselt)

Format

Plenary lectures, PechaKucha and workshops

Date

Thursday, 28 September 2017

Venue

ArcelorMittal Gent, John Kennedylaan 51, 9042 Gent

Meeting points for bus transfer to ArcelorMittal: Station Gent Dampoort or Station Gent-Sint-Pieters.

Programme

8:30-9:30	Bus transfer from Gent-Sint-Pieters train station and Gent-Dampoort train station to ArcelorMittal
9:30-10:00	Words of welcome by Prof Dr Frank Witlox, director Doctoral School of Natural Sciences (UGent) Dr Frederik Van De Velde, COO ArcelorMittal Gent
10:00-12:00	Plenary session chaired by Prof Dr Frank Witlox Keynote lecture by Dr An Steegen – imec – "The Power of a PhD" Keynote lecture by Dr Filip Van den Abeele – subseawolf – "From PhD to Innopreneur: Embrace Change!" PechaKucha presentations by Dr Ann De Boeck – ArcelorMittal Dr Kim Cao-Van – De Verdieping Dr Michiel Vandegehuchte – VLIZ Dr Pham Huy Hoang – Arcadis Dr Jasmien Put – Renson Dr Sarah Verschueren – MindBytes Dr Barbara Kerkaert – Milcobel
12:00-12:50	Lunch and networking
13:00-15:30	Workshops SPEED MEET: A quick way to explore job opportunities for PhD degree holders at ArcelorMittal 'Where do I fit into the world beyond academe?’ (Filip Bauwens & Marion Liberloo, Propel Engineer Career Services) 'You’re in the driver’s seat of your career' (Veroniek De Schamphelaere, Vlerick Business School) ‘A career in the EU institutions: opportunities, application process and useful tips' (Michiel Humblet, DG ECFIN – Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs) ‘"Welcome to the real world" – What is your role as PhD in R&D?’ (Damien Rogival, P&G & Robin Lefebvre, Grow2Excel) 'Serving the world – working for the UN' (Christophe Verhellen, UNRIC)
15:30-17:30	Site visit ArcelorMittal
17:30	Bus transfer to Gent-Sint-Pieters train station and Gent-Dampoort train station

Language

English

Number of participants

150

Credits

Contact your local Doctoral School coordinator

Evaluation criteria (doctoral training programme)

Full participation (plenary session in the morning, workshop in the afternoon)

Registration procedure

Preregister through https://webapps.ugent.be/eventManager/events/tenthfromphdtojobmarket

Registration fee

Free of charge. Please note that a fee of €100 will be charged for registered PhD candidates who fail to attend the conference (deadline for cancellations: Monday 25 September 2017, 9 am).