Career perspectives

As a biomedical engineer, you are versatile, internationally oriented, multidisciplinary (by definition) and therefore employable in many different positions: 

• R&D in industry
• PhD-student (university, research institution, industry)
• Engineer or Medical Physicist in a hospital
• “Regulatory Affairs Manager” in medical industry
• Government/public health
• Consultancy
• Notified bodies, Regulatory Affairs Managers,
• Health Insurance
• Any job requiring the analytical and organisational engineering skills (general consultancy jobs, top functions in administration, banking sector, ...)

snapshot of where some of our latest graduates are working:

• Mattias: Product solution engineer CT & SYNGO at Siemens Healthcare
• Celine: PhD student at CMST (Centre for Microsystems Technology)
• Benjamin: R&D future leaders programme associate at GlaxoSmithKline
• Maarten: doing an internship in UZ Gent to obtain a recognition for Medical Physicist
• Vincent: Production supervisor at Pfizer
• Simon: Master in General Management at Vlerick Business School
• Tessa: PhD in neuroscience at QBI (Queensland Brain Institute, Australia)
• Denise: Engineer at P&G
• Geert: Junior consultant at Alten Belgium, currently Project Engineer for Pfizer
• Joris: Medical Application Engineer at Materialise / Mobelife
• Arnout: First Line Manager at Volvo Group Belgium
• Jantina: Customer Service Specialist for Crystallization Systems at Technobis
• William: Technical consultant for cardiac heart rhythm management at Medtronic