FCP: Business 2020 ­Video Portraits

Many academics aim for a career outside academia but are often unaware of the variety of career opportunities and the plethora of companies that might be suitable for them. Besides, there is often uncertainty about how to make the transition from an academic career to the business world.

Our project

Therefore, we, the participants of the Future Career Program: Business of the Graduate Academy of the TU Dresden, have set ourselves the task of shedding light on various career paths for academics. We interviewed four academics who have chosen a non-university career in video portraits about their entry into the non-university working environment and their everyday working life. Also, interested doctoral students had the opportunity to ask the speakers questions in advance.
 

The Video Portraits

Dr. rer. nat. Sebastian Melzer
Senior Consultant | SQL Projekt AG

Dr. med. Juliane Putz
Oberärtzin | Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus Dresden

Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Schellhammer
Koordinator des Verbindungsbüros Lehrerbildung | Zentrum für Lehrerbildung, Schul- und Berufsbildungsforschung (ZLSB)

Dr.-Ing. Sophie Zorn
Product Owner Robot Integration |
Wandelbots GmbH

The Project Team

The project was carried out by a team of eight doctoral students from various disciplines:

• Dimitri Eigel, chemist
• Bettina Keperscha, chemist
• Tim Kühne, physicist
• Robin Liebfried, electrical engineer
• Wenke Markgraf, chemist
• Stefanie Moritz, biologist/biomedical scientist
• Anne Seifert, neurobiologist/biomedical scientist
• Sebastian Wilbrecht, mechanical engineer

Acknowledgment

The project would not have been possible to this extent without the support of Ms. Böhm ( GA, Career Development), Mr. Goepfert (conducting the interviews), the TU Dresden social media team, the students of the TU Dresden, and our speakers.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank them sincerely.