The Career Talkshow: My path after PhD

StrasAIR presents “The Career Talkshow: My path after PhD”. This event was created to give Ph. D. students a broader view of their career possibilities after their Ph. D. It will consist of a dynamic interview format with two young Ph. D. alumni from the University of Strasbourg. The interview will be based on their professional story, talking about how they were recruited for their current positions, and how they leveraged their Ph. D. diplomas to get their jobs, among related topics.

The interview will take 1h30, where the first hour will be dedicated to the interview/presentation and the last 30 minutes will be dedicated to a Q&A session with the attendees. This event is planned as the live webinar with Dr. Farouk Allouche (maître de conférences in Biotechnology at Université Catholique de Lille) and with Dr. Youssef Zaiter (economiste des ressources naturelles at ACTeon Environment) on 28th January at 18h30 until 20h.

About our guests:

Farouk Allouche is a French-Lebanese assistant professor in Biotechnology at the Catholic University of Lille. After graduating in Genetics from the University of Bordeaux, he joined the University of Strasbourg and prepared his PhD in immunology at the IBMC, where he showed a particular interest in international collaborations and exchange. Hence, he created and chaired in 2015 StrasAIR in order to advocate for science and education and enhance more international collaborations, he is also active in several NGOs and international NGOs including Eurodoc that he represented at the Council of Europe and the European Parliament. He is also the president of the Gender Equality task force of the Conference of INGOs of the Council of Europe and the co-coordinator of the Lifelong learning working group. His interest for international relations led him to coordinate the international master exchange program in immunology at the University of Strasbourg before joining the Catholic University of Lille where he is also in charge of international relations for science at his faculty.

Youssef Zaiter obtained his Ph. D. in Economics at the Ecole Nationale du Génie de l’Eau et de l’Environnement de Strasbourg in 2020, which focused on optimizing the water quality monitoring networks by maximizing the economic value of information. During his Ph. D. he lectured courses on probability, statistics, data analysis, and introduction to R. Holder of a Bachelor’s degree in Management (Holy Spirit University of Kaslik) and a Master’s in environmental economics (Université de Bordeaux), Youssef joined the ACTeon Environment company as a natural resources economist right after his PhD. ACTeon is a French consulting and research company specialized in environmental strategies and policies. The main objective of the team is to foster emerging solutions and innovations aiming at ensuring an effective integration of environmental dimensions in decisions and behaviors.

This event is validated for transversal hours for the following doctoral schools (so far): ED414, ED222, ED269, ED520. A certificate will be provided for validation of such hours.

When: January 28th, 18h30-20h
Where: Big Marker Platform (check out our attached poster!)
Register here!

Grab a cup of coffee and come chat with us next week!