Many students chose to enter a STEM field with the goal of obtaining skills in school that will carry them on a long and fulfilling career. Often, students find themselves entering the industrial job market with a potential disconnect after years of academic-minded graduate school, postdoctoral, and even junior faculty work. This talk will highlight the lessons learned during the presenter’s transition from a research professor to a R&D manager at a fast growing company, describing how her academic experience in a funding driven environment helped her maximize her contribution in a value driven industrial setting. This experience demonstrates how academic-based research experiences in colloidal science and nanotechnology fields can be readily translated and expanded into leading R&D efforts as well as supporting regulatory compliance, market expansion, and medical device pre-marketing authorization.

How does your academia experience support successful industrial career in colloidal science and nanotechnology?

2019 Fall National Meeting

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