Nuts and Bolts of an Academic Job Search

Date: 

Thursday, September 7, 2017, 2:00pm to 3:30pm

Location: 

TMEC Amphitheater, 2nd Floor, 260 Longwood Avenue

Please note: location is changed to TMEC Amphitheater

This event is sponsored by the DFCI Postdoc and Graduate Student Affairs Office.

Presenter: Ali Khademhosseini, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicine and Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard-MIT’s Division of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard Medical School and Associate Faculty at the Wyss Institute

“The Nuts and Bolts of Academic Job Search” outlines an effective search strategy and discusses important elements of the faculty application process. It covers topics including finding opportunities of interest, preparing a strong application, the role of your advisors, interviewing, negotiating, and how the increasingly competitive job market is changing the faculty search process.

Dr. Khademhosseini is developing micro and nano-scale technologies to control cellular behavior for tissue engineering and drug delivery applications. He has published over 220 peer papers and 160 abstracts. He received numerous awards including NSF CAREER, PECASE, ONR-YIP, Colburn, Y.C. Fung and IEEE EMBS and Nanotechnology awards. He received his PhD in Bioengineering from MIT, and MASc and BASc degrees from University of Toronto both in chemical engineering.

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