Individual career development by Dr Mikael Syväjärvi (Sweden) and Dr Nasar Ali (UK)

Online via Zoom

The career for a young researcher is a challenging path. Everyone has their dreams. Life has its reality. One career is not similar to another even though they are in one and the same topic. We are individuals.

Everyone needs advices and feedback. Young researchers mainly have their families and friends, and in best case a mentor at the host organization. Those have some experience, but it is a great value to have broader views from various insights and experiences. In this Researcher Career Day we provide valuable feedback for young researchers careers.

The participants present their experience and career plan, and the future that is their dream. Dr Syväjärvi and Dr Ali will provide feedback using their professional experienced in research, education, supervision, networking, capacity building. The other participants will also have time to ask questions or suggest ideas. That will create an interaction which also opens the possibility to find common interests and grow your personal network. Career is to a large extent based on personal network. From that you make decision based on advices and feedback that you have got from others. That is the essential way to develop your career.

10 min presentation by participant

10 min feedback from Dr Syväjärvi and Dr Ali

10 min interaction with other participants

Chairs:

Dr Mikael Syväjärvi is a researcher in advanced materials since 1995, entrepreneur since 2005 with start-ups and technology transfer. He has experience from Swedish national innovation programmes and regional development in European context. He is active in training and courses for research to business, competence building for research and student careers, and sharing knowledge to the youth. He is Innovation advisor at Young Professionals Society (UK). He is also founder of Alminica AB that is active in innovation services, director at ICM Research Institute, Visiting Professor of Advanced Industrial Materials Innovation at University of Lincoln (UK), Research and Innovation Coordinator at Institute of Advanced Materials (SWE), and core member in International Association of Advanced Materials that has more than 83’000 members from 139 countries.

Dr Nasar Ali is a scientist, entrepreneur and a mentor. In 2019, Dr N Ali set up the Young Professionals Society (YPS) to help young people and professionals with personal and professional development (PPD). YPS focuses on three main areas: leadership, innovation, and communication. Within YPS, Dr Ali heads the Institute for Personal and Professional Development (IPPD) which is designed to provide training courses to mainly young people with soft skills and leadership development. Dr Ali chairs the international YPS Leaders Conference. Dr Ali is very passionate about empowering the youth with key life changing skills so that they can go on to achieve their goals and become the future global leaders in their own chosen fields and become the representatives on their communities.