Sometimes we hear of a mythical “right way” to progress through academia: a PhD, one or two postdocs and then your own group. We really want to highlight that there is no such thing. Careers are like rivers; they twist and turn, meandering across the metaphorical academic landscape. Here you’ll find a collection of career timelines from academia from real people with unique journeys. Hopefully, these will encourage and inspire you. If you would like to share your career timeline please do get in touch.
- Christine Holt, Professor of Developmental Neuroscience, University of Cambridge
- Iwo Kucinski, Postdoc, University of Cambridge
- Sally Lowell, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh
- Ottoline Leyser, Director of the Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge
- Lars Østergaard, Professor, John Innes Centre
- Christiana Ruhrberg, Professor of Neuronal and Vascular Development, University College London
- Amanda Sferruzzi Perri, Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow, University of Cambridge
- Kate Storey, Professor of Neural Development, University of Dundee
- Abigail Tucker, Professor, King’s College London
- Michelle Ware, Postdoc, University of Cambridge
- Helen Weavers, Sir Henry Dale Fellow, University of Bristol
- Richard Wingate, Reader in Developmental Neurobiology, King’s College London