Online Life Sciences Career Event

During the Life Sciences Career Event webinars, (young) alumni who work in different jobs at different organizations, will tell you more about their work. Get to know how it is like to work at a pharmaceutical company, at a non-profit organization or within academia. This webinar will start of with a short introduction, after which two alumni will give a presentation about their career and the choices they made. You have the possibility to ask all your questions beforehand or during the webinar by chat.

Programme

About Alba Fernandez-Andreu

I am from Andalucía, southern region of Spain. I have lived in Utrecht for more than 7 years. I studied Psychology in the University of Granada, and for the last year of the Bachelors I moved to the Netherlands with an Erasmus scholarship. After graduating, I entered the Neuroscience and Cognition program, and specialized in Experimental and Clinical Neuroscience. My internships took place in the UMC Utrecht, in the groups of Prof. Elly Hol at the Department of Translational Neuroscience, Dr. Cora Nijboer at the Laboratory of Neuroimmunology and Developmental Origins of Disease, and Dr. Janneke Zinkstok at the Department of Psychiatry and Brain Center.

I graduated from the masters right at the start of the covid pandemic, so I worked at the GGD as covid tester while I applied for other jobs. I got a great opportunity at PPD, a CRO now acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific as part of their clinical research group. I started by working in project assistant roles (namely Site Activation and Clinical Trial Coordinator) and I have recently been promoted to Clinical Research Associate (CRA). I am responsible for setting up, coordinating and supervising clinical studies in diverse therapeutic areas.

About Rosalien Jezeer

Rosalien works at Tropenbos International and is an expert in sustainable land development and local livelihoods in tropical rural regions, with special interests in agroforestry, agrocommodity production systems, and fire management in tropical landscapes. Her PhD research focused on the challenges and opportunities of reconciling local livelihoods and conservation of biodiversity and other ecosystem services in coffee agroforestry systems in Latin America. She leads the coordination of the Fire-smart landscape governance programme with project partners in Bolivia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Indonesia and Uganda, alongside TBI’s activities in the Green Livelihoods Alliance, and related work for the Working Landscape programme.