Welcome and Introduction

• Carsten P. Welsch
• Theun van Veen

Careers Perspective

• Alexis Nolan-Webster (Careers & Employability, University of Liverpool)

Day Start

• Theun van Veen

Activity in groups - Advanced Researcher Skills School

Entrepreneurial Skills

• Mohammed Belal (STFC)

Mohammed Belal is currently an Enterprise Fellow at STFC. Previously he was a Business Development Director and Co-Founder of Spin-Out Company MIRICO, a company that has developed a transformational technology for gas sensing. He will share his experience on what is required to take an idea to market and setup a spin-out company on the basis of setting up the company MIRICO.

Day Start

• Theun van Veen

Activity in groups - LIV.DAT Placement

Computing Skills

• Egidijus Kukstas

Research scientists are known for their poor software development practices, be it due to lack of formal training or differing objectives. This session will focus on addressing some of these issues by looking at examples of good and bad practice. We will look at the types of computing skills that help increase productivity during one's research career in academia but are also appealing to employers in industry

NSG Group

• Peter Lai

NVIDIA

• Paul Graham

Precision Medicine

• Kevin Garwood

LJMU UKRI FLF

• Sebastian Kamann

Procter & Gamble

• Androula Alekou

Security Services: MI5, MI6 and GCHQ

National Nuclear Laboratory

• Nick Smith