Episode 26. Amanda Song recently completed her PhD in Cognitive Science at UC San Diego. She studied at Fudan University and has done internships at Qualcomm, Tesla, TuSimple, and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. Since we recorded the podcast, Amanda defended her dissertation and started an internship at The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Congratulations Amanda!

James Tamerius: Senior Research Advisor at Center for Sustainable Energy This week’s guest, James Tamerius, has hardly had a linear career path. “I’ve never been really good at planning life decisions,” he admits to Nick. “I always just kind of let it happen.” Rather than constructing his future rigidly, James focuses on answering the problems…

Episode 24. Erin Calipari is an Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University. Erin completed her PhD at Wake Forest, a postdoc at Mount Sinai, and her undergrad at University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Episode 23. Siddharth Krishnan is a postdoc at MIT and co-founder at Rhaeos. He did his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and completed his undergrad at Washington University in St. Louis.

Episode 22. Caroline Sferrazza works in science communication and is a co-producer of the Once a Scientist podcast. Caroline earned a masters degree in neuroscience from UC San Diego and did her undergrad at Vassar College.

Episode 21. Max Robinson is a postdoc in at MIT. He did his PhD in chemical engineering at Vanderbilt and his undergrad at Trinity University. Max also co-hosts the MIT GLiMPSE podcast.

Episode 20. Mike Fenn is the Director of Healthcare and Life Sciences at the Harvard Innovation Labs. Mike did his undergrad, PhD, and postdoc at University of Florida, where he also worked as a professor. He's started several companies and is an all-around startup guru.

Episode 19. Christopher Moore is a neuroscience professor at Brown University. He went to undergrad at Oberlin College, did a PhD at MIT and postdocs at Stanford and UCSF.

The complete Consulting 101 series is now available! In this conversational mini-series, Nick breaks down the process of landing a highly-competitive job at consulting firms like BCG, McKinsey, Bain, etc. He shares his own transition from a neuroscience postdoc to BCG consultant, and — most importantly — offers tangible advice on things like developing your…

Episode 18. Sharon Milgram is the Director of the Office of Intramural Training and Education (OITE) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Sharon is a former professor at UNC Chapel Hill and completed her PhD at Emory University.