Career Thoughts Over Coffee

Career Thoughts Over Coffee

By Dr. Akram Al-WahabiBusinessCareers
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Career Thoughts Over Coffee episodes

  • 011 Dr. Rodi Abdalkader - Research with magic cells (iPSCs)

    Today our guest is Dr. Rodi Abdulkader  He graduated from Damascus University, College of Pharmacy, and then moved to Japan to get his Master's and Ph.D. from Kyoto University, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Japan. Now, he is an assistant professor at Ritsumeikan University after working at Kyoto University as an assistant professor, too. He has great experience in both the academic field as well as the industry where he worked as a research scientist with Rhoto Pharmaceuticals.  He will share with us his experience doing research and his insight about changing the process of working with a different topic of research than the one might be used to.  

    Dr. Rodi Abdulkader LinkedIn: 

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodi-abdalkader-920a6186/

    51 min
  • 009 Dr. Sari Jammo - The origins of funeral rituals and the importance of anthropology

    Dr. Sari is an anthropologist who graduated from the University of Aleppo and then moved to Japan to get his Master's and Ph.D. from the University of Tsukuba in Japan. Now, he is doing his 2nd postdoc at the University of Tsukuba after finishing his first postdoc at the University of Tokyo. In today's episode, we go through a lot of interesting subjects that revolve around anthropology and its relation to our current time, some practices that our ancestors used to make, and some interesting findings of some of the things we use on a daily bases. 

    The Mishima Kaiun Memorial Foundation. The application is only in Japanese. https://www.mishima-kaiun.or.jp/  

    The manga and other booklets can be downloaded from Sari's academic.edu page https://tsukuba.academia.edu/SariJammo

    58 min
  • 008 Dr. Nezar Al-Hebshi - Humans having more micro organisms than cells/ research life: Yemen to US
    Hello everyone, today's guest on the ScienDist podcast is Dr. Nezar Al Hebshi.
    Dr. Nezar is a dentist; he graduated from the University of Science and Technology in Yemen in 1999 and got his Ph.D. from Bergen University in Norway in 2005. He is now the Co-director of the Oral Microbiome Research Laboratory; and an associate professor at Temple University's Kornberg School of Dentistry in Pennsylvania.
    In today's episode, he will share with us information about the exciting research he is doing and some of the challenges he faced during the different stages of his career. As a faculty member, he shares valuable information about what is expected of Ph.D. students and postdocs when they apply for positions and the things that could increase their chances of being accepted into these postgraduate programs.
    Contact:
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nezar-al-hebshi-048b8a3a/
    1 hr 10 min
  • 007 Maha Mahyub - Helping find broken machines and a different perspective on post graduate studies

    Hi guys, today I am interviewing Ms. Maha Mahyub

    Maha is a Ph.D. student at Tsukuba University in Japan and she is a part-time employee at AIST

    She did her bachelors in Jordan from the University of Petra and she has very unique ideas and a different perspective on how to proceed with post-graduate studies, so I encourage you to listen to the podcast to the end.

    Maha's contact:

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maha-mahyub-380595141/

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mikoindaahouse/

    38 min
  • 005 Dr. Bektur Ryskeldiev - Science fiction related research and human cyborgs technology

    Today I interviewed Dr. Bektur Ryskeldiev and we talked about his passion for mechanical keyboards, human Cyborgs, and doing research that is inspired by science fiction.


    Today's episode links:

    Youtube: https://youtu.be/IIJ3cfqifek

    Podcasts:   @ScienDist

    Dr. Bektur Ryskeldiev contacts

    https://apolotary.com/

    Insta: @apolotary

    Twitter: @rbektour


    Wikipedia links to things we mentioned in the podcast:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainport

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmetropolitan

    1 hr 9 min
  • 003 SciComm Sunday - Mental Health and Burnout

    In today's episode, we will check an article that I saw on Dr. Bicuspid that discusses mental Health and Burnout which are very crucial subjects and are experienced by everyone not just in Academia. So, Subscribe and follow if you haven't already and let's get to the podcast!

    Burnout article on drbicuspid.com

    https://www.drbicuspid.com/index.aspx?sec=sup&sub=pmt&pag=dis&ItemID=328376&wf=3372

    Article in JADA

    https://jada.ada.org/article/S0002-8177(21)00132-X/fulltext

    Mental Health support websites:

    Japan:

    https://telljp.com/

    US:

    https://www.mentalhealth.gov/get-help/immediate-help



    To contact me, Instagram @the.sciendist Twitter @ScienDist

    19 min

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Career Thoughts Over Coffee is a podcast about how people actually build careers—across science, academia, industry, media, and entrepreneurship.