What’s an extroverted biology PhD to do? Well, for Christine, the current answer is to work as head of outreach for a software company!
About a year before finishing my PhD I started working part-time for Papers (the reference manager). It was a great job and I knew I had a good chance of staying on full-time after defending my thesis. Right before my defense, however, Papers was acquired by Springer SBM (now Springer Nature). I was still offered the full-time position . . . but on the condition that I move to London. We were working on uniting the team in one place, so it made sense, in the context of how my role had changed and evolved, that I should be based in the London office with the rest of the team. It took me all of a week to think about it, and in the end my answer was yes! I am still with Papers and have been living in London for about two years now.
Read Christine’s full Q & A over at my University Affairs blog.