GAUSS Career Impulse Session (7 February 2025, 14:00-15:30, ONLINE) with Dr. Ritu Chakrabarti (Scientific Editor at Cell Press): “Behind the Scenes: the saga of an interdisciplinary editor”
We’re happy to announce our first GAUSS Career Impulse Session in 2025, this time with Dr. Ritu Chakrabarti, Scientific Editor at Cell Press. In this session, Ritu will provide insights into her field of work, sharing her personal experiences and perspectives.
- Date: Friday, 7 February 2025
- Time: 14:00-15:30 (appr.)
- Location: online
- Registration: Please write a short e-mail to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de if you would like to attend.
About the speaker:
Ritu has been a Scientific Editor at Cell Press, since August 2019. She earned her PhD in Sensory and Motor Neuroscience from the University of Göttingen and later pursued a postdoctoral fellowship at the interface of Neuroscience and Structural Biology. With wide-ranging scientific interests, Ritu thrives on mentoring, finds adventure in scuba diving, and creates harmony as a professional Sitar player.
About the sessions:
Our Career Impulse Sessions offer a platform for interactive and informal exchange about career-related topics for PhD students and postdocs in the Life and Natural Sciences. By inviting PhD holders with different career paths, we would like to illustrate the broad range of potential careers for PhD students and postdocs and give inspiration for career choices.