The NaturalScience.Careers team: For scientists, by scientists
For our soft skills workshops for scientists, we have built a team of trainers who combine their science backgrounds with teaching and facilitation experiences.
Trainers with a science background
Together, we bring experiences from a wide range of STEM fields to the table: chemistry, biology, physics, medicine, computer science and mathematics. Having the same background as our course participants makes our workshops and talks very relatable and relevant for the professional life of scientists.
Our trainers live in Germany, the Netherlands, and the USA. We work with customers worldwide:Â
Dr. Karin Bodewits
Dr. Karin Bodewits is from the Netherlands, where she studied biology. After internships at Puleva Biotech in Spain and Unilever in China, she completed a PhD in biochemistry at the University of Edinburgh. In 2012, she founded the successful company NaturalScience.Careers, a provider of workshops and talks for natural- and life scientists. In this role, she became a book author, short-story writer, speaker and workshop leader, and published a wide range of career- and soft-skills-related articles in magazines such as Chemistry World and Naturejobs. She wrote the Career Fables for Science Careers.
k.bodewits@naturalscience.careers
Dr. Philipp Gramlich
Dr. Philipp Gramlich has studied and researched chemistry at five universities in Germany, Australia and Scotland. He gained industry experience, first at baseclick, a biotechnology start-up, and later at Eurofins Genomics as Team Leader, R&D, QC and Analytics, responsi-ble for up to 22 staff. Since 2016, he has focused on his work as co-founder of Natu-ralScience.Careers. He specialises in workshops and talks on career development, science communication and leadership. Since 2016, he has regularly written career columns for Nachrichten aus der Chemie. He set up the NGO Stichting Turfvrij with Karin, where the two are working to make a real-life impact through science communication.
p.gramlich@naturalscience.careers
Prof. Dr. Max von Delius
Prof. Dr. Max von Delius is a W3 Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Ulm. He has been a highly successful group leader since 2013. He has received funding from the DFG’s Emmy-Noether programme and an ERC Starting Grant. His research interests include the synthesis of functional organic materials and the investigation of complex chemical networks. As a young professor (born 1982), he is aware of the challenges young group leaders in the natural sciences face and addresses them in an interactive setting.
Dr. Lisa Steinhauser
Dr. Lisa Steinhauser brings extensive experience from four companies. She worked in pharma research, food analytics and analytical instruments for multinationals as well as SMEs. She held a variety of roles, from product manager and sales manager to team leader for nine colleagues in a pharma company. These experiences enrich her seminars and coaching on leadership and self-organisation.
Lisa studied chemistry at the University of Tübingen. During her PhD, she worked on the analysis of natural products and spent three months as a guest researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Dr. David Giltner
David Giltner, PhD, has spent more than twenty years developing cutting-edge photonics technologies into commercial products across optical communications, remote sensing, directed energy, and scientific instrumentation. In 2017, he founded TurningScience to provide training and support for scientists of all disciplines seeking to enter the private sector as employees, collaborators, or entrepreneurs.
David is the author of the books Turning Science into Things People Need and It’s a Game, Not a Formula, and is an internationally recognised speaker and mentor on technology commercialisation, product development, and career design. David holds a BS and a PhD in physics and holds seven patents in the fields of laser spectroscopy and optical communications.
Suzanne Dranaz
Susanne Dranaz is German and Turkish. Born and raised in Munich, Germany, she studied German and English languages, history, mathematics and computer science. During her studies, she led several development projects in Central America carried out by volunteer university students. After writing her diploma thesis in Oviedo, Spain, she joined an IT company, where she led software development projects for several industries in Germany and the UK.
Her experiences of differences in both company and national cultures increased her interest in peopleware. She became a soft skills trainer, moderator, mediator, and coach. For the last 20 years, she has been helping companies and teams, university students, and leaders to refine their communication and conflict resolution skills, reflect on their own cultural imprints and attitudes, and work successfully across differences and distance.
Prof. Dr. Sven Hendrix
Prof. Dr. Sven Hendrix worked in Berlin, Hamburg, London, Hamamatsu (Japan) and Boston (USA) as a medical doctor and researcher. After his habilitation at the Charité in Berlin in 2007, he became a full professor of anatomy and cell biology at Hasselt University in Belgium in 2008. As Director of the Doctoral School for Health & Life Sciences, he supports more than 100 PhD students and postdocs. As Vice Director of the BIOMED Institute, he supervises the career development of tenure-track professors, among other tasks.
Marloes ten Kate
Marloes ten Kate is a presentation coach and expert in science communication. She has trained hundreds of international scientists to get their story across in an effective, clear and appealing way. She specialises in storytelling skills for scientists. She worked as a science journalist and presenter on several science radio and television programmes in the Netherlands. At Lecture, a lecture company for academics, she guided speakers in crafting oral presentations for lay audiences.
Marloes has a bachelor’s degree in biology and graduated cum laude from the Dutch University of Groningen in Science Communication.
Dr. Johannes Richers
Dr. Johannes Richers holds a doctorate in chemistry and a master’s degree in science marketing. He is a guest lecturer at TU Berlin and TU Munich, delivering talks and seminars on visual science communication. He supports top-level scientists with his design work, e.g. for their cover pages.
Erik den Boer
Erik den Boer studied biology at Wageningen University for four years. He then became a film and television director specialising in making films and television programmes, mostly about nature and science. For about a decade, he has trained scientists to present themselves and their research in various visual formats, such as short films or clips. His workshops range from short, concrete formats like “Create an engaging social media film with your phone” to complete filmmaking courses.
Peter Kronenberg
Peter Kronenberg supports scientists of all stripes in their career and self-development by equipping them with the essential tools for career development inside and outside academia. He covers science communication, time- and career management, self-presentation, and networking in his workshops.
Peter studied Liberal Arts and Sciences before obtaining a business school degree. As a freelance speaker and diversity expert, he is committed to helping teams explore what drives diversity, equity, and inclusion in their organisations. He has also applied his online communication and marketing skills to support customers across sectors, including publishing, theatre, and art exhibitions.
Emanuele Antico
Dr. Emanuele Antico worked as a research chemist in four European laboratories and served as a PhD representative in the Max Planck Society. During this period, he contributed to several initiatives focused on mental health and the general well-being of PhD students and Postdocs. Moreover, during his studies at the University of Pisa, he advised other students facing personal and professional difficulties as a peer-to-peer tutor, a role for which he received training from professional psychologists at the university. He leveraged this expertise to develop detailed knowledge of stress management and sleep, which has been very useful to him in navigating the challenging times of his own PhD.