Empowering You to Be a Mentor & Find Mentorship
Are you a junior scientist searching for mentorship guidance? Maybe you are looking for the inspiration and motivation to be a mentor!
From the spring through the fall of 2024, the DDEA invites you to tune in to the DDEA Webinar Series on Mentoring and Career Development.
As a postdoc, assistant professor, or PhD student, being a mentor and obtaining mentorship is crucial for advancing your career. But navigating the vast landscape of social norms can be challenging and the time commitment can be high.
The Mentoring and Career Development webinar series guides you through different aspects mentorship: From the importance of being a mentor, to having your own mentor. We will shed a light on what mentorship is, the skills required to develop strong mentor mentee relationships, and how to identify mentoring opportunities. We will hear from experts working in the field alongside be inspired by the success stories of our peers.
The webinars will cover the following topics on the days and at the times indicated:
TIME: 14:00-14:45
The Value in Mentorship – Two Sides of a Coin: Why Become a Mentor? Why Have a Mentor?
TIME: 14:00-14:45
What is Mentorship?
TIME: 14:00-14:45
The Mentor-Mentee Relationship
TIME: 14:00-14:45
Crafting and Applying your Mentorship Philosophy
TIME: 14:00-14:45
Mentorship Progression & the Diversity of Mentorship
TIME: 14:00-14:45
I am Ready Now! How Do I Identify a Mentor?
There will be time for questions and answers after each talk.
You can sign up for individual webinars. You do not need to attend them all.
This event takes place online, using Zoom videoconferencing. The Zoom link will be shared with you the day before each webinar.
Annika Hausmann, Postdoc, University of Copenhagen (DK)
Annika Hausmann joined the group of Kim B. Jensen at reNEW – NNF Center for Stem Cell Medicine, DK as a Postdoc in 2021 upon completion of her PhD at ETH Zurich, CH with Wolf-Dietrich Hardt in mucosal immunology and host-microbe interactions. She currently investigates how inflammatory signals drive epithelial repair programs in inflammatory bowel disease in projects funded by EMBO and the European Crohn´s and Colitis Organization.
Lisa Ott, Mentor Programme Consultant, Founder of Perspectiv (DK)
Lisa Ott is one of the pioneers in mentoring in Denmark. Since 1990’ies Lisa has applied her mentoring expertise to a diverse range of organizations, including trade unions, international banking companies, media companies, engineering firms, daycare centres, municipalities, and universities.
Author: “Mentor network – management development across companies”. Published in May 2019 by the publisher Direction and “Mentorship Opportunities” – for use in practice. Børsens Forlag. 2nd Edition 2009.
In 2018, the European Mentoring and Coaching Council awarded Lisa an international award for pioneering work with mentoring in Denmark.
Marie Aare Bentsen, Associate Data Lead Project Director, Novo Nordisk (DK)
Marie holds a MSc and a PhD degree within genetics, pharmacology, and metabolism from University of Copenhagen, and has +10 years of scientific experience within metabolic diseases, neuroscience, and application of omics from University of Copenhagen, University of Washington and from her role as portfolio scientist in Novo Nordisk. Recently, Marie moved into a new role as an Associate Data Lead Project Director within obesity in Novo Nordisk. Marie possesses a strong passion for lifelong learning as a mentee, through mentoring, and by engaging with peers.
Maria Hauge Pedersen, Staff Scientist, New York Genome Center, New York (US)
Maria Hauge Pedersen obtained her PhD in Molecular Pharmacology focusing on the lipid sensing receptors of the gut in the lab of Thue W Schwartz (CBMR, KU). She has since been awarded a Novo Nordisk Foundation fellowship grant to study abroad, where she has done a postdoc at Columbia University at the department of Molecular Therapeutics. In her postdoc she investigates signaling pathways that are important for incretin hormone secretion through G protein coupled receptors and has further developed tools to investigate their signaling. Currently, Maria holds a position as scientific program manager at the New York Genome Center at the Center for Neurodegenerative diseases. Overseeing the team’s research projects, ensuring that the scientific scope of the work is being met. The overall objective is to develop a spatio-temporal map of specific brain regions critical to understanding ALS and FTD disease progression.
Maya Silverman, PhD Candidate, University of California, Irvine (US)
Maya Silverman is a dedicated advocate for sustainable, equitable, evidence-based, and high-impact mentorship. She developed the Fellowship Mentorship and Writing Excellence Certificate program, which prepares graduate students to mentor graduate and undergraduate students in fellowship writing. With this inaugural certificate program, Maya is kickstarting the development of mentorship training and fellowship writing support within UC Irvine’s School of Physical Sciences. Maya is an astrophysicist by training, studying dark matter in galaxies, like our own Milky Way Galaxy, but her commitment to mentorship transcends disciplines.
Nicole Schmitt, Professor MSO, University of Copenhagen (DK)
Nicole Schmitt is a professor at the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen. In her research she explores the physiology of ion channel complexes with particular interest in the molecular mechanisms underlying atrial fibrillation. Beyond her research, Nicole is deeply committed to academic development, taking on key roles including the Vice Head of Department for Education at BMI and leading the faculty’s Centre for Online and Blended Learning. Nicole is an experienced mentor in UCPH’s mentorship program for assistant professors as well as in the faculty’s program for postdocs, where she also contributes as a member of the steering committee.
Pearlyn Toh, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Copenhagen (DK)
Pearlyn started her postdoc in the Kilpeläinen group at the NNF Center for Basic Metabolic Research (CBMR) after finishing her PhD at the Mechanobiology Institute at the National University of Singapore. Her current project focuses on the functional characterisation of genomic variants associated with insulin resistance in adipocytes, to understand the mechanisms behind how such gene alterations lead to an increased risk of insulin resistance. Pearlyn was a mentee in the mentor programme for postdocs at the University of Copenhagen, where she was matched with a mentor to help in her professional career development.
The webinar series on Mentoring and Career Development is organised by the Danish Diabetes and Endocrine Academy in collaboration with:
For questions on the webinar series, please contact DDEA at ouh.ddea@rsyd.dk
This webinar and discussion series is intended for PhD students, postdocs and assistant professors who want to know more about mentorship, support for career development, career paths and opportunities.
Although the webinars specifically target early-career researchers, participants from all career levels are very welcome to join.
Registration deadline:
6 November 2024. You can sign up, up until the day before the last webinar.
You select which webinars you would like to attend upon registration. The webinar link will be shared with you the day before each webinar.
Additional information
Pending agreement with each speaker, the webinars will be recorded and provided on the DDEA website.
EAN: 5798 0022 30642
Reference: 1025 0006
CVR: 29 19 09 09
