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Academic MisfitsLeaving Industry AND Academia with Dr Michele VeldsmanMichele Veldsman, founder of Playroom, and a recovering academic, who pivoted from both academia and industry to create her own path. She gets vulnerable and discusses her journey from academia to biotech to CEO and tech founder. We explore: 🔹 Why she left academia (spoiler: systemic barriers played a big role) 🔹 The realities of… Read More »Leaving Industry AND Academia with Dr Michele Veldsman2025-04-071h 12
Life After PhDDr. Michele Veldsman: a neuroscientist, entrepreneur, mentor and leaderWelcome back to Life After PhD!
Dr. Michele Veldsman is currently the head of Research & Development in Neuroscience at Cambridge Cognition, based in the UK. She graduated with her PhD from Cambridge University, and completed several postdoctoral roles / research scientist roles before taking her current job. She is a well-known mentor in the field of human neuroscience, especially to women and persons from marginalized and minoritized groups. She's gone out of her way to help others seeking a change from academia, and in her spare time (I joke, I joke), is about to go live with her...2024-02-0143 min
Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots465: Playroom with Michele VeldsmanMichele Veldsman is Director of Neuroscience R&D at Cambridge Cognition and Founder and CEO of Playroom, an invitation-only secure social network for families.
Victoria talks to Michele about the premise of Playroom and its goal of giving parents a network, a safe social community where parents are able to know and easily communicate with people associated with their children and also provide specific options to maintain boundaries when it comes to their privacy and safety, the challenges families face in raising kids and maintaining a career, and new features she wants the app to include, such...2023-03-0930 min
Business and Bubble TeaBuilding Communities with Playroom: A Social Network for Parents and ChildrenDr Michele Veldsman is a senior research scientist at Oxford University with a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Cambridge. She is a freelance consultant for tech startups, providing neuroscientific insights into optimising brain and mental health. She is the founder of playroom - an app to simplify managing family life and make meaningful and quality connections to other families.2022-07-2712 min
OHBM NeurosalienceNeurosalience #S1E10 - We all need mentors: The OHBM Student-Postdoc Student Interest GroupIn this episode Peter Bandettini meets Carolina Makowski, Michele Veldsman and Alex Fornito to discuss the OHBM Student–Postdoc special interest group (SIG), with particular emphasis on their mentoring scheme and meeting-related workshops. Carolina is a current member of the SIG and Michele previously served as its Chair, Alex has been an active mentor to several junior OHBM members over the years through this group. They discuss the mentorship program, the workshops at the meeting, what good mentorship is, and why it’s needed more than ever, as the stresses and demands of students and postdocs increases within an ever...2021-05-1944 min
Einstein A Go-GoEinstein A Go-Go - 30 November 2014Einstein A Go Go - 30th NovemberAndrea from the BOM, Dr Lauren, Chris KP, Dr Shane and Liv on Twitter.News Items: New weather reporting methods, The mechanics in drinking of cats and dogs, Permeability of graphene, new geo-engineering experiments. First Guest: Svenja Kratz is an interdisciplinary artist who utilises traditional and experimental bio-art practices to explore the impact of new technologies and science on concepts of the self, other and the body. Current exhibition until 21st Feburary at RMIT Gallery http://www.svenjakratz.com/Second Guest: Dr Michele Veldsman...2014-11-3043 min