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The Chemistry of a PhD

Ramblings of a Drug Discovery PhD student who should really be in the lab or writing her thesis.

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Posted on September 4, 2020September 4, 2020

How I secured an ideal post-PhD job during lockdown

2020 certainly hasn’t panned out for many of us as we’d have hoped. Ideally, I would have submitted my PhD thesis around Easter and then start applying to jobs while preparing for the viva, hopefully with something lined up by graduation, having had the perfect month or so of downtime after an intense few years …

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Hi there! Thank you for visiting my blog. My name is Fiona Scott.

In 2020, during Covid-19 lockdown, I finished a PhD degree I had carried out at University of Sussex, UK. My project involved making drug-like molecules for targeting a process we don’t fully understand yet.

I enjoyed sharing the highs and lows of PhD life on this blog and my instagram account. You can now follow my writing adventures at fionascottwrites.com.

 

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