21- Dr Marta Milo- Driving your career through curiosity

Dr Marta Milo is a research scientist who has demonstrated her courage in different ways, by working in a male dominated discipline, by retraining as a biologist and by daring to leave the relative stability of an academic position to embrace a new career in industry.Her ethos in building her career is based on a deep sense of curiosity and a desire to build trusting collaborations.Her aspiration to make the most of her knowledge, skills and research maturity, as well as a strong commitment to make her research count for cancer patients have been the driver for her recent move into the pharmaceutical industry.Listening to our conversation will prompt your thinking about:How open are you to listen to researchers from other disciplines?How much attention are you paying to language when developing research conversations outside of your specific research area?What is your own approach to giving and receiving feedback?Do you really know how you want to contribute to research? Will this drive your next career step?About MartaAs a computer science and applied math research scientist, a move to biomedical sciences could have remained a distant encounter, but not for Marta. Her curiosity and thirst for knowledge motivated her to continue her training in biology. After a Wellcome trust fellowship that enabled her to extend her biological knowledge, Marta continued her career through a fellowship in Bioinformatics, before moving into an academic position in Computational Biology at the University of Sheffield.Since 2020, Marta has taken the challenge of moving into industry. She is now Research Data Science Lead at AstraZeneca.*** I write a blog post for each Podcast episode, inspired by the many themes discussed with my guests. The blog posts prompt you in your reflection journey.Access all podcasts and blog posts inspired by the Podcast interviews from: https://tesselledevelopment.com/podcastRegister on the mailing list to receive Podcast updates: https://tesselledevelopment.activehosted.com/f/5Get in touch for questions, queries or to suggest a brilliant contributor: [email protected]