Are you a PhD student or postdoc interested in exploring new opportunities beyond academia? Join After Science Network and learn how your research can lead to real-world impact through innovation and entrepreneurship. 

LU Innovation, together with Lund's Doctoral Student Union and the Doctoral Guild of the faculty of Engineering, invites you to After Science Network on June 4, where we’ll visit three research-based startups in Lund and get a behind-the-scenes look at how research-based ideas can grow into companies.

Be part of this new university-wide network and help shape it from the very beginning! If you are not able to join this session but still would like to be a part of the network and upcoming meetups, please email savannah.gillblad@innovation.lu.se and register.

During this session, you’ll:

• Visit research-based startups in Lund
• Meet the people behind the innovations
• Hear about their journeys from research-based idea to company

Get insight into what startups may look for when hiring PhDs and postdocs 

Explore what it can mean to work in a startup Connect with other early career researchers across Lund University

No prior experience in innovation or entrepreneurship is needed — just curiosity.

Agenda for this session: Startup Crawl

Explore Lund’s Innovation Scene From the Inside! 

During the crawl, we’ll visit: 

• Ironic Biotech at Smile VentureHub (Life science incubator)
• GasporoxT
• Third stop TBA

We’ll end the evening with food and networking on the rooftop at The Spark, where LU Innovation has its office — a summer wrap-up for the network before the break.

Schedule

More info TBA.

• 15:00 Meet-up and information at The Spark, Medicon Village
• 15:15 Startup Crawl with three stops
• 18:30 Networking and food at the rooftop of the Spark, Medicon Village

Sign up  

Register on the event site Ungapped.