Careers Talk: Speaking with former researchers
What does it take to launch a career outside academia? In the Careers Talk video series, EURAXESS Luxembourg met former researchers who decided to make the most of their PhD to build a career beyond academia. Discover the diversity of career paths of former researchers from the University of Luxembourg and the company they work for.
Becoming a senior organisational psychologist
From research in psychology at the University of Luxembourg to a job as a senior organisational psychologist, Lindie van der Westhuizen has joined Zortify - a highly innovative European natural language processing company.
As a senior organisational psychologist, Lindie
- is part of the human experience management team,
- contributes to the development and improvement of Zortify human experience management tools.
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Becoming director of Zortify Labs
Christopher Morse is a former PhD candidate of the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) where he investigated the application of user experience (UX) design methodologies in the development of next-generation interfaces for museums. Now with Zortify, he co-directs their internal research and development organisation, called Zortify Labs.
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What does the role of Director of Zortify mean? What are the key skills? How to get there?
As a Director of Zortify Labs, Christopher Morse
- is involved in data visualisation projects,
- works with the User Experience Design team to prepare user studies or customer journeys or to design reports for product lines,
- participates in paper club session to read and discuss ongoing research,
- oversees research initiatives.