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Early-Career Researcher Skills

Olivia Viessmann, Tianyou (Ti) Xu, Adrian Groves

Wednesday, 15 July 2026, 12pm to 1pm

Hybrid via Teams or in-person the Cowey rooms, FMRIB Annexe

Hosted by Polytimi Frangou & William Clarke

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WIN Wednesday Researcher Skills

ECR Researcher Skills: From Academia into Industry

Please join us for the upcoming ECR Researchers Skills on 15th July, 12-1pm in OxCIN, where three OxCIN alumni will share their experiences of moving from academia to industry. The Q&A session will cover reflections of the speakers on their career journeys and offer practical insights. Among other topics, we'll explore the top transferable skills researchers bring to industry roles, how to recognise and articulate them, and why an industry career can be a better fit for some of us.

Our guests will be:

Olivia Viessmann - Machine Learning @ NVIDIA - https://www.linkedin.com/in/olivia-viessmann-75b00b156/ Olivia was a DPhil student in the Physics Group at FMRIB under Peter Jezzard. At NVIDIA she develops machine learning methods for the life sciences, from foundation models for biology and chemistry to agentic AI for drug discovery. She previously worked at Flagship Pioneering and as a post-doc in MGH/Harvard.

Tianyou (Ti) Xu - CEO @ GatherGov - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tianyouxu/ Ti was also a  DPhil student in the Physics Group at FMRIB under Karla Miller. GatherGov helps owners and developers gain visibility into development pipelines and entitlement risk across 7,900 US municipalities by analyzing local planning and city council meetings. Previously he co-founded StudyStream, an education technologies platform, and took part in YCombinator S21.

Adrian Groves - Headlands Technologies LLC - https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrian-groves-42932216/ Adrian completed his DPhil with Mark Woolrich and then worked as a post-doc in the FMRIB analysis group between 2006-2012. He then left academia for quant finance. He's currently working for a high frequency trading firm in London.

Please note that our panelists will join online, and the meeting is in person and online. Teams link here.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

If you have any questions, please email polytimi.frangou@ndcn.ox.ac.uk or william.clarke@ndcn.ox.ac.uk.

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