Over two days, the industrial graduate school Exact held its spring meeting, focusing on collaboration and development opportunities as well as career planning for doctoral students.
– It has been two days filled with fascinating presentations from our doctoral students and many fruitful discussions about the graduate school’s collaboration and development opportunities, says Jörgen Samuelsson, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Graduate School. We invited representatives from the research groups DAMI, Pro2Be, and Mirai as well as the new industrial graduate school M3C, and we see many opportunities for even broader cooperation. Career planning for the doctoral students was also an important theme during these days.
The doctoral students attended inspirational lectures on career planning and a demonstration of generative AI in the writing process.
– It was an interesting and rewarding meeting that gave me new perspectives on career development and the different paths one can take after education, says Fredrik Andersson, a doctoral student at the company Blue Ocean Closures. It was also exciting to hear about – and discuss – the academic research environments and collaboration opportunities available to us doctoral students.
The Graduate School Aims to Grow
– Now we look forward and plan to connect more corporate partners and doctoral students to the graduate school, says Jörgen Samuelsson. During the spring, we will actively seek new collaboration partners and prepare the process to admit additional doctoral students, with a planned start after summer 2026.
Exact is an industrial graduate school focusing on forest-based bioeconomy and digitalization, a collaboration between research groups at Karlstad University, eight companies, and several industry partners. The goal of the graduate school is to combine knowledge in process technology and systems analysis with expertise in digitalization, to develop energy-efficient digitalized production processes and high-quality bio-based products. The vision is to contribute to the circular transition and future-proofing of the Swedish process industry through demand-driven research.
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