In academia, you work to expand the limits of human wisdom. In industry, you work just to make a company richer. Or don’t you? — In your life as an academic, you are Jodie Foster looking for radio signals from other worlds. You are Prof. Indiana Jones teaching archeology in between adventures. You are Alan Grant, Ellie Sattler and Ian Malcolm talking about chaos theory while exploring Jurassic Park.

Are you looking for your first data science job after leaving academia? It may not be as easy as you think. — When I left astrophysics I thought that finding a data science job in industry would be easy. After all, I was already quite good with both data and science. But the truth is that going over to the dark si… I mean finding my first industry job was actually much…

Are you considering leaving academia, but you’re afraid of not being able to go back if you change your mind? — Believe me, I understand your fear. I don’t have any tattoos, I backup my files regularly, and I appreciate having an “undo” button above these lines as I write them. In other words: I always try to avoid irreversible changes. So, when I started pondering leaving academia to become a…

Are you leaving academia to start working on so-called “real world” problems? If so, you’re probably all too familiar with this turn of phrase. …