Created by the Postdoc Network Committee to improve both the onboarding process and the tenure process for postdocs in the department, this tool covers everything from living in Denmark to finding shared equipment across BIO.
Postdoc Network
Postdoc life can mean many different things. It can involve many new things such as moving to a new country, testing out new fields of research, managing an independent research grant, starting a family life and much more. While this can all be fun and exciting, it can also be overwhelming. Knowing others in the same boat as you, is almost always a win! This is why the BIO Postdoc Network exists!
The BIO Postdoc Network is for postdocs and assistant professors at the Department of Biology and is organized by the BIO Postdoc Committee. For postdoc by postdocs.
The aim is to unite postdocs across the Department in a safe, meaningful, and sustainable network that facilitates career development and a sense of belonging.
The BIO Postdoc Network started in 2021 with it primary mission to create a profesional and supporting network. We are approx. 100 postdocs and throughout the year we organize events about career opportunities, project management, grant writing, teaching etc. - but also the fun and social events are important as you can see below.
Previous events
- Transferable skills seminar – Guest Emilie Lindquist from IDA
- Comedy night at Knock Knock Comedy Club
- Postdoc day 2025

- Science communication in collaboration with Copenhagen SciComm Incubator Guests: Anita Brozkova, Eleonora Nigro, Walter Dellisanti.
- Comedy night at Knock Knock Comedy Club
- Scientific illustration
- Postdoc day 2024
- Sci-Art sculpture event
- Friday PAX Day - Drinks and games
- Pub Quiz
- Scientific illustration event II
- Art Science competition and exhibition

- Fund opportunities and grand writing workshop
- Science communication
- Postdoc day 2023
- Salsa event – BIO PhD and BIO Postdoc Network in collaboration with Salsa4water
- Karaoke party
- Why join a union? Workshop with DM

- Summer BBQ - together with PAX
- How to start or participate in Academic Spin-Off Companies
- Art Science competition and exhibition
- Comedy night at Knock Knock Comedy Club
- Science Communication Workshop

Media: X, LinkedIn & Videnskab.dk
Contact
You want to join the network or you have a question regarding an event, please send an email to adm-postdoc@bio.ku.dk or directly to a member on the list below.
Network Committee
Jamie Auxillos
Computational and RNA Biology
jamie.auxillos@bio.ku.dk
Elizabeth Connolly
Cell- and Neurobiology
elizabeth.connolly@bio.ku.dk
Leïla Dos Santos
Cell Biology and Physiology
leila.dossantos@bio.ku.dk
Laura Käse
Freshwater Biology
laura.kaese@bio.ku.dk
Miguel Angel Salinas García
Microbiology
miguel.garcia@bio.ku.dk

Alumni committee
Tanvi Taparia
Microbiology now team lead
Roxane Crouigneau
Cell Biology and Physiology
Anita Brozkova
Functional Genomics
Ryan Ross Germain
Ecology and Evolution
Signe Lett
Terrestrial Ecology
Max Herzog
Freshwater Biology
Georgios Katzilieris Petras
Cell Biology and Physiology
Alison Ruth Irwin
Marine Biological Section
Renzo Fidel Ferdinando Balboa
Computational and RNA Biology
Laura Nicole Tensen
Ecology and Evolution