Postdoc appointments simultaneously offer great opportunities for growth and great demands on your time. How do you make sure you are using this limited window of opportunity effectively? In this class, we will cover time management at two different scales. First, you’ll learn how to balance the day-to-day demands for your attention. Second, you’ll gain insight into planning the trajectory of your training to make the most of a relatively short period in your career.

Speaker: Wesley Marner II, Ph.D., educational programs manager, Morgridge Institute for Research

Marner is the educational programs manager at the Morgridge Institute for Research, a private biomedical research institute affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison. At the Morgridge Institute, Marner leads a professional and career advising program for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. In collaboration with colleagues at UW-Madison, his office creates professional development training for campus trainees and provides one-on-one advising. Marner also coordinates youth STEM mentorship/apprenticeship programs at the institute, and he is responsible for aspects of the institute’s diversity, equity, and inclusion activities. He has held both academic and private-sector positions engaged in trainee development, public engagement with science, informal science education, and scientific team management. Marner earned a Bachelor of Science from Virginia Tech and a doctorate in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.