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A science officer at the European Science Foundation describes her journey through careers and countries.

A microbiologist, a mechanical engineer, and a chemist tell Science Careers how they ended up in synthetic biology.

Jim McHale is a Ph.D. chemist with a postdoc from Princeton University who found a rewarding career designing toilets.

French virologist Ali Saïb is getting praise for his research achievements, his science communication activities, and his efforts to attract a diversity of people to scientific careers.

Throughout his professional journey, Marc Hermann has always done "Exactly What He Always Wanted to Do"

Spanish biologist David Ràfols used his experience in the food industry and public technology-transfer offices to create his own open-innovation company.

Italian electrical engineer Cinzia Casiraghi has won €1.65 million to set up her own lab in Germany.

Curiosity, boldness, and single-mindedness won Austrian scientist Konrad Hochedlinger a place in cell reprogramming, Science’s breakthrough of the year for 2008.

After 30 years split evenly between the Ivy League and the Big Ten, a researcher and administrator reflects on the differences in institutional culture.

Researchers are developing multi-touch desks and other technologies to create the classroom of the future.

For-profit companies focused on compliance with government regulations provide career opportunities for archaeologists.

Cameron Hummels is one of 46 student ambassadors representing NASA during the International Year of Astronomy.

Established and early-career physician-scientists say it's time to focus on solutions, not problems, to advance women in academic medicine.

Spaniard Juan A. Añel has established himself quickly in atmospheric physics while still finding time for other professional activities.

Natural history museums have long been recognized as priceless repositories of knowledge, but in recent years they have reasserted their scientific importance.

As a curator in entomology at the Natural History Museum in London, Erica McAlister is responsible for everything from maintaining collections to fieldwork.

On Charles Darwin's birthday, here’s a collection of resources related to our Science Careers feature.

What does the tale of Douglas Prasher, the protein, and the Nobel Prize reveal about the scientific labor market?

Recently nominated as the best young scientist in Hungary, chemistry Ph.D. student Imre Miklós Szilágyi has been striving to succeed with the desire to glorify God.

Gina Wingood, a black Catholic woman raised in a white suburb, found love and her calling in San Francisco's ghettos talking condoms, sex, and ethnic pride.