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Natalia Bielczyk, PhD
BASIC PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name: Natalia Zofia Bielczyk, PhD
Nationality: Polish
Country of residence: the Netherlands (since 2011)
Business email: info@ontologyofvalue.com
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Substack: https://nataliabielczyk.substack.com/
Medium: https://nataliabielczyk.medium.com/
Clubhouse: @nataliabielczyk
ORCiD: 0000-0003-1604-9143
WORKING EXPERIENCE
July 1st, 2019 – present: Owner at Ontology of Value®, Nijmegen, the Netherlands (KvK-nummer 75296284), an innovative online career incubator and accelerator. This R&D, EdTech, and consulting agency conducts research around the job market and builds new tools and practices to help professionals craft their dream careers, and assist businesses create synergistic, healthy, and happy teams.
November 7th, 2018 – present: Founder and Director at Stichting Solaris Onderzoek en Ontwikkeling, Nijmegen, the Netherlands (KvK-nummer 73055093), a private foundation set to (i) improve on the quality of mentoring in academia, (ii) assist in transfers between academia and industry, (iii) improve on fairness in scientific projects. The foundation has received the ANBI status and as such, it is recognized as an institution for public good in the Netherlands.
October 1st, 2024 – September 30th, 2025: Docent and Master Thesis Supervisor, promoted 58 Master theses in Psychology, WSNP, Warsaw
October 1st, 2013 – September 30th, 2017: PhD candidate at UMC St. Radboud, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience
April 1st – September 30th, 2013: a Research Assistant at UMC St Radboud, Nijmegen, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience
EDUCATION HISTORY
June 18th, 2020: Ph.D. in Computational Neuroscience, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre & Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Thesis: Signal detection and causal inference in functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
September 28th, 2012: M.Sc. in Physics (specialization: Medical Physics), University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland. Thesis: Description of Spectral Characteristics for Multichannel EEG Record With Use of VFAD
July 15th, 2010: M.Sc. in Mathematics (specialization: Mathematics Applied in Social Sciences), University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland. Thesis: Dynamical Models of Interpersonal Interactions with Delay
February 23rd, 2010: M.Sc. in Psychology (specialization: Psychometrics), University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland. Thesis: Multiple Classification of Drawing Forms as a tool measuring capacity for solving divergent problems
2004 – 2012: College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Warsaw
BOOKS
Bielczyk, N. (2025). The Longest Journey: The Ultimate Guide To Self-Navigation in the Job Market. Ontology of Value, [In preparation]
Bielczyk, N. (2022). How to Navigate in the Job Market and Shine in the Job Interviews. Ontology of Value, ISBN-10: 9083057941
Bielczyk, N. (2021). The Ontology of Value: Discovering Your Source of Value for the Society and Working Environment That Naturally Fit You. Ontology of Value, ISBN-10: 9789083057934
Bielczyk, N. (2020). What Is Out There for Me? The Landscape of Post-PhD Career Tracks. Ontology of Value, ISBN-10: 1675579660
MEDIA APPEARANCES
Natalia on career education in (potentially) post-labor economy: TEDx Milpitas 2025
Natalia on her post-PhD career in PhD Hardtalk with Noma Mguni: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Natalia on women navigating careers in AI & Tech: Cybele Health Podcast, ep. 11: Breaking Barriers
Natalia on the complex job market and changing careers: Scrum with Dr. Joanna podcast by Dr Joanna Płaskonka (in Polish)
Natalia on work in the BANI world, becoming our own Zen masters, AI in recruitment, and contagious empathy: Amplifying Cognition podcast by Ross Dawson, ep. 58
Natalia on self-navigating in the job market and the future of work: Engineering Emotions and Energy podcast with Justin Wenck, PhD
Natalia on finding your dream job outside academia: When Science Speaks with Mark Bayer, PhD
Natalia on the power of social capital: Digital Savages podcast by Amir Sabirovic
Natalia briefly on her career story: STEM Jobs Talk blog by University of Southern California San Diego Neurosciences Graduate Program Career Development Committee
Natalia on her career story: Learning with Chandan YouTube episode
Natalia on her relationship with the God of Money and personal finances in general: Personal Finances For PhDs with Emily Roberts, PhD
Natalia on her own story arc so far: PhD Career Stories, episode #97
Natalia on handling failure and hardship throughout the professional career: “How I Fail” Series by Veronika Cheplygina, S02E02
Natalia on what she learned about herself in academia: Share on Board series, article #2
Natalia on the job market for PhDs and self-navigation in the job market: PaPa PhD podcast, S02E07
Natalia on her company, her book, and looking for a new purpose after leaving academia: #ChangeHigherEd & #HireHigherEd event, November 25th 2020
Natalia on her gap year after the PhD: Self-Compassionate Professor podcast, episode 42
PUBLICATIONS
[01] PUBLISHED
Drenik, G. (2026, April 9). Career Development In An AI-First World: Floating Points And Constants (expert opinion within the article) Forbes, https://www.forbes.com/sites/garydrenik/2026/04/09/career-development-in-an-ai-first-world-floating-points-and-constants/
Norling, L. (2026, March 16). AI and the PhD student: Friend or Foe? (expert opinion within the article) Nature Careers 651, 842-844. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-00843-y
Niedzielewski, K., Bartczuk, R. P., Bielczyk, N., Bogucki, D., Dreger, F., Dudziuk, G., Górski, Ł, Gruziel-Słomka, M., Haman, J., Kaczorek, A., Kisielewski, J., Krupa, B., Moszyński, N., Nowosielski, J. M., Radwan, M., Semeniuk, M., Tymoszuk, U., Zieliński, J., Rakowski, F. (2024). Forecasting SARS-CoV-2 epidemic dynamic in Poland with the pDyn agent-based model. Epidemics.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755436524000628
Sarabipour, S., Hainer, S. J., Arslan, F. N., de Winde, C. M., Furlong, E., Bielczyk, N., Jadavji, N. M., Shah, A. P., Davla, S. (2021). Building and sustaining mentor interactions as a mentee. The FEBS Journal, DOI: 10.1111/febs.15823
Bielczyk, N. (2021). Finding Your Tribe. ecrLife blog. https://ecrlife.org/finding-your-tribe/
Sarabipour, S., Hainer, S. J., Furlong, E., Jadavji, N. M., de Winde, C. M., Bielczyk, N., Shah, A. P. (2021). Writing an effective and supportive recommendation letter. The FEBS Journal, DOI: 10.1111/febs.15757
Bielczyk, N. Z. & Bonet-Carne, E. (2020). Safety vs freedom: the landscape of post-PhD careers. https://ecrlife.org/academic-career-landscape/
Bielczyk, N. Z., Ando*, A., Badhwar*, A., Caldinelli*, C., Gao*, M., Haugg*, A., Hernandez*, L. M., Ito*, K., Kessler*, D., Lurie*, D., Makary*, M. M., Nikolaidis*, A., Veldsman*, M., Allen, C., Bankston, A., Costa Boffino, C., Bottenhorn, K. L., Braukmann, R., Cheplygina, V., Ercan, E., Finc, K., Foo, H., Khatibi, A., La, C., Mehler, D. M. A., Narayanan, S., Poldrack, R. A., Raamana, P. R., Salo, T., Goddard-Sebillotte, C., Uddin, L. Q., Valeriani, D., Valk, S. L., Walton, C. C., Ward, P. G. D., Yanes, J. A., Zhou, X., OHBM Student and Postdoc Special Interest Group. Effective self-management for early career researchers in the natural and life sciences. Neuron 22(2): 212-7, IF(2018): 14.403. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.03.015
Tennant, J., Bielczyk, N., Greshake Tzovaras, B., Masuzzo, P., Steiner, T. (2020). Introducing Massively Open Online Papers (MOOPs). Accepted in KULA: knowledge creation, dissemination, and preservation studies 4(1): 1. DOI: 10.5334/kula.63
Cheplygina, V., Hermans, F., Albers, C., Bielczyk, N., Smeets, I. (2020). Ten Simple Rules for Getting Started on Twitter as a Scientist. PLoS Computational Biology 16(2): e1007513, IF(2018): 4.428. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007513
Koenings, M., Blokpoel, M., Kapusta, K., Claassen, T., Butelaar, J. K., Glennon, J. C., Bielczyk, N. Z. (2019). Quantifying free behavior in an~open field using k-motif approach. Scientific Reports 9:19873, IF(2018): 4.122, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-56482-z
Lurie*, D. J., Kessler*, D., Bassett, D. S., Betzel, R. F., Breakspear, M., Keilholz, S., Kucyi, A., Liégeois, R., Lindquist, M. A., McIntosh, A. R., Poldrack, R. A., Shine, J. M., Thompson, W. H., Bielczyk, N. Z., Douw, L., Kraft, D., Miller, R. L., Muthuraman, M., Pasquini, L., Razi, A., Vidaurre, D., Xie, H., Calhoun, V. D. (2019). Questions and controversies in the study of time-varying functional connectivity in resting fMRI. Network Neuroscience. DOI: 10.1162/netn_a_00116
Bielczyk, N., Llera, A., Buitelaar, J. K., Glennon, J., Beckmann, C. (2019). Increasing robustness of pairwise methods for effective connectivity in Magnetic Resonance Imaging by building a classifier based on the Dynamic Causal Modeling generative model and complex moments of the BOLD distribution. Network Neuroscience 3(4): 1009–1037. DOI: 10.1162/netn_a_00062
Bielczyk*, N., Piskała*, K., Płomecka*, M, Radziński, P., Todorova, L., Foryś, U. (2019). A time-delay model of decision making in cortical networks. PLoS ONE 14(2): e0211885, IF(2017): 2.766. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0211885
Bielczyk, N., Uithol, S., van Mourik, T., Anderson, P., Glennon, J. C., Buitelaar, J. K. (2019). Disentangling causal webs in the brain using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A review of current approaches. Network Neuroscience 3(2): 237-273, DOI: 10.1162/netn_a_00062
Bielczyk*, N. Z., Veldsman*, M., Ando, A., Caldinelli, C., Makary, M. M., Nikolaidis, A., Scelsi, M. A., Stefan, M., OHBM Student and Postdoc Special Interest Group, Badhwar, A. (2018). Establishing online mentorship for early career researchers: Lessons from the Organization for Human Brain Mapping International Mentoring Programme. European Journal of Neuroscience, IF(2018): 2.941, DOI: 10.1111/ejn.14320
Bours*, C. C. A. H., Bakker-Huvenaars*, M. J., Tramper, J., Bielczyk, N., Scheepers, F., Nijhof, K. S., Baanders, A. N., Rommelse, N. N. J., Medendorp, P., Glennon, J. C. and Buitelaar, J. K. (2018). Emotional face recognition in male adolescents with autism spectrum disorder or disruptive behavior disorder: an eye-tracking study. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 1-15, IF(2015): 3.339, DOI: 10.1007/s00787-018-1174-4
Bielczyk, N., Walocha*, F., Ebel, P., Llera, A., Haak, K., Buitelaar, J. K., Glennon, J. C., Beckmann, C. F. (2018). Thresholding functional connectomes by means of Mixture Modeling. NeuroImage 171: 402-414, IF(2017): 5.835, DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.01.003
Jager, A., Amiri, H., Bielczyk, N., Heukelum, S., Heerschap, A., Aschrafi, A., Poelmans, G., Buitelaar, J., Kozicz, T., Glennon, J. (2017). Cortical control of aggression: GABA signalling in the anterior cingulate cortex. European Neuropsychopharmacology, IF(2017): 4.239, DOI: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2017.12.007
Foryś, U., Bielczyk, N., Piskała, K., Płomecka, M, Poleszczuk, J. (2017). Delay-induced impairments in perceptual decision making: neuronal population modeling approach. Complexity, IF(2016): 4.621 (2/100, Mathematics Interdisciplinary Applications)
Bielczyk, N., Llera, A., Buitelaar, J. K., Glennon, J. C., Beckmann, C. F. (2017). The impact of haemodynamic variability and signal mixing on the identifiability of effective connectivity structures in BOLD fMRI. Brain and Behavior, IF(2016): 2.128, DOI: 10.1002/brb3.777
Bielczyk, N., Buitelaar, J., Glennon, J., Tiesinga, P. (2015). Circuit to construct mapping: amathematical tool for assisting the diagnosis and treatment in major depressive disorder. Frontiers in Psychiatry 6:29, IF(2016): 3.53, DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2015.00029
Bielczyk, N., Foryś, U., Płatkowski, T. (2013). Dynamical models of dyadic interactions with delay. The Journal of Mathematical Sociology 37(4): 223-249, IF(2016): 0.680, DOI: 10.1080/0022250X.2011.597279
Bielczyk, N., Bodnar, M., Foryś, U. (2012). Delay Can Stabilize: Love Affairs Dynamics. Applied Mathematics and Computation 219(8): 3923–37, IF(2016): 1.738, DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2012.10.028
[02] UNDER REVIEW:
Fakhar, K., Schmors, L., Gonschorek, D., Bielczyk, N. Z. (2019). Neuronal Causes and Behavioural Effects: a Review on Logical, Methodological, and Technical Issues With Respect to Causal Explanations of Behaviour in Neuroscience. Under review.
[03] PREPRINTS:
Bielczyk, N. Z. & Bonet-Carne, E. (2019). Safety or freedom? On the post-PhD career tracks. Open Science Framework, DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/5HM8P
Fakhar, K., Schmors, L., Gonschorek, D., Bielczyk, N. Z. (2019). Neuronal Causes and Behavioural Effects: a Review on Logical, Methodological, and Technical Issues With Respect to Causal Explanations of Behaviour in Neuroscience. PsyArXiv, DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/zk2dy
Koenings, M., Blokpoel, M., Kapusta, K., Claassen, T., Butelaar, J. K., Glennon, J. C., Bielczyk, N. Z. (2019). Quantifying free behavior in an~open field using k-motif approach. bioRxiv, DOI: 10.1101/735399
Tennant, J., Bielczyk, N., Cheplygina, V., Greshake Tzovaras, B., Hartgerink, C., Havemann, J., Masuzzo, P., Steiner, T. (2019). Ten simple rules for researchers collaborating on Massively Open Online Papers (MOOPs). Open Science Framework, URL: https://osf.io/preprints/metaarxiv/et8ak
Bielczyk, N. Z., Ando*, A., Badhwar*, A., Caldinelli*, C., Gao*, M., Haugg*, A., Hernandez*, L. M., Ito*, K., Kessler*, D., Lurie*, D., Makary*, M. M., Nikolaidis*, A., Veldsman*, M., Allen, C., Bankston, A., Bottenhorn, K. L., Braukmann, R., Cheplygina, V., Calhoun, V., Costa Boffino, C., Ercan, E., Finc, K., Foo, H., Khatibi, A., La, C., Mehler, D. M. A., Narayanan, S., Poldrack, R. A., Raamana, P. R., Salo, T., Goddard-Sebillotte, C., Uddin, L. Q., Valeriani, D., Valk, S. L., Walton, C. C., Ward, P. G. D., Yanes, J. A., Zhou, X., OHBM Student and Postdoc Special Interest Group. Effective self-management for early career researchers in the natural and life sciences. Open Science Framework, DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/W6EMK
Bielczyk*, N., Piskała*, K., Płomecka*, M, Radziński, P., Todorova, L., Poleszczuk, J., Foryś, U. (2018). A time-delay model of decision making in cortical networks. bioRxiv, DOI: 10.1101/348276
Bielczyk, N., Uithol, S., van Mourik, T., Havenith, M. N., Anderson, P., Glennon, J. C. , Buitelaar, J. K. (2017). Causal inference in functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: a Review of current approaches. arXiv:1708.04020
Bielczyk, N., Llera, A., Buitelaar, J. K., Glennon, J., Beckmann, C. (2016). Increasing robustness of pairwise methods for effective connectivity in functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging by using fractional moment series of BOLD signal distributions. arXiv:1606.08724
[04] CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Piskała, K., Płomecka, M., Bielczyk, N. (2017). Neural mass with short-term synaptic plasticity (STP) as a model of a winner-take-all competition in sensory systems. Proceedings of the XXIV National Conference on Application of Mathematics in Biology and Medicine, Jugowice, September 11th-15th.
Bodnar, M., Foryś, U., Poleszczuk, J., Bielczyk, N. (2010). Delay Can Stabilize: Love Affairs Dynamics. Proceedings of the XVI National Conference on Application of Mathematics in Biology and Medicine, Krynica Górska, September 14th-18th, pp. 12-17, AGH Kraków
[05] BOOK CHAPTERS
Bielczyk, N., Buitelaar, J., Glennon, J., Tiesinga, P. (2015). Circuit to construct mapping: amathematical tool for assisting the diagnosis and treatment in major depressive disorder. In: Kalis, A., Strijbos, D., de Bruin, L. and Glas, G. (Eds.): Causal explanation in psychiatry – beyond scientism and scepticism (pp. 88-102). Frontiers in Psychiatry.
Lewiński, P., Łukasik, M., Kurdej, K., Leonarski, F., Bielczyk, N., Rakowski, F., Rączaszek-Leonardi, J., Plewczyński, D. (2019). The World Color Survey: Data Analysis and Simulations. In: Massip Bonet, À., Bel-Enguix, G., Bastardas-Boada, A. (Eds): Complexity Applications in Language and Communication Sciences (pp. 289-311). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-04598-2_16
PUBLIC TALKS / CONFERENCE TALKS / OPEN SEMINARS
Lecturer, the Ontology of Value® Demo Day #3, San Francisco, August 28th 2026
Organizer & Speaker @ The Future of Work Mixer + Open Demos #6: WorkTech, Agentic AI & Robotics, Tesla Showroom, San Francisco, August 25th 2026
Speaker, Keynote talk “Brain Economy and Cognitive Debt: Protecting Human Intelligence in an AI-Driven World,” AGI Summit, San Francisco, July 19th, 2026
Lecturer, workshop “Brain Economy: Why Human Cognition Is Becoming the Ultimate Workplace Asset,” Venture Cafe Warsaw, June 25th 2026
Lecturer, the Ontology of Value® Certification Program #6, online, June 25-26th 2026
Lecturer, workshop “Business Model Canvas and Pitch Deck Preparation Session,” HERpreneur BootCampX, Warsaw CIC, Warsaw, June 24th 2026
Lecturer, the Ontology of Value® Certification Program #5, online, May 28-29th 2026
Workshop “Team Building for Founders,” the Funding Breakthrough Lab, May 19th 2026
The Ontology of Value Demo Day, Union Square, San Francisco, May 8th 2026
Workshop “Your Secret Power: Your Core Competencies. How to Find Your Competitive Advantage and Strategically Position Yourself in the Job Market,” Career Transition Conference: Design Your Future Career With AI + Web3, San Francisco, May 6th 2026
Panel moderation “EduTech, HRTech & Future of Work,” Startup Grind, Redwood City, April 29th 2026
Lecture block “Implementing AI in Organizations II Execution, Diagnostics & Decision Systems,” AI4Execs, WZUW, Warsaw, April 24th 2026
Organizer of the Future of Work Mixer + Open Demos #5: WorkTech, Agentic AI & Robotics, Tesla Showroom, San Francisco, April 21st 2026
Fifth edition of the Ontology of Value® Certification Day, online, April 9-10th 2026
Blitz-workshop “The Landscape of Post-PhD Career Tracks,” CPS Series, University of Groningen, April 1st 2026
Lecture block “Implementing Artificial Intelligence and Change Management,” AI4Execs, WZUW, Warsaw, March 20th 2026
Fourth edition of the Ontology of Value® Certification Day, online, February 27th 2026
Third edition of the Ontology of Value® Certification Day, Warsaw, January 30th 2026
Second edition of the Ontology of Value® Certification Day, San Francisco, January 23rd 2026
Co-organizer of the Future of Work Mixer + Open Demos #4: WorkTech, Agentic AI & Robotics, LongHouse SF, January 15th 2026
Panel moderation “The Future of Work for Healthcare Workers,” SF HealthTech Summit, San Francisco, January 14th 2026
Co-organizer of the second edition of Hyper Pitch Night, Warsaw, December 4th 2025
Inaugural Ontology of Value® Certification Day, Warsaw, November 14th 2025
Blitz workshop “The Landscape of Post-PhD Career Tracks,” Graduate School Neurosciences Amsterdam Rotterdam (ONWAR), Annual meeting, Zeist, October 31st 2025
Panel moderation “Can AI Understand What It Says? Meaning, Knowledge, and Machine Awareness,” Human Tech Summit, SWPS, Warsaw, November 21st 2025
Seminar “How university graduates can (and should!) discover their competitive advantage and consciously build market value in their professional careers,” The Faculty of Mathematics, University of Warsaw, November 14th 2025
Co-organizer of the Future of Work Social Mixer & Open Demos: WorkTech, Agentic AI & Robotics, Minna Gallery, October 26th 2025
Panel discussion “Hyper-personalized Education.” MOSaiC Alpha launch event, SF Tech Week, San Francisco, October 8th 2025
Mentorship of participating teams, 2025 NASA Space Apps Challenge, NASA AMES Center, Mountain View, October 4th-5th 2025
Workshop “How can young people consciously build their market value by discovering their competitive advantage in the job market,” Workflow 2025, Cavatina Hall, Bielsko-Biała, September 24th 2025
Co-organizer of the Future of Work Pitch Night #2: WorkTech, Agentic AI & Robotics, Minna Gallery, August 15th 2025
Panel “Building Tomorrow’s Entrepreneurs: Skills, Systems, and Strategic Thinking for Startup Success,” Create the Future Summit, San Francisco, August 14th 2025
Panel moderation “AI Agents & Autonomy in Practice,” GenAI Week, Santa Clara, July 17th 2025
Panel moderation “The Big Brain Theory: Scaling Agentic AI,” GenAI Week, Santa Clara, July 14th 2025
Lecture “My Story of Bootstrapping.” Disrupting the Disruptors: Masters of Bootstrap. San Francisco, July 11th 2025
Blitz workshop “What do you truly value in work? On the Ontology of Value.” Career Transition Conference: Design Your Future Career With AI + Web3, San Francisco, July 9th 2025
Blitz talk “AI Took My Job — But Gave Me a Paycheck? On the Post-Labor Economics.” Women in Tech Summit, Warsaw, June 5th 2026
Co-organizer of the first edition of Hyper Pitch Night, Warsaw, June 4th 2025
Lecture “Unlocking the Future of Work: Redefining Success in the Age of AI. Part 2.” AI4Execs, WZUW, Warsaw, June 6th 2025
Talk “Knowledge Is Power: How To Stay Free in the Age of AI.” TEDx Milpitas, May 18th 2025
Co-organizer of the Future of Work Pitch Night: Agentic AI & HR Tech, JLL Spaces, April 25th 2025
Workshop “Universal Basic Income: The End of Work or a New Beginning?” Venture Cafe Warsaw, April 17th 2025
Workshop “The Future of Work: What is Success in the Age of AI,” Dom Kultury Kolorowa, Ursus, Warsaw, April 16th 2025
Lecture “Unlocking the Future of Work: Redefining Success in the Age of AI. Part 1.” AI4Execs, WZUW, Warsaw, April 11th 2025
Workshop “The Landscape of Career Tracks for Knowledge Workers,” Dharamshala, India, March 9th 2025
Workshop “Unlocking the Future of Work: Redefining Success in the Age of AI,” Venture Cafe Warsaw, Warsaw, January 16th 2025
Workshop “How To Develop Your Potential & Achieve Professional Excellence in the Age of AI,” AI x The Future of Work event, Digital Garage, San Francisco, December 13th 2024
Workshop “Jak w czasach AI rozwinąć swój potencjał i osiągnąć doskonałość zawodową,” (in Polish), Tech MeetING #11, ING Bank, December 10th 2024
Workshop “How To Develop Your Potential & Achieve Professional Excellence in the Age of AI,” San Francisco State University, November 4th 2024
Workshop “How To Develop Your Potential & Achieve Professional Excellence in the Age of AI,” AI x The Future of Work Event, General Lithium HQ, November 1st 2024
Workshop “How to Develop Your Potential and Achieve Professional Excellence in the Age of AI,” Hacker Dojo, Mountain View, October 26th 2024
Talk “Job Market in Tech AD 2024: Facts, Myths, and Useful Hacks,” NASA Space Apps Challenge, Hacker Dojo, Mountain View, October 5th 2024
Workshop “Jak Wytyczać Sobie Nowe Horyzonty na Rynku Pracy AD 2024: Nawigacja na Złożonym Rynku Pracy w Czasach AI,” Venture Cafe Warsaw, Warsaw, September 5th 2024
Talk “How AI Resembles Human Brain and How It Shapes the Global Labor Market,” The Future of Work event, San Francisco, June 25th 2024
Seminar “A Glimpse Into the Future: How AI Shapes the Economy and How To Reach Professional Excellence in the AI Era,” AI Ethics and Applications Club, Acalanes High School, Lafayette, CA, April 25th 2024
Speed-workshop “The Landscape of Post-PhD Career Tracks,” CPS Series, University of Groningen, April 19th 2024
Series of lectures “Ontology of Value: About the Individual Profile of Motivation and Value Creation and How to Use This Profile to Achieve Rapid Personal Development,” Wyższa Szkoła Nauk Pedagogicznych, Warsaw, April 13th 2024
Talk “Safety or Freedom? How To Create Value as a Professional and Choose an Optimal Career Track,” SGGW Job Fairs, SGGW, Warsaw, March 20th 2024
Co-organizer of the first edition of Masovian AI Fest, a conference dedicated to finding synergies between the business and academic worlds around AI in Poland, February 29th 2024
Talk “How To Self-Navigate as a Professional? The Laws of Gravity in the Job Market,” University of Warsaw, March 13th 2024
Speed-workshop “The Landscape of Post-PhD Career Tracks,” Groningen University, January 25th 2024
Speed-workshop “The Landscape of Post-PhD Career Tracks,” G.E.N.E. Centre, University of Paris-Saclay, December 18th 2023
Panelist at the discussion panel “The Great Job Market AI-vasion: Are You Ready,” HackerDojo, Mountain View, November 20th 2023
Talk “Perspectives on the Future of the Job Market in Times of AI” at the AGI BUZZ Conference 2023, CELO HQ, San Francisco, November 18th 2023
Talk “Are we Doomed? AI and Your Job” at the Innovation Algebra online meeting, October 27th 2023
Talk “How Will AI Influence the Job Market?” at the “RAD Talks #1“, Silkroad Innovation Hub, Palo Alto, October 5th 2023
Panelist at the discussion panel “Female Gaze: Careers in Science and Entrepreneurship” at the Science: Polish Perspectives Meetup by the Polonium Foundation, Paris June 18th-19th 2023
Workshop “From Layoff to Liftoff: Boost Your Career in Tech,” NoiseBridge Hackerspace, May 12th 2023
Talk “Self-navigating as a Woman in Tech in Times of AI: Navigating Career Challenges and Opportunities,” Silicon Valley International Women Day #DareToBe, Google Developer Groups Silicon Valley, April 28th 2023
Speed-workshop “The Landscape of Post-PhD Career Tracks,” CPS Series, University of Groningen, April 21st 2023
Talk “Ontology of Value®: A New Framework To Discover Your Natural Way of Creating Value as a Professional,” Konsortium UNIVERSEH Seminar, AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, April 17th 2023
Speed-workshop “Safety or Freedom? Career Building for Software Developers,” Pacific Hackers Association Meetup, Hacker Dojo, Mountain View, March 25th 2023
Lightning Talk “Hacks from a Bootstrapping Entrepreneur,” Hacker Dojo, Mountain View, February 24th 2023
Speed-workshop “The Landscape of Post-PhD Career Tracks,” G.E.N.E. Centre, University of Paris-Saclay, December 7th 2022
Team Building Workshop For Startupers, Academic Innovation Incubator, Jagiellonian University, October 22nd 2022
Speed-workshop “The Landscape of Post-PhD Career Tracks,” Brainhack Kraków, October 21st 2022
Workshop “Career Development Workshop by Ontology of Value (Full Day),” Hacker Dojo, September 17th 2022
Workshop “Team-Building Workshop For Startups,” Hacker Dojo, September 10th 2022
Speed-workshop “Effective Self-Management for Early Career Researchers in the Natural and Life Sciences,” Princeton University, June 29th 2022
Speed-workshop “The Landscape of Post-PhD Career Tracks, part 2,” KU Leuven University, May 10th 2022
Speed-workshop “The Landscape of Post-PhD Career Tracks,” Groningen University, April 22nd 2022
Speed-workshop “The Landscape of Career Tracks In the Today’s Job Market,” Innovation for Health Conference, April 21st 2022
Speed-workshop “The Landscape of Post-PhD Career Tracks, part 1,” KU Leuven University, March 28th 2022
Presentation “On My Own Transition From Academia To Industry”, Rookie Meeting, University of Twente, February 9th 2022
Speed-workshop “The Landscape of Post-PhD Career Tracks,” G.E.N.E. Centre, University of Paris-Saclay, December 8th 2021
Speed-workshop “The Landscape of Post-PhD Career Tracks,” University of Cologne, September 10th 2021
“Career Pathways In Academia and Industry” Panel, OHBM Australia, July 20th 2021
Speed-workshop “The Ontology of Value®: How To Discover Your Natural Way Of Building Value in the Job Market,” PhD Day, University of Groningen, June 4th 2021
Speed-workshop “The Landscape of Post-PhD Career Tracks,” CPS Outside Academia Series, University of Groningen, February 19th 2021
Q&A, the Teaching and Entrepreneurship panel, PhD Activating Career Event (PhACE), Utrecht University, the Netherlands, February 8th-9th 2021
Talk “Common questions on making a career switch,” LOT Winter School, Radboud University, January 21st 2021
Speed-workshop “The Landscape of Post-PhD Career Tracks,” EUR G.E.N.E. Center, University of Paris, December 17th 2020 (ed. #2)
Speed-workshop “The Landscape of Post-PhD Career Tracks,” EUR G.E.N.E. Center, University of Paris, December 10th 2020 (ed. #1)
Talk “Reflections after 14 years of blogging,” Bioroom Science Communications Event, November 20th 2020, recording available HERE
Talk “Common questions on making a career switch,” CPS Outside Academia Series, University of Groningen, October 9th 2020
Talk “On the similarities and differences between research and entrepreneurship,”Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting, July 31st 2020, recording available HERE
Speed-workshop “The Landscape of Post-PhD Career Tracks,” Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting, July 10th 2020, recording available HERE
March 10th, 2020: Tech Tuesday Utrecht, a talk: PhD students on the job market
March 9th, 2020: #Crossroads Career Event, Radboud University, Nijmegen, keynote talk: What to choose: PhD or industry?
January 21st, 2020: Open MR Benelux event, Nijmegen, a talk: Where to Go Next? The Landscape of Post-PhD Career Tracks
October 30th, 2019: Avengers for Better Science event, Leiden, talks Self-management & Mentoring and Transferable skills & moving outside academia
October 4th, 2019: Brainhack Zurich 2019, a workshop: What next? The landscape of post-PhD career tracks
June 13th, 2019, Rome, Italy, Organization for Human Brain Mapping annual meeting, workshop “Looking for Jobs Outside of Academia,” a talk: The job market landscape for PhDs
June 7th, 2019, Maastricht, the Netherlands: Medical Genetics Center (MGC) Workshop 2019, keynote lecture: Self-management for early career researchers in the natural sciences
March 19th, 2019, Hilversum, the Netherlands: ICT.Open 2019, skills workshop: Self-management for early career researchers
March 2nd, 2019: Brainhack Warsaw 2019, a talk: Open mentoring
January 16th, 2019: OpenMR Benelux event, Leiden, the Netherlands, a talk: Sharing is caring: how mentoring and open science come together to equalize chances for career development in academia
November 25th 2017: Aspects of Neuroscience international conference at the University of Warsaw, Warsaw, a talk: Causality in functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
November 22nd, 2017: the Department of Neurophysiology at the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, invited seminar: The landscape after the Brainhack – on the results and impressions after the first AoN Brainhack Warsaw
September 25th, 2017: Coupling and Causality in Complex Systems, international conference at the University of Cologne, Germany, a talk: Causality in functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
November 29th, 2016: TACTICS Consortium General Meeting, Fuertaventura, symposium talk: Momentum: a new, joint nonparametric pipeline for signal detection and causal inference in fMRI
November 11th, 2016: Donders Discussions, international PhD student conference, a talk: Pitfalls of causal research in fMRI
June 6th, 2016: XXXVI Dynamics Days Europe, Corfu, Greece, a conference talk: Causal connectome of the human brain: how do the large-scale networks communicate?
April 29th, 2016: European Meeting of Neuroscience by PhD students, 2nd Edition, Grenoble, France, an opening conference talk: Searching for causal networks in the brain
November 5th, 2015: Donders Discussions, international PhD student conference, a talk: Causal research in fMRI
May 14th, 2015: Facultad de Matemática, Astronomía, Física y Computación, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Cordoba, Argentina, invited seminar: Causal research in fMRI
April 14th, 2015: University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, an invited seminar: Causal research in fMRI
July 30th, 2014: Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece: Dos and don’ts in the causal research in fMRI
HACKATHONS
➣ Judge, Fun Hackathon Weekend, Hacker Dojo, Mountain View, August 2nd-4th 2024
➣ Team leader of the project “Large Language Models vs Human Cerebral Cortex: Similarities, Differences, and their Consequences” at Brainhack Warsaw 2024
➣ Judge, Hackathon for Peace (online, over 1,000 submissions), February 10th 2024
➣ Co-Founder & Secretary of Hackademia, (2018), an initiative around Radboud University Nijmegen and the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, aiming at bridging between startups and researchers in a form of hackathon projects.
➣ Co-organizer and Team leader of the project “Functional connectivity research: can we find a common ground?” at AoN Brainhack Warsaw 2017
CONFERENCE POSTERS
July 9th, 2018: FENS Forum Berlin: a poster ‘Thresholding functional connectomes in functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging using Mixture Modeling’
June 17th-21st, 2018: Organization for Human Brain Mapping annual meeting, Singapore, posters: Thresholding functional connectomes in functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging using Mixture Modeling and A new approach to robust effective connectivity estimation using fractional cumulants
October 15th, 2017: World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics, Orlando, USA, a poster: From functional to causal genomics: on the directed interactions in a gene-coexpression network underlying Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
June 29th, 2016: OHBM conference, Geneva, Switzerland, a poster: Momentum: A new method for causal inference in functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
June 17th, 2015: OHBM conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, a poster: An information Theoretic View on Causal Modeling in fMRI
December 11th, 2014: BrainModes international conference, London, a poster: Insights into causal inference in fMRI by means of Dynamic Causal Modeling
June 28th, 2011: 8th European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology, and Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology, Kraków, Poland, a poster: Delay can stabilise: population and love affairs dynamics
April 1st, 2011: 13th International Neuroscience Winter Conference, Soelden, Austria, posters: Increased analytical thinking in depression and Perspectives on Research on Depressive Realism Phenomenon
OTHER SEMINAR WORK
Bielczyk, N. (2019, November 27th). Proof of Mind. https://medium.com/@natalia.bielczyk1/proof-of-mind-620280b45f8e
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
August 2019: personal Mozilla Scholarship (1,500 USD + covering travel costs) to attend Mozilla Fest in London, October 25-27, 2019
September 2017: Womanium Neuro Scholars Scholarship within the Elemental Woman in STEM+Entrepreneurship mentoring programme:
June, 2016: Young Researchers Award (+600Eur prize) at the XXXVI Dynamics Days Europe, Corfu, Greece, for a conference talk: Causal connectome of the human brain: how do the large-scale networks communicate?
2006-2007 – academic scholarship of the College of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences (for 10-15% of students with highest GPA)
2002 – Scholarship of the Prime Minister of Poland for excelling high school students
GRANTS
Mozilla Open Science Mini Grant, for the project entitled Avengers for Better Science (https://avengers-for-better-science.github.io/): a retreat organized to support young researchers committed to building an inclusive, open and ethical academia
FENS-IBRO/PERC Travel Grant for attending FENS Forum Berlin, July 7th-11th, 2018 (750 EUR)
IBRO International Travel Grant for research related travel, January, 1st – June 30th, 2018 (1,800 EUR)
IBRO-PERC Financial Support of Workshops, Symposia and Meetings 2017, for organizing AoN Brainhack Warsaw, November 17th-19th 2017 (4,000 EUR)
Radboud Internationalisation Grant for Outgoing PhD candidates 2017, for attending World Congress of Psychiatry Genetics meeting, WCPG, Orlando, USA (700 EUR)
Radboud Internationalisation Grant for Outgoing PhD candidates 2016, for attending Organisation of Human Brain Mapping, OHBM, Geneva, Switzerland (400 EUR)
SUMMER SCHOOLS / FELLOWSHIPS / INTERNSHIPS
August 28 – September 2, 2017: 10th Advanced Scientific Programming in Python, G-Node, Municipality of Sithonia, Greece
January 13th – 30th, 2014: 3rd LACONEU summer school in Computational Neuroscience, Valparaiso, Chile; research project: Turing patterns in spiking neural networks and in neural fields
July 30th – August 24th, 2012: 17th Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience, FENS-IBRO Training Centre, Będlewo, Poland, research project: nonlinear computation by neural networks
July 14th – 31st, 2012: 3rd Cold Spring Harbor Summer School in Computational Neuroscience, Beijing, China; research project: Impact of structural motifs on synchrony in neural networks
August 9th – September 8th, 2010: internship in R&D Department of Laboratory & Co., company specialized in neuromarketing, research project: Implementation of LORETA to the EEG datasets
July 1st – September 6th, 2008: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship(SURF) at California Institute of Technology, an eye-tracking project: Are Animal Eyes Avoided by Individuals with Autism? under the supervision of prof. Ralph Adolphs
OTHER SKILLS AND COMPETENCES
➣ Python / R / Matlab / LaTeX / basics of Git / basics of JavaScript
➣ Languages: Polish – native, English – proficient (CAE certificate), Dutch – basic
➣ Basiskwalificatie in Onderzoekstages (BKO, professional Dutch academic teaching qualification), experience in supervising Bachelor and Master students
➣ Young Master of Business Administration title, obtained from Warsaw School of Economics, 2011
➣ Animal Laboratory Act (Article 9, obtained on March 17th, 2014, license no 685218), a professional Dutch qualification for animal laboratory research
➣ Driving license cat. B
SCIENCE POPULARIZATION / LEADERSHIP IN SCIENCE
➣ Blogging on science, business, labor market, and whereabouts: www.nataliabielczyk.com
➣ since May 2020: a member of Frontiers in Neuroscience Editorial Board as a Review Editor
➣ a member of the advisory board at the second edition of Brainhack Warsaw, March 1st-3rd 2019: https://brainhackwarsaw.github.io/
➣ a member of the advisory board at the first edition of OpenMR Benelux event, Leiden, the Netherlands, January 16th, 2019: https://openmrbenelux.github.io/
➣ a Twitter Ambassador for the FENS Forum, Berlin July 7th-11th 2018
➣ Career Development and Mentoring Manager within the OHBM Student and Postdoc Special Interest Group 2017-2019: www.ohbmtrainees.com:
[a] co-organiser and co-chair at the annual symposium on mentorship and career development “The Secrets behind Success” during the OHBM Annual Meeting, Singapore 15th-19th, 2018
[b] coordinator of the International Online Mentorship Programme by the OHBM Student and Postdoc Special Interest Group, 2017-2019
[c] blogger for the OHBM Student and Postdoc Special Interest Group blog: www.ohbmtrainees.com/blog
➣ a member of the advisory board at the first edition of Brainhack Networks, Paris, France, June 9th-10th 2018: http://brainhack-networks.com/, a project leader for the project: ‘Trends in the resting brain‘
➣ the Founder and co-organizer of AoN Brainhack Warsaw 2017, the satellite event of the international PhD student conference Aspects of Neuroscience, Warsaw, Poland, November 18th-19th 2017: https://brainhackwarsaw2017.github.io/, a project leader for the project: ‘Functional connectivity: can we find a common ground?’
➣ an ad-hoc reviewer for NeuroImage, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Neural Networks, Network Neuroscience, PLoS One, Brain Structure and Function, European Neuropsychopharmacology, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Brain Topography, Peeriodicals
➣ an organizer of Frontiers in Network discovery session at the Donders Discussions international PhD student conference 2015, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
➣ a founder of Causality Club: an informal discussion panel at the Donders Institute
➣ 2012-2015: a member of the PhD student council at the Donders Centre for Neuroscience (DCN), a chairperson 2014-2015
HOBBIES
global economy / investments in the stock exchange and real estate / hiking / dance / gardening / blogging / journalism