My current role: Currently I am employed as Assist. Prof. at the Faculty of Computer Science and IT. Moreover I hold the position of head of the research unit and vice-dean of the faculty. Active member of the UMT incubator and the Albanian startup community.
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The PhD school completely changed my career perspective as it opened a new window into the academia. Since my graduation I am working as a university lecturer and without the PhD school this would not have been possible. The PhD study provides the student with several abilities such as: critical thinking, autonomy, self-confidence, time and resource managerial skills, presentation and public speaking skills, and many others. Often, industry does not give the appropriate value to the PhD study as they think this path does not provide technical/hands on skills to the candidate. To my experience, the PhD study enabled me to acquire deep knowledge on a specific research field, but most important, I gained the ability to adapt to any problem and circumstances, and provide steady and long term solution.
I would like to share something that happened before I started the PhD school. At that time I was working for a software house. Once I got accepted to the PhD school I shared the news with my boss and informed him that I was planning to quit. His reaction was “Oh, so for the next three years you will be on holidays!”. At that moment I realized the perception of industry about the PhD study
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