Sophie Bouccara

Researcher

bouccara@adoc-tm.com

Sophie is particularly interested in understanding the professional trajectories of PhD holders across different sectors, exploring how doctoral graduates navigate their careers within academia, industry, and beyond. She also focuses on the evolution of skills and competencies over time, investigating how transferable skills acquired during a PhD are applied and developed in various professional contexts. Additionally, Sophie examines recruitment processes, with a focus on how different sectors approach the hiring of PhD graduates and how these practices can be optimized to better align talent with opportunity. Across all of these areas, she pays special attention to the European context, exploring how career paths, skills development, and recruitment practices vary across European countries.

Sophie studied physics at university and completed a PhD in applied physics within a multidisciplinary team working on nanoparticles for biological applications. After her PhD, as a postdoctoral researcher, she shifted her focus to neuroscience, investigating the impact of social isolation on social behaviors, communication and the neuronal populations of the prefrontal cortex using cutting-edge brain exploration technologies. Upon returning to France, she joined Adoc as a recruitment consultant, trainer, and researcher, allowing her to engage in all the activities she is passionate about.

  • Physics for first year medical school
  • Optics for first year bachelor in biology
  • Teaching assistant in a microscopy for neuroscience summer school
  • Physics teacher for 6th grade students
  • Science and mathematics teacher for first and second grade students in a bilingual school
  • Trainings in Adoc Talent Management: identify and valorize your skills, building and optimizing your resume, define your career path 
  • in progress