Career options for Biophysics major?

[denjay]

This is another one if those "if I do this then what can I do" type question.

If I go into graduate school for Biophysics and earn a PhD, what type of career can I expect?

Would it just be restricted to academia? Would I have to stick with being a post-doc for a long time? Biophysics heavily uses numerical methods and computations (relative to other subjects I believe), could these skills be used and more importantly recognized by other employers?

Any answer is helpful really.

Thanks in advance.

 

[pandasbox]

Have you considered bioinformatics? I looked into it a while back, it's relevant to many fields of biology such as analyzing protein structure, evolution, genetics, biochemical interactions, and large-data analysis.

 

[Choppy]

The biophysics people I knew mostly went into pharmacokinetic modeling in the pharmaceutical industry.

 

[denjay]

The biophysics people I knew mostly went into pharmacokinetic modeling in the pharmaceutical industry.

Interesting. Had no idea about this.

But I guess my main question would be this: if I went and got a PhD in Biophysics or a related field that is heavily reliant on computations (ie. Computational Physics), then would the computational skills learned doing this give me an edge in employment?