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Dear postdocs and late-stage PhD students, Welcome to the September issue of our monthly GAUSS Career Service Newsletter. We provide you with information on events and courses organized by the GAUSS Career Service (and other providers on Göttingen Campus), funding calls, and job opportunities. If you require a 1-2-1 career counselling session or CV/Application check please book your appointment via email. We also feature in this newsletter some information on the Postdoc Appreciation Week, which will take place 19-23 September with events across Germany for Postdocs. On the GAUSS Webpage you will find COVID-19 relevant information and measures taken by GAUSS and GGNB. Furthermore you will find a guide to "Corona-test positive? What happens next" by the university. Please feel free to forward this e-mail to your peers who might be interested in the information but are not yet on our mailing list (register here). If you do not want to receive the newsletter anymore, please let us know and we will remove you from the mailing list. All the best,
the GAUSS Career Service Team
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Postdoc Appreciation Week (19-23 September 2022)
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As part of Postdoc Appreciation Week (PAW), Universities, research centres and networks across Germany are coming together to celebrate the outstanding contributions that Postdocs make to research, teaching, administration and much more. There are many online events open to all researchers as part of PAW, which runs from 19 to 23 September. Göttingen Campus Postdoc Network is part of the … Read more... |
Career Workshops and Events
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We’re happy to announce our first GAUSS Career Impulse Session on academic careers this year with Group Leader Dr Sinem Saka (EMBL, Heidelberg). Read more... |
We’re happy to announce our first GAUSS Career Impulse Session on academic careers this year with Clinical Project Manager Dr Marco Becker (AstraZeneca). Read more... |
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service online workshop “How to plan and write a competitive research proposal” by Dr. Thomas Koch. This workshop is intended for postdoctoral researchers and late-stage PhD students who are new to the process of applying for a scientific research grant. Ideally, participants should plan to start applying for a grant within the next 6 months. Therefore, it is crucial that you already have an idea about the research topic and possible funding bodies. Read more... |
Explore entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship as career paths after graduation. Using the methodology of design thinking, we will try out techniques for idea generation and learn what makes a good idea and how to formulate it for a convincing pitch. The workshop is free of charge and requires no prior knowledge. The online workshop will take place via zoom between 9:00 … Read more... |
The Equal Opportunities and Diversity Unit announces a workshop on self-defencse and self-assertion for women. For a detailed descirption of the workshop please see below. The course will be held in German and English. Discussions will be held in a way that enables participation in both languages. The course is open to all female university staff and students and especially addresses international students and teaching /research staff, as well as women with migration background. Read more... |
The Hochschuldidaktik of the University Göttingen is organizing a online workshop in English on the topic "Supervising PhD students (in Natural and Experimental Sciences". It will take place on Friday, 21 Oct 2022 9am - 5pm. Places are limited so please apply as soon as possible via this link. Read more... |
The University of Göttingen is organising its first RecruitingDinner for students, alumni and postdocs as well as companies to offer them the opportunity to get to know each other over a good meal in a relaxed atmosphere. Be part of it on 24 November 2022! Take the opportunity to present yourself and your company to a selected group of highly … Read more... |
Kick-start your career in European Life Sciences! Are you interested to pursue your career in the European Life Sciences industry and do you want to gain more insight in important business topics? Then, join the virtual BioBusiness Winter School from 13-15 February 2023. Read more... |
Funding Opportunities and Prizes
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The DFG is offering a variety of funding opportunities for all career stages between doctorate and professorship. To learn more about schemes suitable for postdocs join their online talk series "Prospects". Some talks are more like an overview and other talks are quite specific focusing only on one funding scheme.You will also get advice on how to prepare your proposal for the review process. PhD candidates and postdocs of all disciplines are welcome to join. Some talks are in English and some only in German. Check out the list below for the upcoming talks: Read more... |
The European Liaison Office of the German Research Organizations (KoWi) together with the University of Siegen is organising the information day "Research in Europe" for junior researchers on 10 November 2022. Through various lectures and exhibition booths, the institutions participating in the event will inform those interested in doctoral studies, doctoral candidates, postdocs, and professors who would like to obtain information for their own junior researchers, about (individual) funding programmes for a national or international career in science (academic and non-academic). Read more... |
Every year, the Daimler and Benz Foundation awards twelve scholarships to exceptional postdoctoral students, assistant professors, and young managers of new research projects. Their goal is to support the autonomy and creativity of the next generation of academics and to help committed researchers as they begin their postdoctoral academic careers. The recipients receive scholarships of €40,000 for two years to finance research assistants, technical equipment, research trips and attendance at conferences. The call will close at midnight on 1 October 2022. Read more... |
A University publication fund can cover costs for open access journals but the options for publishing grow ever more complex every year. This makes it hard for researchers to maintain an overview, even though publishing is key to their career. This training will give you an overview of the current options and answer your questions. The SUB Göttingen is organising … Read more... |
ERC Starting Grants (up to 5 years and € 1.5 million) are designed to support talented early-career scientist who have already produced excellent supervised work, are ready to work independently and show potential to be a research leader. Researchers of any nationality with 2-7 years of experience since completion of PhD (Extensions are possible under certain circumstances — see the latest ERC Work Programme), a scientific track record showing great promise and an excellent research proposal. Research must be conducted in a public or private research organisation (known as a Host Institution/HI). It could be the HI where the applicant already works, or any other HI located in one of the EU Member States or Associated Countries. Read more... |
The Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize, named after the physicist and former president of the DFG, is an accolade for early career researchers and provides further incentive for excellent achievements in their research work. The prize has been awarded since 1977 and is open to all research fields. Besides honouring excellent research achievements the prize is intended to assist in furthering scientific careers. There are ten prizes of € 200,000 each whereas the prize money can be spent for research purposes only up to three years. The deadline to be nominated is 22 Oct 2022. For further information on the nomination process and the selection criteria see below. Read more... |
The Volkswagen Foundation wants to offer experimental spaces for fundamental innovations and significant improvements in all areas of the (German) research system. To this end, the Foundation will fund promising ideas for pioneer projects from the academic community. Available are 500,000€ for max. 3 years per project. Eigible to apply are PhDs, professor and academic administrators at German universities and research institutes. The upcoming deadlines are 31 October 2022 and 31 March 2023. For further information see below. Read more... |
Within the framework of "Research on Science", the Volkswagen Foundation offers funding for workshops and summer schools that aim to reflect, combine, and experiment with the various methodological approaches or theoretical challenges in the area of research on research. Respective events are meant to introduce early career researchers from various disciplines to research on research and to enhance the participants’ skills and knowledge in this area. This funding scheme is designed to strengthen research on research as an interdisciplinary and methodologically diverse research field and to build up and expand respective expertise, especially among early career researchers in Germany. Read more... |
The USC Stem Cell Postdoctoral Fellows Program invites applications from recent and upcoming PhD graduates. As part of USC’s vibrant stem cell community, postdoctoral fellows will accelerate their scientific and career development through a structured mentoring plan, training on research-related and transferable skills, and faculty-led preparation for successful careers in academia or industry. Fellowships will be awarded after matching with a host laboratory from USC’s Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. Apply by 15 November 2022! Read more... |
The Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowships offer generous funding and personalized support to outstanding scientists and scholars in any academic discipline. Leading Israeli universities, renowned centers of science, scholarship and innovation, provide Azrieli Fellows with a great academic experience. Applications must be submitted by November 15, 2022. The fellowship – now open to applicants from around the globe – offers funding of approximately EUR 58,000 (ILS 188,000) for 24 postdocs per year. Azrieli Postdoctoral Fellows can conduct research in any academic discipline at eligible institutions in Israel. Read more... |
The Christiane Nüsslein-Vollhard (CNV) Foundation is aiming for the advancement of science and to facilitate the progress of highly qualified women with children. We especially aim to support excellent graduate students and postdoctoral fellows by providing them with funds to be used for additional childcare and domestic help (1 year, monthly 400 €). The Foundation intends this contribution to enable young mothers to gain greater flexibility and time for their scientific work. We hope, by way of our Foundation, to contribute to advance more highly qualified women in Germany's leading scientific research. Read more... |
ThermoFisher Scientific is hiring and looking for a LIMS Specialist located in Germany, Austria or Switzerland (Remote/Field). For further information check out the job advert here (Job ID: 211182BR). Read more... |
Pfizer is hiring at their site in Freiburg and there are several potentially interesting posts available (see below). One of our alumni - Dr. Cindy Wechsler who was our speaker at the last Career Impulse Session in May - is working at Pfizer in Freiburg and if you would like to contact her, please send us an e-mail (career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de). Read more... |
Evotec is currently advertising an interesting position in Transcriptomics at their site in Göttingen. It is a full-time and permanent post. For further details check out the job advert here. Read more... |
Dear mothers and scientists, you may have already heard about the book "Mutterschaft und Wissenschaft" and maybe you even want to join the associated network (https://www.mutterschaft-wissenschaft.de)? The network is suitable for all who identify as mothers and who work in science, want to network, inform and exchange ideas. My name is Sandra, I am a mom of 2 children and … Read more... |
As you may already know, this year's Mental Health Awareness Week (MHAW) will take place from Mon. Oct. 10 to Fri. Oct. 14 via ZOOM: https://www.postdocnet.mpg.de/mental-health-awareness-week-2022.html This MPG-wide event is a collaborative effort of the Mental Health Collective (MHC), BGM Network, Administrative Headquarters, PostdocNet, PhDNet, and many other MPG-internal and MPG-external institutions and advocacy groups. #BreakTheStigma messages (anonymous) Please leave … Read more... |
Starting Tuesday, 30.08.2022, there will be a Covid-19 vaccination offer of the City of Göttingen/Public Health Department in the Physics building on the North Campus (Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, foyer, niche next to the elevators). This vaccination offer will take place weekly on Tuesdays between 10 am - 3 pm until 31.03.2023. Read more... |
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