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Dear postdocs and late-stage PhD students, Welcome to the first issue of our monthly GAUSS Career Service Newsletter in 2023. As usual we provide you with information on events and courses organized by the GAUSS Career Service, funding calls, and job opportunities. Please be aware that this time there are some job adverts and workshop with very tight deadlines over the next few days.
If you are unsure about your next career steps or require some support in your job application process (academic or non-academic), book an individual career counseling session or CV/application check by emailing Stefanie (career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de)
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, Stefanie and Christin
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Career Workshops and Events
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We are happy to announce our first GAUSS Career Impulse Session in 2023 with Head of Data Science Dr Martin Helm (Vilua). Date: Friday, 20 January 2023 Time: 14:00-15:30 (appr.) Location: online via Zoom Registration:To sign up please send an email to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de. Read more...
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We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service Workshop "Exploring the Unknown - The Company World" by Dr. Gaby Schilling. This workshop is designed for postdoctoral scientists and late-stage PhD students who are currently applying or planning to apply for a position in industry. Getting to know different departments and their functions in a company and reflect about whether related jobs could be a good fit for your interests and profile are the goals of this workshop. Dates: Monday and Tuesday, 13-14 February 2023 Duration: Monday, 13 February 2023, 9:00-17:00h and Tuesday, 14 February 2023, 9:00-15:30h Location: GZMB building, large seminar room 0.232, ground floor, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11 (map) Trainer: Dr. Gaby Schilling Registration: Please register here and send an email to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de including a short statement on your motivation to attend the workshop. Read more...
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We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshop “Interview Training for Postdocs” by Christelle Linsenmann. Are you currently working as Postdoc or finalizing your PhD? Do you plan to transition to a position outside of academia, potentially in industry, but you feel unprepared for searching and finding a new position? In this workshop, you will learn and practice career development strategies with a focus on leaving a great impression in your job interview. Dates: Thursday and Friday, 16-17 March 2023 Duration: Thursday, 16 March 2023, 13-16h and Friday, 17 March 2023, 9-16h Location: GZMB building, large seminar room 0.232, ground floor, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11 (map) Trainer: Christelle Linsenmann Registration: Please register here and send an email to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de including a short statement on your motivation to attend the workshop. Read more...
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We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshop “Third-party funding and proposal writing” by Dr. Neela Enke. This workshop is intended for Postdocs and late-stage PhDs planning to apply for a research grant within the next 6 months. Date: Monday, 20 March 2023, 9:30-17:00h Location: GZMB building, large seminar room 0.232, ground floor, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11 (map) Trainer: Dr. Neela Enke Registration: Please register here and send an email to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de including a short statement on your motivation to attend the workshop. Read more...
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This short online Active Bystander training session aims to help our PhD Student community to challenge poor behaviours, which may have become normalised over time. The session includes self-coaching techniques to help you keep a cool head when you’re faced with a challenging situation - and assertive language devices which you can use to make sure your voice is heard if you want to raise a concern. For more information on the training please see the link. www.activebystander.co.uk. The training will take place online on 3 February 2023, 15.00-16.30h. Registration: Email to ggnb@gwdg.de including the prework latest by 18 January 2023. Read more...
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Melissa Sollich (Coordinator of the Postdoc Network of the Göttingen Campus) just announced the date of the next Postdoc Support and Information Fair, which will take place on 16 March 2023 in the afternoon. For further details see Melissa's message below (please also get back to her if you have any ideas what you would like to have there etc.). Read more...
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The Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden is organising an online info event in German on how to apply for a HAW Professorship especially concerning the required application documents. The event will take place on 19 January 2023 at 16:00-16:30h. Please register by emailing Anne Voss (anne.voss@htw-dresden.de). Read more...
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The German government is organizing its 18th Career Fair International Organizations this year, which again will take place online on 26 January 2023. You can find out about work and career opportunities in direct contact with representatives of around 60 organizations and institutions at virtual exhibition stands, in live discussion forums and other formats. The career opportunities are as varied and diverse as the organizations themselves. They are open to those interested in political science and economics, but also in law, engineering and cultural studies, as well as architecture, computer science, chemistry, meteorology, physics, forestry and agriculture, medicine and many other fields. Read more...
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From 11-16 June 2023 the 13th edition of the Merck Innovation Cup will take place near Frankfurt, Germany. Join the students and young professionals from all over the world to meet at the Merck KGaA company headquarters to learn from professionals, network, develop business plans and win the 20,000 EUR Innovation Cup. If you are a post-graduate student or young professional apply latest by 31 January 2023. The travel and accommodation expanses will be covered by Merck. Read more...
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Lecture Series: Perspectives on / for the Junior Faculty DGJ – The Association for Modern Career Paths in Science Networking of scientists on the way to a professorship? Public exchange of ideas and discussions on a sustainable science system? Advocating for a better perception of junior professors in the science system?
The "Deutsche Gesellschaft Juniorprofessur (DGJ)" does all this and … Read more...
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This online workshop (in English) is predominantly for PhD students of the GGG, but other PhD students are very welcome if free places are available - so take your chance and register now. The teaching will be in the form of short interactive seminars, with breaks and games for students and time for questions and answers. It will give researchers … Read more...
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The Research and Transfer Services of the University of Göttingen in cooperation with the Falling Walls Foundation and the "Young Entrepreneurs in Science" (YES) are organising two workshops on Transfer and Start Up topics next spring. Both workshops are aimed at PhD students and postdocs and will be held in English lasting for 2.5h. For further details please see below. Read more...
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The jobvector career day is Europe´s biggest career fair for Natural Scientists, Physicians, Engineers, and Computer Scientists where you can receive valuable information for a successful career! Be inspired by talks of top companies and recruiters. Seize your chance and personally contact them at the fair! Read more...
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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...
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Funding Opportunities and Prizes
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The Schering Stiftung awards the Friedmund Neumann Prize to young scientists for outstanding basic research in human biology, organic chemistry or human medicine. The prize is directed at young scientists who have completed their dissertation and have already developed a distinctive scientific profile. The award aims to make visible excellent scientific achievement and thus help the prize winners establish themselves … Read more...
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The Fast Forward Science competition, which is endowed with a total of €23,000, is a joint project of Wissenschaft im Dialog and the Stifterverband and has been held annually since 2013. Passion for research, for innovative multimedia formats and for communication – the Fast Forward Science competition honors people who are not only passionate about science themselves, but who can also inspire others. Whether you are a student, postdoc, vlogger or communicator: We call you to produce social media posts about scientific topics and submit them to us. Read more...
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Have you written an outstanding dissertation and are you very keen to explain your research findings in a clear and comprehensible manner to a large number of people, including those not familiar with your subject? Then write an article about your work and enter it into the competition for the KlarText Award for Achievements in Public Understanding of Sciences. Through this prize, the Klaus Tschira Stiftung recognizes young researchers who explain their research results in a comprehensible manner in a popular science article in German. The call will close on 28 February 2023. Read more...
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The ETH Zurich Postdoctoral Fellowship programme (ETH Fellows) supports incoming postdoctoral researchers at ETH Zurich and is intended to foster young researchers who have already demonstrated scientific excellence in the early stages of their careers. The fellowship is for two years and you recieve a full-time post as well as substitutues for research expenses. Overall the success is 25% and you need to jointly apply with your potential host. For eligibility criteria and the application procedure see below. Read more...
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The program "Research Cooperation Lower Saxony - Israel" by the Volkswagen Foundation supports the long lasting cooperation of Israeli and Lower Saxon universities and research institutions by promoting scientifically excellent collaborative projects. Funding is provided (up to 3 years, up to 300,000€) for scientifically outstanding projects conducted jointly by researchers from Israel and Lower Saxony. To set impulses for new … Read more...
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The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has now published the information for the 27th call of the German-Israeli Project Cooperation. The project must be carried out as a close cooperation between Israeli and German project partners and include the exchange of scientists, especially early career researchers (PhDs/Postdocs), as well as adequate working conditions on both project sides for the entirety of the … Read more...
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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. Eligible to apply are PhDs, professor and academic administrators at German universities and research institutes. The next deadline is 31 March 2023. For further information see below. Read more...
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The Klaus Tschira Foundation is inviting applications for the Klaus Tschira Boost Fund supporting researchers in natural sciences, mathematics and computer science. The application deadline is the 31 March 2023. You are a scientist working at a German university or non-university research institution and want to make your research more flexible? Then this funding opportunity (80k€ for up to 2 yrs) could be for you! Register for the webinar on 27 January 2023 (4-5 pm) and find out more about the program & application process. Read more...
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The University of Würzburg is currently advertising two posts in science management. Both job adverts have tight deadlines on 16 January 2023 but the posts are really interesting and for 7 years. The JMU Research Academy (RA), founded in 2018, is looking for a Human Resources Developer (m/f/d; full-time) as soon as possible, in particular to supervise the 24 tenure-track … Read more...
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The University of Bremen is advertising for a postdoc position within the research group "Developmental and Educational Psychology". The contract would be for 3 years. For further details check out the job advert here. The closing date is 16 January 2023. Read more...
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The Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena is advertising for a very interesting science manager position (5 years) to support postdoctoral scientists. The Graduate Academy is a central scientific institution of the university under the direction of the Vice President for Young Scientists and Equality. The central task of the Graduate Academy is to support scientists in the doctoral and postdoc phase … Read more...
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The Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen is advertising for a science manager position in Science Management. Their Communications & Media team is looking for a new colleague with a background in natural sciences / science journalism, strong communication skills, great team spirit and an interest in biodiversity. The tasks are diverse, cover all areas of PR and … Read more...
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The University Medical Center (UMG) is looking for a Project Manager (m/f/d) for clinical studies on a full-time basis, initially for 2 years with the option of extension.The application deadline for this post is 15 February 2023 and you will find further information on the post and the study center at the UMG in the original... Read more...
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Growing up in Science (GUIS) was started in 2014 at New York University by professors Wei Ji Ma and Cristina Alberini. Now it runs worldwide in many universities and also in Berlin. Everyone in academia had to face struggles, detours, switching fields, and failures during their scientific career. However, sometimes when we look around at our colleagues and supervisors, we feel like their academic journeys were … Read more...
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