Dear postdocs and late-stage PhD students,

Welcome to the June issue of our monthly GAUSS Career Service Newsletter with information on workshops and events organized by the GAUSS Career Service (and other providers on Göttingen Campus or internationally), job opportunities as well as current funding calls.

The GAUSS Career Service Office will be closed for summer holidays from 20 July to 11 August. If you would like to book a career counselling session or application / CV check before our holidays, please schedule your appointment within the next 2 weeks by sending an email to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de.

Please feel free to forward this email to your peers who might be interested in the information provided but are not yet on our mailing list (register here). If you do not want to receive the newsletter anymore, please let me know and I will remove you from the mailing list.

All the best,
Stefanie

Career Workshops and Events

GAUSS Career Impulse Session "Is Consulting Pharma Companies the Right Career for You and How Can You Prepare for It?" with Dr. Ahmed Warda (IQVIA) on 21 June 2019

The GAUSS Career Service is happy to announce the next Career Impulse Session titled “Is Consulting Pharma Companies the Right Career for You and How Can You Prepare for It?” with Dr. Ahmed Warda from IQVIA. Working in consulting Pharmaceutical and healthcare companies with IQVIA since March 2018, Ahmed Warda has led over 50 team projects for top pharmaceutical companies …

GAUSS Career Impulse Session "How leaving your (scientific) comfort zone is a great way to start your career" with Dr. Lena Musiol (Miltenyi Biotec GmbH) on 19 July 2019

The GAUSS Career Service is happy to announce the next Career Impulse Session titled “How leaving your (scientific) comfort zone is a great way to start your career” with Dr. Lena Musiol from Miltenyi Biotec GmbH. Lena Musiol is an alumna of the IMPRS Molecular Biology and did her PhD in the lab of Blanche Schwappach. After finishing her PhD …

GAUSS Career Workshop: "Career Planning", 22-23 July 2019

We are happy to announce one of our new GAUSS Career Service workshops in 2019: “Career Planning” by Dr. Matthias Merkelbach. What are my unique abilities and interests critical in determining the right career path for me? Can I combine my ideas about a fulfilled life with a university career? You will discuss about that and develop a strategy for …

GAUSS Career Workshop: "Teams & Leadership", 21-22 August 2019

This workshop helps postdoctoral researchers to train their impact to be a good leader, develop and support their co-workers, and learn how to maintain a successful team in science. Dates: Wednesday and Thursday, 21-22 August 2019 Duration: 2 days, 9:00-16:30h Location: GZMB, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11, seminar room 0.233 (ground floor) Trainer: Dr. Alexander Schiller, Schiller & Mertens, Jena Registration: Please register …

Industry Excursion to Robert Bosch GmbH in Hildesheim (18 June 2019)

Take this opportunity and join the Industry Excursion to Robert Bosch GmbH in Hildesheim organised by SNIC. There are only few places left and the excursion will be in English! Robert Bosch GmbH is an international employer with a central technology location in Hildesheim to develop solutions for mobility of the future. There are five business devisions that are placed …

Fraunhofer AHEAD Program with Life Science Track in Göttingen (apply by 5 July 2019)

Starting in autumn 2019, the Fraunhofer AHEAD Accelerator Program will take place in Göttingen in cooperation with the Life Science Factory, initiated by Sartorius. Within the Life Science Track, the program provides individual support and is aimed at life science start-up teams from universities and research institutes, e.g. from the fields of drug development, diagnostics, medical technology and life science …

“Young Entrepreneurs in Science”-workshop (June & July 2019)

You are a postdocs or PhD student and want to take your career into your own hands, but you don’t have a business idea yet and lack inspiration? You would like to know how to turn your idea into reality and develop entrepreneurial skills? Then this 4-day workshop inclucing a company visit to B.Braun is for you! Develop your own …

Interested in Entrepreneurship? Check out the Start-up Support Program!

The Start-up-Support unit based at the university department “Cooperation and Innovation” is offering a versatile program over the summer to all on Göttingen Campus who are interested and curious about a potential entrepreneur career. Check out the different events below and for further information go to their webpage. Workshop Creative_innovative - With creativity to your own start-up idea You are …

Funding Opportunities and Prizes

Search Tool for Research Funding "UGOE 4 Research" - open access until 31 July 2019

If you are looking for grant schemes and opportunities to fund your research, check out this new search tool (UGOE 4 Research), which is available free of charge until end of July. The only thing you need is a xxx@uni-goettingen.de email adress and then you can register via this link. Sarah Hoffman Urlaub, one of our GAUSS postdocs, provided for …

Workshop "COST - Your Doorway to EU-Funding" (EU Office), 20 June 2019

COST - an EU-funded programme – offers researchers and scholars the ideal means to establish or develop transnational interdisciplinary research networks over Europe and beyond. These networks called COST Actions allow researchers and scholars to develop their own ideas and new initiatives across all fields in science and technology, including social sciences and humanities, by providing funds to organise workshops, …

Workshop "ERC Starting Grant" (EU Office), 27 June 2019

The European Research Council’s mission is to promote the highest quality research in Europe by offering ERC-funding schemes that are “investigator-driven” or “bottom-up” thus allowing researchers a great degree of flexibility to identify new opportunities and directions in any field of research. ERC grants are awarded through open competition to projects headed by researchers at various career stages, irrespective of …

Add-on Fellowships in Interdisciplinary Life Science (postdocs, PhDs) - apply by 23 June 2019

You are already integrated in the German science system and wish to gain insight into adjacent branches of study? With this fellowship the Joachim Herz Foundation supports your interdisciplinary research and international networking. They provide flexible support of your career development over a period of two years, with a total amount of up to 12,500 Euro. Fellows with children will …

Volkswagen Stiftung "Experiment" Funding Call (apply by 10 July 2019)

Take the first step - the funding initiative "Experiment!" of the Volkswagen Stiftung supports radically new and risky research ideas by funding 30-40 projects per year. The exploration of exceptionally daring new ideas is not yet really a focal point of the research agenda in Germany, as far as facing challenges and radically transforming common wisdom are concerned. This often …

DAAD Postdoc Researchers International Mobility Experience (PRIME), apply by 30 Aug 2019

In 2014 the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) initiated the programme "Postdoctoral Researchers International Mobility Experience" (PRIME) to support the international mobility of postdoctoral researchers by temporary positions at German universities in place of conventional scholarships. The programme has been funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the European Union (EU/FP7/Marie Curie Actions/COFUND). Funding is …

EU Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowships – deadline 11 September 2019

The new call for the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSC) is now open until 11 September 2019. The MSC actions inlcude five different funding streams (for further information on MSC please see below), whereas the "Individual Fellwoships" (IF) are the most interesting for postdoctoral researchers. Research, Mobility and Training are key features. Application deadline is 11 September 2019 5pm Brussels time. For …

Job Opportunities

BCG AI-Workshop in Hamburg (4-5 Juli 2019) und BCG Mini-Internship (18-27 Sept 2019)

The Boston Consulting Group is hosting an AI workshop for natural and life scientists in July and a mini internship in September to introduce BCG and its consulting work. Artificial Intelligence Workshop, July 4-5, 2019 in Hamburg, Germany Are you interested in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and possible applications in practice? In our workshop you will learn how to use AI …

Positions in Science Management at various places

Currently there are plenty of open positions in science management at various places. Check out the opportunites below with links to the job adverts! Referent/in for research support and promoting junior scientists Institution: University Osnarbrück Duration, working hours, start of post: until 31 Dec 2021; full time; as soon as possible Salary: TV-L, E13 Application deadline: 01 July 2019 Job …

Postdoc Position (Neurological Surgery Department) at UC Davis

Please see below the message of Prof Ignacio Saez: Dear colleagues: I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join my lab at UC Davis. The lab belongs to both the Neurological Surgery department and the Center for Neuroscience, integrating basic and translational research efforts within UC Davis’ vibrant, highly multidisciplinary and collaborative research community. Lab projects focus on the …

Postdoc Positions at the University Hospital Tübingen (Functional and Restorative Neurosurgery)

The lab of Prof Alireza Gharabaghi (Division of Functional and Restorative Neurosurgery, University Hospital Tübingen) is hiring PhD students and postdoctoral researcher. Please see attached the advert for the different posts. Vacancies_DepFunctionalRestorativeNeurosurgery_2019-05

Pfizer is hiring at their site in Freiburg

Pfizer is hiring at their site in Freiburg and there are a couple of intersting job adverts for life scientists (please see adverts including links and the hiring manager below). One of our alumni is working at Pfizer in Freiburg and if you would like to contact her, please send us an email (career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de). Quality Assurance Manager (m/w/d) SOP System …

Dr. Stefanie Klug
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Georg-August-University School of Science (GAUSS)
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