The Georg-August University School of Science (GAUSS) offers an Affinity Designer Beginners’ course in January 2024 for which there are still a few slots available.
The Young Entrepreneurs in Science powered by the Falling Walls Foundation offers various workshops and events tailored to PhDs and postdocs of all disciplines as well as early-career researchers and academic staff to help you to discover your entrepreneurial skills.
What do you associate with the topic of entrepreneurship? What enables you to become an entrepreneur yourself? … Continued
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 offer 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. … Continued
Within the framework of “Researching Research”, 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. … Continued
The Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science is a community of exceptional young scientists who share a passion for taking research beyond the mainstream. Fellows are given the means to pursue their personal vision of a particular scientific project independently – in the best possible locations, … Continued
The Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators was first established in 1995. It acknowledges outstanding contributions to biomedical research in Europe based on methods of molecular biology, including novel analytical concepts.
The winner is selected by an independent expert committee chaired by Reinhard Jahn (Director Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, … Continued
The Helmholtz Prize 2024 is awarded by the Helmholtz Fund e.V. for extraordinary achievement in the field of precision measurement in the following two categories:
The Fritz Thyssen Foundation supports your research via different funding opportunities in the fields of biomedicine, humanities and social sciences.
You can apply either for research projects with a limited time frame (apply by 1 Feb 2024), for organizing small research conferences (apply by 28 Feb 2024) or – … Continued
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 in their field of research. … Continued
The next call for the Max-Eder Junior Research Group by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until 21 February 2024.
Aiming at highly qualified young oncologists (physicians during or after the specialist training as well as scientists with an explicit clinic-oriented orientation of the project), this funding scheme is supporting them in establishing their own independent working group and further developing their scientific career. … Continued
The next call for the Mildred-Scheel-Postdoc Program by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until 21 February 2024. This postdoctoral funding scheme is providing young doctors and natural scientists the opportunity to carry out projects in clinically oriented oncological basic research or clinical cancer research at renowned institutions abroad.
The funding scheme at a glance:
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. … Continued
The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is sponsoring short-term reaserch projects abroad for postdos to gain an important qualification for a later career in science, business or the cultural sector. The duration of this funding scheme is 3-6 months you will receive a stipend including a basic monthly payment for accommodation, meals and incidental expenses of 1,750€ (+ child allowance, … Continued
A GGNB alumnus has advertised a position for his team at ZEISS in Jena. It is initially a temporary parental leave replacement for someone who has an affinity for microscopy and biology. Knowledge of German is desirable, but not essential. It is certainly also a good option for starting a career in industry or at ZEISS. … Continued
From 20-26 July 2024 the Merck Innovation Cup summer camp 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 Innovation Cup. … Continued
The GMP Academy is offering various online trainings in the coming months:
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. … Continued
We are happy to announce our first GAUSS Career Workshop in 2024 “How to find your postdoctoral position“ by Dr Dagmar Sigurdardottir. This workshop is intended for early postdocs and late-stage PhD students who are looking for their first or next postdoctoral position.
Dates: Thursday, 18 January 2024, … Continued
It is very common to be unsure about your next career step either at the end of your PhD or also during your postdoc phase. Our goal is to facilitate your career planning and assist you in handling challenges in your current work environment. We are aiming to enable you to reflect on your options and decide about your next career steps or activities to overcome challenges. … Continued
The GAUSS Career Service will be closed for a winter / Christmas break from 15 December 2023 to 7 January 2024. We will pick up on all your messages when we are back in office. Have a lovely and well-deserved break with some downtime.
All the best and Merry Christmas,
Stefanie & … Continued
A trainee program is one option to start your career in industry and can be a great opportunity. As there are many in different sectors (e.g. Pharma, Chemical Industry, Consulting, Precision Engineering), we collated nearly 50 and listed them on this webpage categorised by industry and all with a short profile. At all these companies, alumni of GAUSS/GGNB are employed. … Continued
Attracting research funding is one of the key measures on the road to academic independence and success. There are plenty of options as a postdoc to apply for national and international research grants and scholarships depending on your career level and also the length of the project or research plan. To support you in navigating through the different funding schemes we provide on our webpage a list of funding opportunities to give you a general overview of what is available. … Continued
Our Workshop Program for 2024 is now online available via this link. Feel free to scroll through and check out which courses might be of interest for your career development – either in acedmia or industry. If you already want to sign up for a workshop, please check out the specific details and make sure to add it to your calender. … Continued
We would like to give you heads up that the GAUSS Career Service will be closed for a winter / Christmas break from 15 December 2023 to 7 January 2024. We will pick up on all your messages when we are back in office. Have a lovely and well-deserved break with some downtime. … Continued
We are happy to inform you that our Workshop Program for 2024 is now online available via this link. Feel free to scroll through and check out which courses might be of interest for your career development – either in acedmia or industry. If you already want to sign up for a workshop, … Continued
We are delighted to introduce you to a feature on our GAUSS Career Service Webpage: a selection of Trainee Programs in industry. A trainee program is one option to start your career in industry and can be a great opportunity. As there are many in different sectors (e.g. Pharma, Chemical Industry, Consulting, … Continued
We are happy to announce our first GAUSS Career Workshop in 2024 “How to find your postdoctoral position“ by Dr Dagmar Sigurdardottir. This workshop is intended for early postdocs and late-stage PhD students who are looking for their first or next postdoctoral position.
Dates: Thursday, 18 January 2024, … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Workshop “Job Hunting and Application Skills” by Gaby Schilling.
The European IP Helpdesk is offering a webinar on “Patents and Innovation”. The webinar will explain the various stages in innovation process, and how patent information can assist the decision-making process in going from one stage to the other to successful commercialisation and beyond.
Date: Wednesday, 22 November 2023
Duration: 10:30-12:00h; … Continued
Everyone should have the opportunity to develop their talents and abilities in research and science. With this in mind, the virtual careers event organized by the Inclusion Initiative for 4 December 2023 will hinge upon the subject of “Work and career opportunities for people with disabilities in science and research”. … Continued
In 2024, the University of Göttingen will again offer the Dorothea Schlözer Mentoring Program for female postdocs and female doctoral candidates (in their final year) at Göttingen Campus, designed to accompany young female researchers through this stage of their development. The aim is to increase the number of women in leading positions in Academia. … Continued
The University of Göttingen again offers the Dorothea Schlözer Career Coaching Program for female postdocs, junior research group leaders and junior professors of all disciplines at Göttingen campus. The program is designed to accompany young female researchers through this phase of their development and help them advance their academic career in a more targeted way. … Continued
The LIFT-OFF Start-up Competition for the promotion of start-ups enters its next round. The competition is aimed both at people interested in starting a business and active founders (teams and individuals) from all fields. The competition is accompanied by various events and workshops and a mentoring program in the field of entrepreneurship.
Realizing your business idea: You will have the opportunity to start your own real business and experience a start-up’s challenges. … Continued
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 monthly online information events on new offers for publishing open access. … Continued
Within the framework of “Researching Research”, 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. … Continued
The Helmholtz Prize 2024 is awarded by the Helmholtz Fund e.V. for extraordinary achievement in the field of precision measurement in the following two categories:
The Fritz Thyssen Foundation supports your research via different funding opportunities in the fields of biomedicine, humanities and social sciences.
You can apply either for research projects with a limited time frame (apply by 1 Feb 2024), for organizing small research conferences (apply by 28 Feb 2024) or – … Continued
The next call for the Max-Eder Junior Research Group by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until 21 February 2024.
Aiming at highly qualified young oncologists (physicians during or after the specialist training as well as scientists with an explicit clinic-oriented orientation of the project), this funding scheme is supporting them in establishing their own independent working group and further developing their scientific career. … Continued
The next call for the Mildred-Scheel-Postdoc Program by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until 21 February 2024. This postdoctoral funding scheme is providing young doctors and natural scientists the opportunity to carry out projects in clinically oriented oncological basic research or clinical cancer research at renowned institutions abroad. … Continued
After the very successful WoCaNet symposium in May 2023, we are now looking for organizers for the next symposium in spring 2025. If you would like to join the organization team which puts together another inspiring and impactful Women’s Careers and Networks symposium, write to ggnb@gwdg.de by 4 December! … Continued
Bristol-Myers Squibb currently has different trainee programs on offer to join the company at their site in Munich. Application deadlines for both are 15 December 2023. Please see below for the PDFs of the job adverts provided by one of our Alumni. Applications are only possible via the career portal. … Continued
The Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz (WissZeitVG) has been regulating working conditions in academia in Germany since 2007. Now, a reform is planned and the debate is heated. The German Scholars Organization (GSO) has published WissZeitVG in a nutshell in its Facts and Tools section, with a summary of the current discussion and links to info in English and German. … Continued
The Scientific Computing Associate (SCA) II position represents an alternative to traditional scientific roles (e.g. postdoc) and provides an ideal environment to establish a career in computational research or software engineering. The position aims at developing qualifications and experience in computational research and professional software engineering in a research environment that enables the candidate to pursue their future career in science or industry. … Continued
The Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science is a community of exceptional young scientists who share a passion for taking research beyond the mainstream. Fellows are given the means to pursue their personal vision of a particular scientific project independently – in the best possible locations, … Continued
The Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators was first established in 1995. It acknowledges outstanding contributions to biomedical research in Europe based on methods of molecular biology, including novel analytical concepts.
The winner is selected by an independent expert committee chaired by Reinhard Jahn (Director Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, … Continued
ERC Consolidator Grants (up to 5 years and € 2 million) are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or program.
Researchers of any nationality with 7-12 years of experience since completion of PhD (Extensions are possible under certain circumstances — see the latest ERC Work Programme), … Continued
BMBF Junior research groups led by women in the field of Artificial Intelligence to enable research about AI issues on novel and innovative topics by AI junior research groups led by women. The funding is intended to enable female researchers to set up an independent working group, … Continued
The Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (CNV) Foundation is aiming for the advancement of science and to facilitate the progress of highly qualified women with children. Excellent graduate students and postdoctoral fellows are supported 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 and thereby to contribute to advance more highly qualified women in Germany’s leading scientific research. … Continued
The goal of the EMBO New Venture Fellowship is to support early career scientists, in any field of life science research, who would use this opportunity to enter a new field of research. The intention of these fellowships is to support high quality candidates to explore feasible projects or generate preliminary data to help transform their research trajectory. … Continued
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 offer 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. … Continued
The Young Entrepreneurs in Science offers various workshops and events tailored to PhDs and postdocs of all disciplines as well as early-career researchers and academic staff to help you to discover your entrepreneurial skills.
What do you associate with the topic of entrepreneurship? What enables you to become an entrepreneur yourself? Where do you get support from? … Continued
We’re happy to announce our next virtual GAUSS Career Information Event, this time with Bayer’s Inhouse Consultancy.
The German Scholars Organization (GSO) offers the webinar “Careers beyond Academia #LifeSciences“ on Thursday, 16 November 2023, 16:15-17:30h.
Contents: Life Sciences are a broad field and finding a job outside of academia can be twice as challenging: What areas of work are there? What should I know about the job titles? … Continued
The end of the year is approaching fast and there are only very few slots for individual counseling and advice left in 2023! So if you are unsure about your next career steps and if you want to discuss different topics, including CV and application checks, – no matter if you are pursuing a career inside or outside of academia – … Continued
Are you looking for a job or internship in life sciences? Then, the career fair ScieCon is the right place for you! We invite you to immerse yourself in the world of life sciences and get to know potential employers at the ScieCon.
Free ride for your career – take a shuttle bus to the ScieCon from Göttingen on 26 Oct 2023. … Continued
Children – they are our greatest treasure, they make life fast-paced and colourful. Children shake up our view of the world and throw our life plans into disarray. And they need time and our attention – just like the job. Children AND career – is that possible?
The workshop is about taking a critical look at your own life and career plans: What exactly do I want to combine: how much career, … Continued
In order to illustrate the diversity of activities and the prerequisites for entering science management for doctoral students and postdocs, the Göttingen Graduate Schools offer an event in November 2023 with short presentations on individual pathways in science management. … Continued
The goal of the EMBO New Venture Fellowship is to support early career scientists, in any field of life science research, who would use this opportunity to enter a new field of research. The intention of these fellowships is to support high quality candidates to explore feasible projects or generate preliminary data to help transform their research trajectory. … Continued
ERC Starting Grants (up to 5 years and € 1.5 million) are designed to fund Principal Investigators (PIs) who already produced excellent supervised work and are ready to work independently showing 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), … Continued
BMBF Junior research groups led by women in the field of Artificial Intelligence to enable research about AI issues on novel and innovative topics by AI junior research groups led by women. The funding is intended to enable female researchers to set up an independent working group, … Continued
ERC Consolidator Grants (up to 5 years and € 2 million) are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or program.
Researchers of any nationality with 7-12 years of experience since completion of PhD (Extensions are possible under certain circumstances — see the latest ERC Work Programme), … Continued
The Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science is a community of exceptional young scientists who share a passion for taking research beyond the mainstream. Fellows are given the means to pursue their personal vision of a particular scientific project independently – in the best possible locations, … Continued
The Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich is advertising for a Scientific Manager in their Research Department. Please see the link below for further details.
Referent*in im Team Nationale Förderprogramme (m/w/d) … Continued
The Scientific Computing Associate (SCA) II position represents an alternative to traditional scientific roles (e.g. postdoc) and provides an ideal environment to establish a career in computational research or software engineering. The position aims at developing qualifications and experience in computational research and professional software engineering in a research environment that enables the candidate to pursue their future career in science or industry. … Continued
GÖTTINGEN CAMPUS POSTDOC COMMITTEE – call for applications for the Committee
The Göttingen Campus (GC) Postdoc Committee is looking for your ideas, input, and energy to make the Göttingen Campus a better place for Postdocs. Please see Melissa Sollich’s message below:
As a committee member, you will benefit from:
On 15 September 2023, the third call of the programme “Career promotion of female scientists” will start. The programme addresses individual needs of young female scientists. It supports projects or achievements that significantly improve their chances of reaching the next career level. Applications can be made for financial and time resources to enable female scientists to perform and expand the (additional) services required for a career in science, … Continued
The Young Entrepreneurs in Science offers various workshops and events tailored to PhDs and postdocs of all disciplines as well as early-career researchers and academic staff to help you to discover your entrepreneurial skills.
What do you associate with the topic of entrepreneurship? What enables you to become an entrepreneur yourself? Where do you get support from? … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Workshop “Job Hunting and Application Skills” by Gaby Schilling.
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service online workshop “Resilience for Postdocs” by Heli Korhonen.
Date: Wednesday, 13 December 2023
Duration: one full day, 9:00-16:00h
Location: online
Trainer: Heli Korhonen
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. … Continued
We’re happy to announce our next virtual GAUSS Career Information Event, this time with Bayer’s Inhouse Consultancy.
The next call for the Max-Eder Junior Research Group by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until 7 November 2023.
Aiming at highly qualified young oncologists (physicians during or after the specialist training as well as scientists with an explicit clinic-oriented orientation of the project), this funding scheme is supporting them in establishing their own independent working group and further developing their scientific career. … Continued
The next call for the Mildred-Scheel-Postdoc Program by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until 7 November 2023. This postdoctoral funding scheme is providing young doctors and natural scientists the opportunity to carry out projects in clinically oriented oncological basic research or clinical cancer research at renowned institutions abroad and also within Germany. … Continued
The new German-Israeli Max Planck Weizmann Postdoctoral Programme offers outstanding postdoctoral researchers in the fields of physics, chemistry, mathematics, computer science and earth sciences a prestigious four-year appointment in a unique research environment.
The cooperation between the MPG and the WIS offers talented researchers the opportunity to participate in innovative projects, benefit from the expertise of two renowned institutions and contribute to the advancement of knowledge in their respective subjects. … Continued
The Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (CNV) Foundation is aiming for the advancement of science and to facilitate the progress of highly qualified women with children. Excellent graduate students and postdoctoral fellows are supported 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 and thereby to contribute to advance more highly qualified women in Germany’s leading scientific research. … Continued
The Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators was first established in 1995. It acknowledges outstanding contributions to biomedical research in Europe based on methods of molecular biology, including novel analytical concepts.
The winner is selected by an independent expert committee chaired by Reinhard Jahn (Director Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, … Continued
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 offer 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. … Continued
The GMP Academy is offering various online trainings in the coming months:
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. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Workshop “Supervising PhD Students as a Postdoc” by Dr. Silke Oehrlein-Karpi.
Date: Tuesday, 24 October 2023
Duration: 1 full day (9:00-17:00h)
Location: GZMB building, seminar room -1.105, basement, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11 (map)
Trainer: Dr. … Continued
We’re happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Impulse Sessions, this time with Dr. Adam Tomczak, Quality Manager at Ivoclar.
In the talk, Adam will explore the current regulatory landscape for medical devices and various roles life sciences graduates can assume in the industry.He will discuss transferable strengths of life science graduates and typical challenges they face when transitioning to those roles. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Workshop “Supervising PhD Students as a Postdoc” by Dr. Silke Oehrlein-Karpi.
Date: Tuesday, 24 October 2023
Duration: 1 full day (9:00-17:00h)
Location: GZMB building, seminar room -1.105, basement, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11 (map)
Trainer: Dr. … Continued
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. … Continued
Reflect your skillset as an Innovator and discover what you already bring to the table! Practise your entrepreneurial mindset and meet other PhDs or postdocs with great ideas. Learn how to convince supporters or investors of your vision and personality. Develop your pitch storyline and receive feedback from our experts and an interdisciplinary team of peers, … Continued
The GMP Academy is offering various online trainings in the coming months:
The registration fee for each course depends on your current status. … Continued
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! … Continued
The Young Entrepreneurs in Science offers various workshops and events tailored to PhDs and postdocs of all disciplines as well as early-career researchers and academic staff to help you to discover your entrepreneurial skills.
What do you associate with the topic of entrepreneurship? What enables you to become an entrepreneur yourself? Where do you get support from? … Continued
The HR and Organisation Development of the Göttingen University is offering workshops that are open to all employees (including Postdocs and PhD students) of the Göttingen university. Employees of partner institutions like UMG and the MPIs are also welcome to sign up and will receive a slot if there is availability.
You can register for the workshops via the new qualification portal. … Continued
The German Primate Center (DPZ) is planning a Science Career Day on 28 September 2023 starting at 14:00h.
The Career Day is a great opportunity for Bachelor, Master and PhD students as well as for early stage postdocs to get an idea about possible career perspectives at first hand. Meet fantastic speakers from various fields – … Continued
Through the Startupkit, you as a university member or alumni/alumnae can acquire specific knowledge around the topics of entrepreneurship and innovation and get inspired by other startups.
Have you ever wondered how to transfer a scientific research project into a practical application or how to transform an innovative, sustainable or technological idea into a viable business model? … Continued
The information event “Research in Europe” will take place on Thursday 12 October 2023 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the University of Göttingen, ZHG, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5.
Organised by the European Liaison Office of the German Research Organisations (KoWi) and the University of Göttingen, … Continued
On 15 September 2023, the third call of the programme “Career promotion of female scientists” will start. The programme addresses individual needs of young female scientists. It supports projects or achievements that significantly improve their chances of reaching the next career level. Applications can be made for financial and time resources to enable female scientists to perform and expand the (additional) services required for a career in science, … Continued
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 offer 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. … Continued
Every year, the Daimler and Benz Foundation awards twelve scholarships (two of them in cooperation with the Reinhard Frank-Foundation) to exceptional postdoctoral researchers, junior professors, and heads of junior research groups. to selected postdoc researchers, junior professors, and heads of junior research groups. 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. … Continued
The Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators was first established in 1995. It acknowledges outstanding contributions to biomedical research in Europe based on methods of molecular biology, including novel analytical concepts.
The winner is selected by an independent expert committee chaired by Reinhard Jahn (Director Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, … Continued
Through “Scoping workshops”, the Volkswagen foundation intends to encourage a reflection and further development of disciplinary and interdisciplinary research areas and communities. Through this funding, researchers are given the opportunity to jointly assess the current status of their field of research and, on this basis, to work out perspectives for its further development. … Continued
ERC Starting Grants (up to 5 years and € 1.5 million) are designed to fund Principal Investigators (PIs) who already produced excellent supervised work and are ready to work independently showing 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), … Continued
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, 2023. The fellowship – now open to applicants from around the globe – offers funding of approximately EUR 53.000 (ILS 188,000) for up to 24 postdocs per year. … Continued
The new German-Israeli Max Planck Weizmann Postdoctoral Programme offers outstanding postdoctoral researchers in the fields of physics, chemistry, mathematics, computer science and earth sciences a prestigious four-year appointment in a unique research environment.
The cooperation between the MPG and the WIS offers talented researchers the opportunity to participate in innovative projects, benefit from the expertise of two renowned institutions and contribute to the advancement of knowledge in their respective subjects. … Continued
The next call for the Mildred-Scheel-Postdoc Program by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until 7 November 2023. This postdoctoral funding scheme is providing young doctors and natural scientists the opportunity to carry out projects in clinically oriented oncological basic research or clinical cancer research at renowned institutions abroad and also within Germany. … Continued
The next call for the Max-Eder Junior Research Group by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until 7 November 2023.
Aiming at highly qualified young oncologists (physicians during or after the specialist training as well as scientists with an explicit clinic-oriented orientation of the project), this funding scheme is supporting them in establishing their own independent working group and further developing their scientific career. … Continued
The Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (CNV) Foundation is aiming for the advancement of science and to facilitate the progress of highly qualified women with children. Excellent graduate students and postdoctoral fellows are supported 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 and thereby to contribute to advance more highly qualified women in Germany’s leading scientific research. … Continued
CSL plasma has two open position at their site in Göttingen. Both are fulltime positions, temporary for two years.
For details on the job adverts, click these links:
Kiel University is currently advertising for a science manager position (75% part time, 13-TVL, permanent position) to support the Personell Development Department.
Please apply by 20 September 2023. For further details have a look at the job advert here. … Continued
The Max Plack Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences is currently advertising for a position as Referent*in für Wissenschaftskommunikation (m/w/d) (full time, TVöD, temporary for 2 years with the option to extend) to support the institute’s Communication & Media team.
The team is looking for a new colleague with a background in natural sciences / science journalism, … Continued
The University of Heidelberg is currently advertising for a science manager position (full time, 13-TVL, temporary position until 30 September 2026) to support the Rector’s Office (primarily in the department of quality development and sustainability) as Referent*in (m/w/d).
Please apply by 15 October 2023. For further details have a look at the job advert here. … Continued
Inspired by the celebration of the Postdoc Appreciation Week in the USA and the UK, the PAW Germany coordination team invited researchers and research institutions, postdoc coordinators and research administrators all over Germany to join us in creating a special program, events and a social media campaign to honor the incredible work of postdocs also in 2023! … Continued
The information event “Research in Europe” will take place on Thursday 12 October 2023 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the University of Göttingen, ZHG, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5.
Organised by the European Liaison Office of the German Research Organisations (KoWi) and the University of Göttingen, … Continued
We’re happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Impulse Sessions, Center Manager at the Center for Digital Transformation of the Technical University of Munich at TUM Campus Heilbronn.
Franziska will provide insights into the field of science management and shed light on various job opportunities and employers in this field, sharing her personal experiences and perspectives. … Continued
The GAUSS Career Service is happy to announce our next online project management workshop “Fast Forward – The Ultimate Productivity System for Researchers” with Dr. Nadine Sinclair.
Achieve amazing productivity and reduce your stress level in 7 weeks by implementing the productivity secrets that allow management consultants and high-performing industry teams to generate results quickly. … Continued
Ignite your entrepreneurial spirit! In a two-day innovation workshop offered by the Falling Walls Foundation, tailored to PhD’s and postdocs of all disciplines as well as early-career researchers and academic staff you will discover your entrepreneurial skills. Guided by professional innovation coaches, you will develop ideas for a potential business case in small groups. … Continued
The GWDG Academy offers a 1,5 hour online tutorial “Working with GRO-Data” on 12 Sept 2023 (10:00-11:30h). Participants will get to know and use the research data repository GRO.data. They will be able to upload data sets and files, add metadata, edit and publish them in the repository or prepare them for publication. … Continued
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! … Continued
Reflect your skillset as an Innovator and discover what you already bring to the table! Practise your entrepreneurial mindset and meet other PhDs or postdocs with great ideas. Learn how to convince supporters or investors of your vision and personality. Develop your pitch storyline and receive feedback from our experts and an interdisciplinary team of peers, … Continued
The HR and Organisation Development Department of Göttingen university is offering a workshop for female Postdocs called “Network building for a successful academic career” on 20 October 2023. The workshop is given by Dr. Julia Schönbrunn and will take place at Heinrich-Düker-Weg 5, 37073 Göttingen, 2. … Continued
The HR and Organisation Development of the Göttingen University is offering workshops that are open to all employees (including Postdocs and PhD students) of the Göttingen university. Employees of partner institutions like UMG and the MPIs are also welcome to sign up and will receive a slot if there is availability.
You can register for the workshops via the new qualification portal. … Continued
Through the Startupkit, you as a university member or alumni/alumnae can acquire specific knowledge around the topics of entrepreneurship and innovation and get inspired by other startups.
Have you ever wondered how to transfer a scientific research project into a practical application or how to transform an innovative, sustainable or technological idea into a viable business model? … Continued
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. … Continued
With funds from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the DAAD PRIME program funds temporary positions at German universities to support the international mobility of postdoctoral researchers.
Postdoctoral researchers who see their long-term career perspectives in Germany receive funding for a research stay abroad based on a temporary position at a German university. … Continued
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. … Continued
The new call for the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) is now open until 13 September 2023 (5pm Brussels time) and you can apply for 2-year postdoctoral fellowships. The purpose of these awards is to enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, … Continued
Are you interested in joining the renowned DKFZ? Then take your opportunity and apply for one of their Postdoctoral Fellowships representing the most prestigious and competitive postdoc recruitment process at the DKFZ. It is intended to recruit highly talented and motivated young scientist, who wish to work at the forefront of cancer research in any of basic or translational cancer research labs at the DKFZ. … Continued
The German Chemical Society (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker – GDCh) currently has several open calls for prizes and awards for outstanding scientific achievements in the field of chemistry and related sciences.
The following awards are currently advertised. The deadline for nominations is 15 September 2023.
Every year, the Daimler and Benz Foundation awards twelve scholarships (two of them in cooperation with the Reinhard Frank-Foundation) to exceptional postdoctoral researchers, junior professors, and heads of junior research groups. to selected postdoc researchers, junior professors, and heads of junior research groups. 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. … Continued
ERC Starting Grants (up to 5 years and € 1.5 million) are designed to fund Principal Investigators (PIs) who already produced excellent supervised work and are ready to work independently showing 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), … Continued
On 15 September 2023, the third call of the programme “Career promotion of female scientists” will start. The programme addresses individual needs of young female scientists. It supports projects or achievements that significantly improve their chances of reaching the next career level. Applications can be made for financial and time resources to enable female scientists to perform and expand the (additional) services required for a career in science, … Continued
The University of Freiburg is currently advertising for a science manager position (50% part time, 13-TVL, temporary position until 25 September 2025) to support the Office of the Dean for Research of the Faculty of Medicine as Forschungsreferent*in (m/w/d). Career starters are welcome to apply!
Please apply by 3 September 2023. … Continued
Michael Ratz (IMPRS MolBio Alumnus) is setting up the Ratz Lab at Karolinska Institute (Stockholm, Sweden) and has several openings for Master students, PhD students and postdocs to work at the intersection of neuroscience, synthetic biology, and single-cell (spatial) transcriptomics.
The lab is interested in the brain wiring problem: how is genomic information (thousands of genes) translated into neuron-specific connectivity (trillions of synapses)? … Continued
CSL plasma has two open position at their site in Göttingen. Both are fulltime positions, temporary for two years.
For details on the job adverts, click these links:
The Life Science Factory in Göttingen is inviting to a novel and special event format in collaboration with SPRIND – Federal Agency for Leap Innovations:
The SPRIND Podcast has already made a name for itself for breakthrough innovations, new technologies and forward-looking ideas and will now be recorded live for the first time in Göttingen on a stage and in front of a large audience. … Continued
The Max Planck PostdocNet’s Mental Health Initiative 2023 continues at full speed with some excellent talks in English and German. They are free to all online events using WebEx.
The GAUSS Career Service Office will be closed for summer holidays from 14 to 30 July 2023. During this period we are not organising any workshops or events and won’t have email access but will respond to your queries on our return.
Best wishes and have a lovely summer break as well, … Continued
About to leave for summer holidays or just back from a break and unsure about your next career steps? Then book your individual counseling and advice sessions with us!
You can discuss different topics, including CV and application checks, – no matter if you are pursuing a career inside or outside of academia. … Continued
Ignite your entrepreneurial spirit! In a two-day innovation workshop offered by the Falling Walls Foundation, tailored to PhD’s and postdocs of all disciplines as well as early-career researchers and academic staff you will discover your entrepreneurial skills. Guided by professional innovation coaches, you will develop ideas for a potential business case in small groups. … Continued
The GWDG Academy offers a 1,5 hour online tutorial “Working with GRO-Data” on 12 Sept 2023 (10:00-11:30h). Participants will get to know and use the research data repository GRO.data. They will be able to upload data sets and files, add metadata, edit and publish them in the repository or prepare them for publication. … Continued
The HR and Organisation Development of the Göttingen University is offering workshops that are open to all employees (including Postdocs and PhD students) of the Göttingen university. Employees of partner institutions like UMG and the MPIs are also welcome to sign up and will receive a slot if there is availability.
You can register for the workshops via the new qualification portal. … Continued
The German Research Foundation (DFG) regularly publishes infobriefs presenting abridged versions of the statistical results on topics relevant to the DFG’s funding programmes. They are now availale in English as well as German.
The subject of the current DFG report is “Staying in research. Research funding and career paths: an update” and it analyses how many of those who submitted a proposal to DFG programmes have stayed in the German research system. … Continued
The Division of Strategy, Research and Junior Academics of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) currently offers two temporary positions for Science Managers. Please apply by 20 July 2023.
The Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry (MPIB) in Martinsried near Munich currently has an open position as scientific coordinator in the Career Development Service and Coordination team (full time, 13-TVL, temporary for 2 years with the possibility for a permanent contract afterwards). The position will start as soon as possible. … Continued
The Max Planck PostdocNet’s Mental Health Initiative 2023 continues at full speed with some excellent talks in English and German. They are free to all online events using WebEx.
From July to October of 2022 the PostdocNet of the Max Planck Society surveyed 650 postdocs from more than 50 MPIs across Germany and abroad regarding a variety of topics in their work and personal lives. The survey contained over 120 questions from 5 main categories including working conditions, career development and well-being. The results highlight both the passion and pressure of the postdoc experience. … Continued
The career feature “How to train early-career scientists to weather failure“ in Nature shares perspectives to address the worry about failure – how it is necessary, how to prepare and learn from the experience. It shares scientists’ “CVs of failure”, as well as information on conferences and workshops that directly address getting through the setbacks, … Continued
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! … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Workshop “Career development strategies: Mastering my Job Interview” by Dr. Alexander Britz. This workshop is intended for those postdocs and late stage-PhD students who are already informed about various professional perspectives outside academia and have reflected their own suitability for different career paths. … Continued
We’re happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Impulse Sessions, Center Manager at the Center for Digital Transformation of the Technical University of Munich at TUM Campus Heilbronn.
Franziska will provide insights into the field of science management and shed light on various job opportunities and employers in this field, sharing her personal experiences and perspectives. … Continued
Every year, the Daimler and Benz Foundation awards twelve scholarships (two of them in cooperation with the Reinhard Frank-Foundation) to exceptional postdoctoral researchers, junior professors, and heads of junior research groups. to selected postdoc researchers, junior professors, and heads of junior research groups. 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. … Continued
In cooperation with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) the DAAD gives highly qualified postdocs the possibility of a 1-6 month research stay at Japanese universities or research institutions. PhD students can apply for stays for up to 12 months.
The program is open for German postdocs and PhD students (and those with a permanent residence permit for Germany) of all subjects. … Continued
EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships support excellent postdoctoral researchers throughout Europe and the world for a period of up to two years. International mobility is a key requirement. The fellowship includes a salary or stipend, a relocation allowance and support for fellows with children. Awardees can attend an EMBO Laboratory Leadership course and become part of the global network of EMBO Fellows. … Continued
The next call for the Mildred-Scheel-Postdoc Program by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until 22 August 2023. This postdoctoral funding scheme is providing young doctors and natural scientists the opportunity to carry out projects in clinically oriented oncological basic research or clinical cancer research at renowned institutions abroad and for the first time also within Germany. … Continued
The next call for the Max-Eder Junior Research Group by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until 22 August 2023.
Aiming at highly qualified young oncologists (physicians during or after the specialist training as well as scientists with an explicit clinic-oriented orientation of the project), this funding scheme is supporting them in establishing their own independent working group and further developing their scientific career. … Continued
With funds from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the DAAD PRIME program funds temporary positions at German universities to support the international mobility of postdoctoral researchers.
Postdoctoral researchers who see their long-term career perspectives in Germany receive funding for a research stay abroad based on a temporary position at a German university. … Continued
The new call for the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) is now open until 13 September 2023 (5pm Brussels time) and you can apply for 2-year postdoctoral fellowships. The purpose of these awards is to enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, … Continued
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. … Continued
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. … Continued
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), … Continued
The HR and Organisation Development Department of Göttingen university is offering a workshop for female Postdocs called “Network building for a successful academic career” on 20 October 2023. The workshop is given by Dr. Julia Schönbrunn and will take place at Heinrich-Düker-Weg 5, 37073 Göttingen, 2. … Continued
The GAUSS Career Service Office will be closed for summer holidays from 14 to 30 July 2023. During this period we are not organising any workshops or events and won’t have email access but will respond to your queries on our return.
Please note that there are only very few appointments for counselling sessions and CV/applications checks left in June and July. … Continued
The GAUSS Career Service is offering individual counseling and advice sessions where different topics, including CV and application checks, can be covered – no matter if you are pursuing a career inside or outside of academia.
Our goal is to facilitate your career planning and assist you in handling challenges in your current work environment. … Continued
The “Young Entrepreneurs in Science” (YES) in cooperation with the Falling Walls Foundation are organising a quick lunchtime Q+A session on 20 June 2023 from 12:00-12:45h for a chance to get to know Young Entrepreneurs in Science and introduce their workshop program.
You can join the virtual session “Discover Your Career Opportunities as Young Entrepreneurs in Science” … Continued
The HR and Organisation Development Department of Göttingen university is offering a workshop for female Postdocs called “Network building for a successful academic career” on 20 October 2023. The workshop is given by Dr. Julia Schönbrunn and will take place at Heinrich-Düker-Weg 5, 37073 Göttingen, 2. … Continued
Learn to use the Linux operating system on the compute cluster for your research. The online workshop “Using the GWDG Scientific Compute Cluster” on 3 July 2023 starts with connecting to the cluster and an overview of the most important Linux commands. You will then find out about compilation and installation of software and learn how to run computations. … Continued
The University’s EU Office is organizing an information event (22 June 2023) on the upcoming ERC Starting Grant Call, which is scheduled to be opened in July 2023. The tentative deadline is 24 October 2023.
If you are interested in applying and learning more about this funding scheme, … Continued
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), … Continued
CSL Behring has an open position at their site in Marburg. It is a fulltime, permanent, non-tariff position.
For details on the job advert, see this link: Manager FACS/SPR Laboratory (m/f/x)
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The Göttingen Campus Postdoc Committee signed the Joint Statement from German Postdoctoral Networks on the BMBF paper about the WISSZEITVG (Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz, the German law concerning academic fixed-term contracts): The Committee also had a useful discussion with the Director of HR at the University to find ways to share understanding about the effects of the current legislation on researchers. … Continued
To help international scientists with finding a job in Germany, the German Scholars Organization has published an overview about transitioning to industry here.
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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. … Continued
The GMP Academy is offering a 5-day online training GMP Grundlagenkurs in German from 3-7 July 2023. (A basic GMP course in English will be offered in November 2023)
Fees: The registration fee depends on your current status:
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. … Continued
The new call for the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) is now open until 13 September 2023 (5pm Brussels time) and you can apply for 2-year postdoctoral fellowships. The purpose of these awards is to enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, … Continued
With funds from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the DAAD PRIME program funds temporary positions at German universities to support the international mobility of postdoctoral researchers.
Postdoctoral researchers who see their long-term career perspectives in Germany receive funding for a research stay abroad based on a temporary position at a German university. … Continued
The next call for the Max-Eder Junior Research Group by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until 22 August 2023.
Aiming at highly qualified young oncologists (physicians during or after the specialist training as well as scientists with an explicit clinic-oriented orientation of the project), this funding scheme is supporting them in establishing their own independent working group and further developing their scientific career. … Continued
The next call for the Mildred-Scheel-Postdoc Program by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until 22 August 2023. This postdoctoral funding scheme is providing young doctors and natural scientists the opportunity to carry out projects in clinically oriented oncological basic research or clinical cancer research at renowned institutions abroad and for the first time also within Germany. … Continued
EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships support excellent postdoctoral researchers throughout Europe and the world for a period of up to two years. International mobility is a key requirement. The fellowship includes a salary or stipend, a relocation allowance and support for fellows with children. Awardees can attend an EMBO Laboratory Leadership course and become part of the global network of EMBO Fellows. … Continued
In cooperation with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) the DAAD gives highly qualified postdocs the possibility of a 1-6 month research stay at Japanese universities or research institutions. PhD students can apply for stays for up to 12 months.
The program is open for German postdocs and PhD students (and those with a permanent residence permit for Germany) of all subjects. … Continued
The Peter und Traudl Engelhorn Stiftung is annually awarding 2-year Postdoc Scholarships to outstanding junior scientists in life sciences (e.g. Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Genetics, Proteomics, System Biology, BioMedTech, Biotechnology, BioInformatics, Biophysics). … Continued
The fellowships of the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg offer outstanding scientists the opportunity to focus on research without the distractions of everyday academic life, to exchange ideas with colleagues from other disciplines, and to benefit from a diverse and vibrant fellowship community.
Through its fellowship program, the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg promotes scholarships and research in the natural sciences, … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshop “Career planning and navigation on your way to professorship” by Dr. Uta Bronner. In the workshop you will develop an individual strategy to approach the next steps on your scientific path.
Date: Thursday and Friday, 6-7 July 2023
Duration: 1 full day (9:00-17:00h) in presence + 1 hour individual coaching session (online) on the second day
Location: North campus – … Continued
We’re happy to announce our next in-person GAUSS Career Impulse Sessions, this time with Dr. Daniel Reuss, Client Partner at IQVIA.
Daniel will talk about how he successfully made the switch from academia to a leading management consulting firm and further to one of the largest CROs worldwide. … Continued
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 – 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). … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshop “Career planning and navigation on your way to professorship” by Dr. Uta Bronner. In the workshop you will develop an individual strategy to approach the next steps on your scientific path.
Date: Thursday and Friday, 6-7 July 2023
Duration: 1 full day (9:00-17:00h) in presence + 1 hour individual coaching session (online) on the second day
Location: North campus – … Continued
Boehringer Ingelheim is currently looking for two highly motivated and innovative Postdocs in Bispecific Antibodies to join the Biotherapeutics Discovery department located at the Ridgefield/USA facility. The ideal candidates for this position will be independently driven computational biophysicists / chemists / biologist who are proficient in AI/ML (particularly, generative algorithms), molecular modeling and simulation based approaches to generate novel antibody sequences and optimize them for antigen binding as for developability in a synergistic manner. … Continued
The DFG has posted two short videos of successful DFG-funded researchers (Walter-Benjamin and Emmy Noether) on their homepage which you can check out here.
Furthermore, from now on, lists of newly funded reasearch fellows in excellence programs (Emmy Noether, Heisenberg programs) will be published regularly — four times a year: https://www.dfg.de/foerderung/info_wissenschaft/2023/info_wissenschaft_23_34/index.html … Continued
The Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN) of the University of Hamburg currently has an open position as Coordinator for a Career Development Program (temporary position until 31 Dec 2025). The start of the position is as soon as possible.
Please apply by 25 May 2023. … Continued
The UTN School of Students and Young Researchers (StaRs) of the University of Technology Nuremberg currently has an open position as science manager in the area Support of Early Career Researchers (full time, 13-TVL, permanent). The position will start on 1 October 2023.
Please apply by 24 May 2023. … Continued
The next hybrid job and career fair PRAXISBÖRSE of the University of Göttingen is coming up soon!
The PRAXISBÖRSE offers you the opportunity to look around for entry-level and career opportunities with attractive employers:
The GMP Academy is offering a 5-day online training GMP Grundlagenkurs in German from 3-7 July 2023. (A basic GMP course in English will be offered in November 2023)
Fees: The registration fee depends on your current status:
d-fine, as one of the leading European (financial) consulting companies, is offering an all expenses paid workshop on ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) investing in October 2023.
The financial sector is playing a key role in the sustainable transformation of the economy. ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) investing is becoming more and more important in the core business. … Continued
The DKFZ in Heidelberg is looking for a Referent*in for the Scientific Board (temporary position for two years) at the next possible date.
Please apply by 29 May 2023. For further details see the job advert here.
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The University of Giessen is currently advertising for a science manager position (50% part-time position, 13-TVL, temporary position from 1 September 2023 until 31 December 2026) to support the team of the Giessen Graduate Centre for the Life Sciences (GGL) as Referent*in for Postdoc Coordination.
Please apply by 30 May 2023. … Continued
The University of Göttingen set up a new funding scheme within the Dorothea Schlözer Program funded by the Programme for Female Professors III. The scheme “Career promotion of female scientists” is aiming to compensate for structural disadvantages of women in science and, in the long term, to increase the proportion of women at all stages of the scientific career. … Continued
Unfortunately there were not enough applications to run the mentoring program “WeWiMento – Wege ins Wissenschaftsmanagement” in 2023. Therefore there will be an alternative program for all interested in this career path. For further information please see the detailed information in German below and further down the different events – … Continued
In cooperation with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) the DAAD gives highly qualified postdocs the possibility of a 1-6 month research stay at Japanese universities or research institutions. PhD students can apply for stays for up to 12 months.
The program is open for German postdocs and PhD students (and those with a permanent residence permit for Germany) of all subjects. … Continued
The next call for the Max-Eder Junior Research Group by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until 22 August 2023.
Aiming at highly qualified young oncologists (physicians during or after the specialist training as well as scientists with an explicit clinic-oriented orientation of the project), this funding scheme is supporting them in establishing their own independent working group and further developing their scientific career. … Continued
Pint of Science is a worldwide science festival which brings researchers to your local pub/cafe/space to share their scientific discoveries with you.
For more information, please check the respective links of the Topics.
Locations & Topics:
Events at Café Bar Dots
Barfüßerstraße 12-13, 37073, Goettingen, Germany (Get directions)
Topics and Dates:
The next call for the Mildred-Scheel-Postdoc Program by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until 22 August 2023. This postdoctoral funding scheme is providing young doctors and natural scientists the opportunity to carry out projects in clinically oriented oncological basic research or clinical cancer research at renowned institutions abroad and for the first time also within Germany. … Continued
The Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology is an international research prize of US$25,000. Since 2002 it has been awarded annually to one young scientist who is not older than 35 years for the most outstanding neurobiological research based on methods of molecular and cell biology conducted by him/her during the past three years.
Eppendorf and Science/AAAS established this international prize in 2002 and acknowledges the increasing importance of Neurobiology research in advancing our understanding of how the brain and nervous system function – … Continued
With funds from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the DAAD PRIME program funds temporary positions at German universities to support the international mobility of postdoctoral researchers.
Postdoctoral researchers who see their long-term career perspectives in Germany receive funding for a research stay abroad based on a temporary position at a German university. … Continued
EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships support excellent postdoctoral researchers throughout Europe and the world for a period of up to two years. International mobility is a key requirement. The fellowship includes a salary or stipend, a relocation allowance and support for fellows with children. Awardees can attend an EMBO Laboratory Leadership course and become part of the global network of EMBO Fellows. … Continued
The fellowships of the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg offer outstanding scientists the opportunity to focus on research without the distractions of everyday academic life, to exchange ideas with colleagues from other disciplines, and to benefit from a diverse and vibrant fellowship community.
Through its fellowship program, the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg promotes scholarships and research in the natural sciences, … Continued
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. … Continued
The new call for the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) is now open until 13 September 2023 (5pm Brussels time) and you can apply for 2-year postdoctoral fellowships. The purpose of these awards is to enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, … Continued
The Peter und Traudl Engelhorn Stiftung is annually awarding 2-year Postdoc Scholarships to outstanding junior scientists in life sciences (e.g. Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Genetics, Proteomics, System Biology, BioMedTech, Biotechnology, BioInformatics, Biophysics). … Continued
Are you a postdoc or PhD student and would like to receive further training in related disciplines? Then apply for the Add-on Fellowships for Interdisciplinary Life Science of the Joachim Herz Foundation. Funded are conference visits, research stays or professional trianing needed in order to gain new insights into relevant research methods. … Continued
The European Liaison Office of the German Research Organizations (KoWi) and the University of Bremen are jointly organizing a one-day information event “Research in Germany” on 25 May 2023. Get an overview on (individual) funding opportunities for early career researchers who aspire to a national and international career in science. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Workshop “From a Successful Job Application to the Job Interview” by Barbara Hoffbauer. This workshop is intended for those postdocs and late stage-PhD students who are already informed about various professional perspectives outside academia and have reflected their own suitability for different career paths.
Date: Friday, … Continued
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! … Continued
Are you doing your doctorate at Göttingen University or are you a postdoc and would like to take a look at industry jobs? Every semester, the Research and Transfer Department and the SüdniedersachsenInnovationsCampus (SNIC) offers excursions to attractive companies. Find out what entry opportunities the participating companies offer you and what requirements are placed on applicants. … Continued
Are you doing your doctorate at Göttingen University or are you a postdoc and would like to take a look at industry jobs? Every semester, the Research and Transfer Department and the SüdniedersachsenInnovationsCampus (SNIC) offers excursions to attractive companies. Find out what entry opportunities the participating companies offer you and what requirements are placed on applicants. … Continued
On behalf of the Organizing Team we are happy to announce that the 8th Women’s Careers and Networks Symposium (WoCaNet) will be held on the 11 – 12 of May 2023 at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences – Faßberg Campus in Göttingen, with the slogan Together Towards Tomorrow. … Continued
Unfortunately there were not enough applications to run the mentoring program “WeWiMento – Wege ins Wissenschaftsmanagement” in 2023. Therefore there will be an alternative program for all interested in this career path. For further information please see below the detailed information in German and further down the different events – … Continued
The BBSRC Discovery Fellowships are now open for applications – also for postdocs from non-UK countries. Take your change and apply for one of these prestigious fellowships by 25 May 2023 (4pm UK time).
The total funds for the fellowships are £ 6 million and the maximium award is £ 500k. … Continued
Are you a postdoc or PhD student and would like to receive further training in related disciplines? Then apply for the Add-on Fellowships for Interdisciplinary Life Science of the Joachim Herz Foundation. Funded are conference visits, research stays or professional trianing needed in order to gain new insights into relevant research methods. … Continued
The new call for the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) is now open until 13 September 2023 (5pm Brussels time) and you can apply for 2-year postdoctoral fellowships. The purpose of these awards is to enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, … Continued
Wuesthoff & Wuesthoff, listed as “Patent Prosecution Firm of the Year 2022”, is advertising for a Biochemist to work as a Patent Attorney Trainee. Applications can be in English or German. The initial contract is for three years (further info about this type of contract is here). … Continued
The University of Bremen is currently advertising for a science manger position (full time, 13-TVL, permanent) to support the HR Team as Referent*in for Tenure Track process and scientific personel structures. Please apply by 21 April 2023. For further details see the job advert here. … Continued
The University Medical Center (UMG) is looking for a Clinical Research Associate (w/m/d) and a Project Manager (w/m/d) for Clinical Studies on a full-time basis, initially for 2 years with the option of extension.
You can find further information on the jobs and the study center at the UMG in the original job adverts here:
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. … Continued
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! … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Workshop “From a Successful Job Application to the Job Interview” by Barbara Hoffbauer. This workshop is intended for those postdocs and late stage-PhD students who are already informed about various professional perspectives outside academia and have reflected their own suitability for different career paths.
Date: Friday, … Continued
We are happy to announce our next virtual GAUSS Career Impulse Session, this time with Dr. Ana Kutschat, Research Fellow at St. Anna Children’s Cancer Research Institute (CCRI) and the Center for Molecular Medicine (CeMM) in Vienna.
Tino Pleiner (IMPRS MolBio Alumnus) is setting up the Pleiner Lab at Stanford Medicine and is looking for a postdoc. To learn more about the post please check out the job advert. To learn more about the Lab see his webpage here and to get to know more about his career path check out the most recent Molecular Biology Newsletter (p. … Continued
The Peter und Traudl Engelhorn Stiftung is annually awarding 2-year Postdoc Scholarships to outstanding junior scientists in life sciences (e.g. Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Genetics, Proteomics, System Biology, BioMedTech, Biotechnology, BioInformatics, Biophysics). … Continued
Interdisciplinary research calls for communication and the right networks. The Joachim Herz Foundation is funding networking events for young scientists in natural sciences with the scheme “Begegnungszonen“. The goal is to forge new contacts, to build interdisciplinary networks and simultaneously getting to know new ways of working and methods. … Continued
The Einstein Forum and the Wittenstein Foundation are offering a the Einstein Fellowship for outstanding young thinkers who wish to pursue a project in a different field from that of their previous research. The purpose of the fellowship is to support those who, in addition to producing superb work in their area of specialization, … Continued
Within the framework of “Researching Research”, 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. … Continued
The Frankfurt-based Aventis Foundation will grant up to three annual research awards for young and talented postdoctoral researchers in life sciences or group leaders (minimum of 3 years postdoc experience). Each award will be endowed with a subsidy amount of € 100,000 to help creative postdocs pursue their innovative research projects and jump-start their careers in life sciences. … Continued
In case you are looking for an IT course or would like to further educate yourself and do some advanced courses in e.g. programming, check out the GWDG Academy website, which offers a diverse programme of courses in data management (e.g. MySQL, GRO Data), software applications (e.g. Photoshop, Illustrator, Affinity Publisher), data analysis (e.g. … Continued
The European Liaison Office of the German Research Organizations (KoWi) and the University of Bremen are jointly organizing a one-day information event “Research in Germany” on 25 May 2023. Get an overview on (individual) funding opportunities for early career researchers who aspire to a national and international career in science. … Continued
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 monthly online information events on new offers for publishing open access. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshop: “Career Planning- What are my further career movements” 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 career outside of university and academia? … Continued
We are happy to announce our first in-person GAUSS Career Impulse Session since the pandemic, this time with Dr. Matthieu Hammer, Director in Case Processing and Quality Management at Merck Group.
The GAUSS Career Service is offering individual counseling and advice sessions where different topics, including CV and application checks, can be covered – no matter if you are pursuing a career inside or outside of academia.
Our goal is to facilitate your career planning and assist you in handling challenges in your current work environment. … Continued
Over the last couple of weeks we updated the GAUSS Career Service Webpage and we would like to highlight here our Trainee Programs and Research Funding Opportunities. … Continued
Due to a short-tem cancellation, we have one free slot in our 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, … Continued
GGNB alumnus Christian Schnell, now senior Editor at Cell Reports (Cell Press, London, UK), will give an introduction to the publishing process at Cell Reports and Cell Press and explain what editors are looking for in your manuscripts, and how they make their decisions. He will also discuss how to find the best journal for your study and what (not) to write in the cover letter. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service Workshop “Conscious leadership inside or outside academia: creating an environment for extraordinary team-work” by Dr. Insa Flachsbarth.
The aim of this two-day workshop is to provide early career researchers with effective tools for actively stepping up into a 360° leadership position – i.e., … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Impulse Session, this time with Dr. Matthieu Hammer, Director in Case Processing and Quality Management at Merck Group.
The GAUSS Career Service is happy to announce our next project management workshop “Fast Forward – The Ultimate Productivity System for Researchers” with Dr. Nadine Sinclair.
Achieve amazing productivity and reduce your stress level in 7 weeks by implementing the productivity secrets that allow management consultants and high-performing industry teams to generate results quickly. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshop: “Career Planning- What are my further career movements” 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 career outside of university and academia? … Continued
The Research and Transfer Services of the University of Göttingen is organising a workshop called “Business Model Canvas“. The workshops is aimed at students and employees of the university and will be held via Zoom in English (duration: 5h). For further details please see below. … Continued
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 monthly online information events on new offers for publishing open access. … Continued
The European Liaison Office of the German Research Organizations (KoWi) and the University of Bremen are jointly organizing a one-day information event “Research in Germany” on 25 May 2023. Get an overview on (individual) funding opportunities for early career researchers who aspire to a national and international career in science. … Continued
In case you are looking for an IT course or would like to further educate yourself and do some advanced courses in e.g. programming, check out the GWDG Academy website, which offers a diverse programme of courses in data management (e.g. MySQL, GRO Data), software applications (e.g. Photoshop, Illustrator, Affinity Publisher), data analysis (e.g. … Continued
The Career Service of the University of Göttingen offers exclusive access to the career development platform GoinGlobal for all Göttingen students who are interested in pursuing an international career. GoinGlobal offers expert advice on global career opportunities, as well as resources designed to facilitate the job search all over the world.
With specific information for more than 120 locations worldwide as well as more than 16 million daily updated international job and internship postings, … Continued
Run jointly by the British Academy, the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal Society, the Newton International Fellowships are for non-UK scientists who are at an early stage of their research career and wish to conduct research in the UK. … Continued
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, … Continued
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? … Continued
The University of Bremen has again opend a call for 3-year independent projects for postdocs – this time the focus is interdisciplinarity. You can apply when you are from Germany or abroad. Regarding the stage of your career you can either apply shortly after your PhD (the certificate needs to be issued max 10 months after the application deadline and not be issued longer than two years before the deadline) or as an advanced postdoc aiming towards a professorship (2-4 years after your PhD). … Continued
The Heinz Billing Prize for “Outstanding Contributions to Computational Science”, awarded by the Heinz Billing Foundation of the Max Planck Society, is open to scientists from all fields (of computational science), who have made significant progress in solving scientific problems with the help of computational tools.
For example:
The Heinz Billing Prize 2023 for the advancement of computational science will be awarded with 5000 EUR. … Continued
The call for the Dorothea Schlözer Postdoc Program with 3 postdoc positions for female researchers (TV-L 13, 100%, term of 2 years) is now open for applications and will close on 15 April 2023. This call is dedicated again to the natural and life sciences as well as the University Medical Center (one position).The positions are scheduled to start on 1 October 2023. … Continued
The Frankfurt-based Aventis Foundation will grant up to three annual research awards for young and talented postdoctoral researchers in life sciences or group leaders (minimum of 3 years postdoc experience). Each award will be endowed with a subsidy amount of € 100,000 to help creative postdocs pursue their innovative research projects and jump-start their careers in life sciences. … Continued
This prize by the German Association for Biomedical Technologies (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Biomedizinische Technik) together with the Family Klee Foundation honors scientific projects in Biomedical Sciences that successfully transferred their genuine ideas to a medical engineering innovation. … Continued
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. … Continued
Within the framework of “Researching Research”, 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. … Continued
The Einstein Forum and the Wittenstein Foundation are offering a the Einstein Fellowship for outstanding young thinkers who wish to pursue a project in a different field from that of their previous research. The purpose of the fellowship is to support those who, in addition to producing superb work in their area of specialization, … Continued
Interdisciplinary research calls for communication and the right networks. The Joachim Herz Foundation is funding networking events for young scientists in natural sciences with the scheme “Begegnungszonen“. The goal is to forge new contacts, to build interdisciplinary networks and simultaneously getting to know new ways of working and methods. … Continued
The Peter und Traudl Engelhorn Stiftung is annually awarding 2-year Postdoc Scholarships to outstanding junior scientists in life sciences (e.g. Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Genetics, Proteomics, System Biology, BioMedTech, Biotechnology, BioInformatics, Biophysics). … Continued
The Göttingen Campus Institute for Dynamics of Biological Networks (CIDBN) is advertising a postdoctoral position in Computational Biophysics. The post will be full-time, pay grade 13 TV-L, and should be filled as soon as possible. The CIDBN Department “Physics of Biological Systems”, headed by Prof. Fred Wolf, offers a fixed-term contract until June 30, … Continued
The University Medical Center (UMG) is looking for a Clinical Research Associate (w/m/d) and a Project Manager (w/m/d) for Clinical Studies on a full-time basis, initially for 2 years with the option of extension.
The application deadline for both posts is 5 April 2023.
You can find further information on the jobs and the study center at the UMG in the original job adverts here:
Tino Pleiner (IMPRS MolBio Alumnus) is setting up the Pleiner Lab at Stanford Medicine and is looking for a postdoc. To learn more about the post please check out the job advert. To learn more about the Lab see his webpage here and to get to know more about his career path check out the most recent Molecular Biology Newsletter (p. … Continued
CrystalsFirst is a biotechnology company with operations in Marburg, Hamburg and Göttingen. CrystalsFirst offers top-notch drug discovery and high-performance structural biology services. Our clients are leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in Europe, USA, and Asia. They are looking for a motivated and detail-oriented scientist to join our protein production team in Göttingen, … Continued
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 – 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).
… Continued
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. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Impulse Sessions in the new year, this time with Dr. Barbara Krüger, Senior Scientist at CureVac.
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Impulse Sessions in the new year, this time with Dr. Sukanya Sengupta, Application Specialist at Thermo Fisher Scientific.
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? … Continued
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, … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service Workshop “Conscious leadership inside or outside academia: creating an environment for extraordinary team-work” by Dr. Insa Flachsbarth.
The aim of this two-day workshop is to provide early career researchers with effective tools for actively stepping up into a 360° leadership position – i.e., … Continued
The GAUSS Career Service is happy to announce our next project management workshop “Fast Forward – The Ultimate Productivity System for Researchers” with Dr. Nadine Sinclair.
Achieve amazing productivity and reduce your stress level in 7 weeks by implementing the productivity secrets that allow management consultants and high-performing industry teams to generate results quickly. … Continued
The University of Göttingen set up a new funding scheme within the Dorothea Schlözer Program funded by the Programme for Female Professors III. The scheme “Career promotion of female scientists” is aiming to compensate for structural disadvantages of women in science and, in the long term, to increase the proportion of women at all stages of the scientific career. … Continued
We are happy to announce that the 7th call of the science management mentoring program “WeWiMento – Wege ins Wissenschaftsmanagement“ is now open until 15 March 2023! WeWiMento is aiming at doctoral students and early postdocs from all disciplines at the Göttingen Campus who are interested in a career in science management. … Continued
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! … Continued
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 from 14:30 to 17:30h at the Historische Sternwarte.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.). … Continued
The European Liaison Office of the German Research Organizations (KoWi) and the University of Bremen are jointly organizing a one-day information event “Research in Germany” on 25 May 2023. Get an overview on (individual) funding opportunities for early career researchers who aspire to a national and international career in science. … Continued
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 monthly online information events on new offers for publishing open access. … Continued
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. … Continued
The ENLIGHT consortium supports new and ongoing joint R&I projects (proposals) jointly conducted by early career researchers from different (minimum two) ENLIGHT consortium partners. Thereto it finances 20 mobility/travel awards – of up to maximum € 1,000.- each – to help deepen the envisioned plans for these joint collaborations. The aim of this seed money is to stimulate and support (new) ENLIGHT RISE R&I collaborations and projects on ENLIGHT flagship challenges between early career researchers from various/different consortium partners. … Continued
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 receive a full-time post as well as substitutes for research expenses. … Continued
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. … Continued
The German Research Foundation (DFG) is launching a joint call, as partner of the ERA-NET NEURON, for research proposals on the topic “Mechanisms of Resilience and Vulnerability to Environmental Challenges in Mental Health”. The aim of the call is to promote multinational, collaborative research projects, especially those that combine basic, clinical and/or technological approaches across disciplines, … Continued
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. … Continued
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 project. … Continued
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? … Continued
Run jointly by the British Academy, the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal Society, the Newton International Fellowships are for non-UK scientists who are at an early stage of their research career and wish to conduct research in the UK. … Continued
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, … Continued
The University of Bremen has again opend a call for 3-year independent projects for postdocs – this time the focus is interdisciplinarity. You can apply when you are from Germany or abroad. Regarding the stage of your career you can either apply shortly after your PhD (the certificate needs to be issued max 10 months after the application deadline and not be issued longer than two years before the deadline) or as an advanced postdoc aiming towards a professorship (2-4 years after your PhD). … Continued
The call for the Dorothea Schlözer Postdoc Program with 3 postdoc positions for female researchers (TV-L 13, 100%, term of 2 years) is now open for applications and will close on 15 April 2023. This call is dedicated again to the natural and life sciences as well as the University Medical Center (one position).The positions are scheduled to start on 1 October 2023. … Continued
The Einstein Forum and the Wittenstein Foundation are offering a the Einstein Fellowship for outstanding young thinkers who wish to pursue a project in a different field from that of their previous research. The purpose of the fellowship is to support those who, in addition to producing superb work in their area of specialization, … Continued
Interdisciplinary research calls for communication and the right networks. The Joachim Herz Foundation is funding networking events for young scientists in natural sciences with the scheme “Begegnungszonen“. The goal is to forge new contacts, to build interdisciplinary networks and simultaneously getting to know new ways of working and methods. … Continued
The Career Service of the University of Göttingen offers exclusive access to the career development platform GoinGlobal for all Göttingen students who are interested in pursuing an international career. GoinGlobal offers expert advice on global career opportunities, as well as resources designed to facilitate the job search all over the world.
With specific information for more than 120 locations worldwide as well as more than 16 million daily updated international job and internship postings, … Continued
Tino Pleiner (IMPRS MolBio Alumnus) is setting up the Pleiner Lab at Stanford Medicine and is looking for a postdoc. To learn more about the post please check out the job advert. To learn more about the Lab see his webpage here and to get to know more about his career path check out the most recent Molecular Biology Newsletter (p. … Continued
CrystalsFirst is a biotechnology company with operations in Marburg, Hamburg and Göttingen. CrystalsFirst offers top-notch drug discovery and high-performance structural biology services. Our clients are leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in Europe, USA, and Asia. They are looking for a motivated and detail-oriented scientist to join our protein production team in Göttingen, … Continued
The Medical University of Hanover is hiring a Project Manager for an international project for personalised infection medicine (full-time, TVL, inititally for 2 years). Apply by 19 February 2023.
For the full job advert see here: Projektmanagerin_Kennziffer-1662 … Continued
The Leuphana University in Lüneburg is currently advertising for a science manger position (full time, 13-TVL, 2 years) to support the HR Team as Referent*in for academic staff development. Please apply by 24 February 2023. For further details see the job advert here. … Continued
The University Medical Center (UMG) is looking for a Clinical Data Manager (m/f/d) f on a full-time basis, initially for 2 years with the option of extension.The application deadline for this post is 28 February 2023 and you will find further information on the post and the study center at the UMG in the original job advert here:
Job advert Clinical Data Manager … Continued
The University of Hamburg is advertising a science manager position to support the graduate office of the Faculty of Mathematics, Computer and Natural Sciences. The permanent position is currently part-time (80% with the option to add more hours), 13-TVL and should be filled as soon as possible. Please apply by 2 March 2023. For further details see the job advert here. … Continued
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) is currently advertising for Science Management position in their department GKF (Graduiertenkollegs und Karriereförderung / Research Trainings Groups and Career Development). The full-time position is initially until 31.12.2025 but with options to extend the contract. Salary is on TVL-13 level. Please apply by 5 March 2023 and check out the details for the job advert here. … Continued
The Göttingen Campus Institute for Dynamics of Biological Networks (CIDBN) is advertising a postdoctoral position in Computational Biophysics. The post will be full-time, pay grade 13 TV-L, and should be filled as soon as possible. The CIDBN Department “Physics of Biological Systems”, headed by Prof. Fred Wolf, offers a fixed-term contract until June 30, … Continued
We are happy to announce our first GAUSS Career Impulse Session in 2023 with Head of Data Science Dr Martin Helm (Vilua).
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. … Continued
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? … Continued
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, … Continued
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. … Continued
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.). … Continued
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) … Continued
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. … Continued
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. … Continued
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)” … Continued
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. … Continued
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. … Continued
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! … Continued
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 monthly online information events on new offers for publishing open access. … Continued
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 in their field of research. … Continued
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, … Continued
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. … Continued
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. … Continued
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. … Continued
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 project. … Continued
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, … Continued
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? … Continued
Run jointly by the British Academy, the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal Society, the Newton International Fellowships are for non-UK scientists who are at an early stage of their research career and wish to conduct research in the UK. … Continued
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 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. … Continued
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 and to optimize the framework conditions for scientific qualification. … Continued
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, … Continued
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 job advert here:
Job advert Project Manager for clinical studies … Continued
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. … Continued
To the end of this year, we very much regret to see Dr Vera Bissinger leaving the GAUSS Career Service. Joining us during Stefanie’s parental leave in November 2019, Vera was always a very valued member of our team and for now nearly three years (with a short break from February to August 2021) did a fantastic job in her role. … Continued
Ther are only very few places available for our first GAUSS Career Workshop in 2023 “How to find your postdoctoral position” by Dr Dagmar Sigurdardottir. This workshop is intended for early postdocs and late-stage PhD students who are looking for their first or next postdoctoral position.
Dates: Thursday, 12 January 2023, 9:00-17:30h and Friday, … Continued
We are happy to announce our first +GAUSS Career Impulse Session in 2023 with Head of Data Science Dr Martin Helm (Vilua).
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 scientist 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. … Continued
The GWDG Academy has now published their course program until end of July 2023. Check out the different offers as there are many places still available. You will find the program here. … Continued
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. … Continued
The Research and Transfer Services of the University of Göttingen in cooperation with the Falling Walls Foundation 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. … Continued
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) just opened the next call for the “Communicator Award – Science Award of the Donors’ Association“. The Communicator Prize is awarded for outstanding achievements in science communication and comes with a prize money of 50,000€. The prize is awarded by the DFG and the Donors’ … Continued
In order to support joint activities between the nine ENLIGHT universities (Universities of Bordeaux, Galway, Gent, Göttingen, Groningen, Uppsala and Tartu, the University of the Basque Country and Comenius Bratislava) in the area of education and research, the University of Göttingen will fund virtual exchange and blended mobility schemes, as well as the organisation of international workshops and summer schools. … Continued
The Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators was first established in 1995. It acknowledges outstanding contributions to biomedical research in Europe based on methods of molecular biology, including novel analytical concepts. The winner is selected by an independent expert committee chaired by Reinhard Jahn (Director Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, … Continued
The Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science is a community of exceptional young scientists who share a passion for taking research beyond the mainstream. Fellows are given the means to pursue their personal vision of a particular scientific project independently – in the best possible locations, anywhere in the world. The fellowship is awarded to postdocs for up to five years. … Continued
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 in their field of research. … Continued
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, … Continued
ERC Consolidator Grants (up to 5 years and € 2 million) are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or program.
Researchers of any nationality with 7-12 years of experience since completion of PhD (Extensions are possible under certain circumstances — see the latest ERC Work Programme), … Continued
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. … Continued
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. … Continued
IQST (Centre for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology) is a center across the Universities of Stuttgart and Ulm, and the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart. They are currently looking for a Science and Communication Manager (m/w/d) and the position is to be filled as soon as possible and limited until 31.12.2026. … Continued
We are happy to inform you that our Workshop Program for 2023 is now online available via this link. Feel free to scroll through and check out which courses might be of interest for your career development – either in acedmia or industry. If you already want to sign up for a workshop, … Continued
We’re happy to announce our next online GAUSS Career Impulse Session with Transformation Management Officer Dr Ina Klusmann, MBA (Evonik).
We’re happy to announce our next online GAUSS Career Impulse Session with Senior Data Scientist Dr Debsankha Manik (MOIA GmbH.).
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Workshop “From a Successful Job Application to the Job Interview” by Barbara Hoffbauer. This workshop is intended for those postdocs and late stage-PhD students who are already informed about various professional perspectives outside academia and have reflected their own suitability for different career paths.
Date: Monday, … Continued
We are happy to announce our first GAUSS Career Workshop in 2023 “How to find your postdoctoral position” by Dr Dagmar Sigurdardottir. This workshop is intended for early postdocs and late-stage PhD students who are looking for their first or next postdoctoral position.
Dates: Thursday, 12 January 2023, 9:00-17:30h and Friday, 13 January 2023, … Continued
The University of Göttingen is offering again the Dorothea Schlözer Mentoring Program and the Dorothea Schlözer Career Coaching Program for female postdocs and in case of the mentoring also for female doctoral candidates (in their final year) at Göttingen Campus, designed to accompany young female researchers through this phase of their development. … Continued
SNIC is organising a virtual excursion to the reinsurer Hannover Rück on 15 November 2022 at 2-4pm. With more than 3,000 employees at nearly 30 locations worldwide, Hannover Rück is the third-largest internationally operating reinsurer in the world and an exciting employer. Via Zoom, an alumnus of the University of Göttingen will provide insights into his career start and professional development at Hannover Rück. … Continued
The Human Ressources Department of the University is organising an information event on the Wissenschaftszeitvertraggesetz on Wednesday, 16 November 2022 at 12:00-13:00h. Please register via this link if you are interested in the event. … Continued
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! … Continued
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 qualified applicants and win them over for your company, … Continued
The Founding Walls Foundation is offering the online Workshop “Your Online Pitch” on 22 November 2022 from 9 am to 1 pm. You want to be prepared for your next networking event, research presentation or elevator pitch? In this workshop, you learn and practise how to convince supporters or investors of your vision and personality. Develop your pitch storyline and receive feedback from our experts and an interdisciplinary team of peers, … Continued
How much of an entrepreneur is in you? Find out in our intensive two-day online workshop tailored to PhD’s and postdocs of all disciplines! Learn how to turn your PhD into a startup idea, meet real-life innovators & train your pitch story in front of the camera. Discover your hidden potential together with other high-calibre researchers, … Continued
The Research and Transfer Services of the University of Göttingen in cooperation with the Falling Walls Foundation 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. … Continued
ERC Consolidator Grants (up to 5 years and € 2 million) are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or program.
Researchers of any nationality with 7-12 years of experience since completion of PhD (Extensions are possible under certain circumstances — see the latest ERC Work Programme), … Continued
FFG, Kowi and Euresearch, supporting the D-A-CH community, cordially invite to an online exchange on first experiences with the new possibilities of transferring results from basic research projects with help of the ERC Proof of Concept, EIC Pathfinder and Transition programmes in Horizon Europe (in English).
The event will take place online on 30 November 2022 10:00-13:00h. … Continued
The Research Management of the University Medical Center Göttingen will provide a concise overview of the Funding Opportunities of the European Research Council (ERC), including the different PI profiles for the Starting, Consolidator, Advanced and Synergy Grants, the proposal structure and necessary steps until the submission. The presentation should serve as an introduction about the ERC funding and will take about 25 minutes, … Continued
Are you considering to apply for a Marie Curie Fellowship and would you like to book an online MSCA consultation? Here you can easily book a consultation appointment with the KoWi MSCA advisors. KoWi advises you as a scientist, EU officer or administrator of a German university or research institution on all MSCA funding schemes. We advise you in German or English. … Continued
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 €). … Continued
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. … Continued
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) just opened the next call for the “Communicator Award – Science Award of the Donors’ Association“. The Communicator Prize is awarded for outstanding achievements in science communication and comes with a prize money of 50,000€. The prize is awarded by the DFG and the Donors’ … Continued
The Walter Benjamin Program enables researchers in the postdoctoral training phase to independently conduct their own research project at a location of their choice for 2 years. The project can be carried out at a research institution in Germany or abroad, with the host institution providing support for the project. … Continued
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has two postdoc research funding opportunites, which might be of particular interest for you.
The Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship supports postdoctoral researchers who want to join a lab outside of Germany to do their own research project with a duration of 6-24 months. … Continued
CureVac AG is a global biopharmaceutical company researching and developing novel drugs based on the natural molecule Messenger RNA (mRNA). Currently, all RNA people are striving to achieve our main goal: To bring multiple best-in-class mRNA drugs to market.
If you want to join this exciting endavour then check out their latest job opening at their site in Tübingen near Stuttgart:
Scientist (f/m/d) Process Development Downstream Drug Substance
For the full job advert follow this link. … Continued
Bioventure is looking for candidates with a PhD to fill an open position as a Bioscientist for life science technology analysis (permanent or freelance position). The original job advert is in German and availabe here:
Stellenausschreibung Biowissenschaftler.
For an English translation see below. … Continued
The Göttingen Campus Postdoc Committee is looking for new members – this time also from the mathematics, natural and life sciences. If you are interested please read the Melissa Sollich’s message below.
All the best,
Stefanie … Continued
Join the new GZMB lunch time seminar series, where group members from research groups of the Göttingen Campus have the opportunity to present their research in short talks (30min) followed by 5-10min discussion. The talks will take place on five Fridays in October and November from 12.15-13.00 in the large seminar room (-1.101/2) of the Schwann Schleiden Research Center. … Continued
On 21 November 2022, it’s time again:
Clear the stage for science! After a successful start in spring, the popular Science Slam will take place again in the central lecture hall building of the University of Göttingen (ZHG010). In just 10 minutes, young scientists give an exciting insight into their research – … Continued
We are happy to inform you that our Workshop Program for 2023 is now online available via this link. Feel free to scroll through and check out which courses might be of interest for your career development – either in acedmia or industry. If you already want to sign up for a workshop, … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service online workshop “On your Path to Professorship” by Prof. Dr. Annette Kolb.
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Workshop “From a Successful Job Application to the Job Interview” by Barbara Hoffbauer. This workshop is intended for those postdocs and late stage-PhD students who are already informed about various professional perspectives outside academia and have reflected their own suitability for different career paths.
Date: Monday, … Continued
We’re happy to announce our next online GAUSS Career Impulse Session with Transformation Management Officer Dr Ina Klusmann, MBA (Evonik).
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 online information events on new offers for publishing open access. … Continued
The Göttingen Campus (GC) Postdoc Network is inviting applications from you to join the GC Postdoc Committee. They are looking for your ideas, input, and energy to make the Göttingen Campus a better place for Postdocs.
The GC Postdoc Committee’s mission:
The Human Ressources Department of the University is organising an information event on the Wissenschaftszeitvertraggesetz on Wednesday, 16 November 2022 at 12:00-13:00h. Please register via this link if you are interested in the event. … Continued
How much of an entrepreneur is in you? Find out in our intensive two-day online workshop tailored to PhD’s and postdocs of all disciplines! Learn how to turn your PhD into a startup idea, meet real-life innovators & train your pitch story in front of the camera. Discover your hidden potential together with other high-calibre researchers, … Continued
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 qualified applicants and win them over for your company, … Continued
Are you (possibly) interested in starting your own business? The Start-up Initiative (Max Planck Foundation) offers the following workshop “Identify the Ideal Application Scenario for your Technology / Scientific Solution!” on Wednesday, 26 October 2022 at 9:00-13:00 in the large seminar room of the MPI-nat (Faßberg). Please register for the workshop until Friday, … Continued
Join this online workshop when you are interested in how to build and grow professional networks and research collaborations. Two researchers will share their experiences.
Prof Jane Walsh is a Health Psychologist and Director of the Mobile Technology and Health (mHealth) Research Group at the University of Galway, where she leads a programme of research on personalised connected health. … Continued
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! … Continued
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. … Continued
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, … Continued
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. … Continued
If you are interested in how to apply for lump sum funding from the EU, participating in this workshop on 20 October 2022 at 10-12 CEST is highly recommended. It is streamed via Youtube via the event’s webpage where you will also find further information. … Continued
Also featured in Melissa Sollich’s newsletter:
If you’re considering an EU-Funding application, you might also like this KOWI podcast by astrophysicist Dr Manuel Meyer: Postdocs watch out! How to get EU-funding.
For more episoldes of the KOWI Podcast on funding schemes and related issues, … Continued
ERC Consolidator Grants (up to 5 years and € 2 million) are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or program.
Researchers of any nationality with 7-12 years of experience since completion of PhD (Extensions are possible under certain circumstances — see the latest ERC Work Programme), … Continued
The funding scheme MSCA4Ukraine has been launched end of September and is specifically for Ukranian Scientists who want to apply for a fellowship of 6 to 24 months duration, which provides them the opportunity to continue their work at a host institution in an EU Member State or a Horizon Europe Associated Country preparing them to return to Ukraine one day. … Continued
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, … Continued
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. … Continued
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. … Continued
The goal of the EMBO New Venture Fellowship is to support early career scientists, in any field of life science research, who would use this opportunity to enter a new field of research. The intention of these fellowships is to support high quality candidates to explore feasible projects or generate preliminary data to help transform their research trajectory. … Continued
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. … Continued
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 €). … Continued
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) just opened the next call for the “Communicator Award – Science Award of the Donors’ Association“. The Communicator Prize is awarded for outstanding achievements in science communication and comes with a prize money of 50,000€. The prize is awarded by the DFG and the Donors’ … Continued
Claudio Joazeiro is growing his lab at the Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University and is hiring postdocs working on Translational Quality Control: Mechanisms, Role in Neurodegeneration, and Drug Discovery. Please see more details here: PhD and post-doc ad Sept 2022.
If you are interested in joining the lab please contact Claudio (c.joazeir@zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de) including your CV, … Continued
Bioventure is looking for candidates with a PhD to fill an open position as a Bioscientist for life science technology analysis (permanent or freelance position). The original job advert is in German and availabe here:
Stellenausschreibung Biowissenschaftler.
For an English translation see below. … Continued
Your science on stage!
Did you ever think about telling the public what your work is about? Then a Science Slam might be the perfect occasion for you! In November, the Göttingen Science Slam will (finally!) take place again live and in front of an audience in the ZHG. We are still looking for dedicated slammers who want to present their research on stage in an entertaining way. … Continued
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, … Continued
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.
Please note that currently – … Continued
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. … Continued
We’re happy to announce our first GAUSS Career Impulse Session on academic careers this year with Group Leader Dr Sinem Saka (EMBL, Heidelberg).
We’re happy to announce our next online GAUSS Career Impulse Session with Clinical Project Manager Dr Marco Becker (AstraZeneca).
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. … Continued
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 am and 5:00 pm in English as part of the Medical Faculty Career Days. … Continued
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, … Continued
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. … Continued
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 qualified applicants and win them over for your company, … Continued
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. … Continued
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. … Continued
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, … Continued
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. … Continued
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 online information events on new offers for publishing open access. … Continued
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), … Continued
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. … Continued
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, … Continued
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. … Continued
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. … Continued
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. … Continued
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 €). … Continued
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. … Continued
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) … Continued
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, … Continued
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. … Continued
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, … Continued
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. … Continued
Scientists hold the key to breakthrough life-science innovations. Translating innovation into benefits for society requires entrepreneurial spirit and expertise. By combining the scientific, entrepreneurial and educational excellence, the founding partners who started the Life Science Entrepreneurship Academy, LISEAD, aim to bridge that gap and empower more scientists to become successful entrepreneurs.
For further details on the workshops please see this link or this PDF document (LISEAD Flyer_Bootcamp 2022). … Continued
In about one month, on 14 September 2022, the deadline for submitting applications for the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships (PF) call 2022 ends. As a researcher you have the opportunity to make use of our individual KoWi advisory service for MSCA applications in which they read through your applications. Please send them the complete application documents until 24 August 2022 (MSCA PF). … Continued
The new call for the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) is now open until 14 September 2022 (5pm Brussels time) and you can apply for 2-year postdoctoral fellowships. The purpose of these awards is to enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, … Continued
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. … Continued
The Ruhr University in Bochum is looking for a full-time and permanent science manager to support their team at the earliest date possible. Your tasks will include project management and inter-university communication. You will work closely with the RAR’s Board and with the respective institutions of the three Ruhr Area universities for the promotion of scientists on their career path in order to network the offers for the different target groups. … Continued
The department for Human Resoursces at the University of Göttingen is looking for a science manager to support the next application of the excellence stragegy in the field of talent management and development of junior scientists.
“Referent*in für Talentmanagement und Nachwuchsförderung – Exzellenzstrategie (w/m/d) – Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L – 50%, befristet bis 30.11.2025″ … Continued
The University of Göttingen in Germany is currently inviting applications for two positions for Scientific coordinators (all genders welcome) each with 50 % of the regular working hour (currently 19,9 hours per week) starting as soon as possible. The salary offered for this position is in accordance with the German collective labor agreement for public sector TV-L E13. … Continued
We’re happy to announce our first GAUSS Career Impulse Session on academic careers this year with Group Leader Dr Sinem Saka (EMBL, Heidelberg).
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshop “Leadership Skills for Scientists” by Dr. Alexander Britz.
Advancing as a scientist, both out- as well as inside academia, comes with increased leadership responsibilities. In this interactive workshop the participants learn the essential leadership skills which are necessary to be successful as a PhD student or Postdoc and to later facilitate a successful transition to a senior position at a research institution or the dream job outside academia. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next project management workshop “Fast Forward – The Ultimate Productivity System for Researchers” with Dr. Nadine Sinclair.
Please note – this workshop has a different format than our usual ones and is more time demanding – please see below for further details.
Achieve amazing productivity and reduce your stress level in 7 weeks by implementing the productivity secrets that allow management consultants and high-performing industry teams to generate results quickly. … Continued
The Alumni Göttingen Chapter Physics is organizing a career talk on 31 August 2022 with Dr Dirk Hönig on “How much time do you have for physics in a physics startup?”
Already during his physics diploma thesis in 1991 at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, alumnus Dirk Hönig founded his first company to market an invention in the field of thin-film measurement technology. … Continued
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! … Continued
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 am and 5:00 pm in English as part of the Medical Faculty Career Days. … Continued
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. … Continued
In cooperation with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) the DAAD gives highly qualified postdocs the possibility of a 1-6 month research stay at Japanese universities or research institutions. PhD students can apply for stays for up to 12 months.
The program is open for German postdocs and PhD students (and those with a permanent residence permit for Germany) of all subjects. … Continued
Are you interested in joining the renowned DKFZ? Then take your opportunity and apply for one of their Postdoctoral Fellowships representing the most prestigious and competitive postdoc recruitment process at the DKFZ. It is intended to recruit highly talented and motivated young scientist, who wish to work at the forefront of cancer research in any of basic or translational cancer research labs at the DKFZ. … Continued
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. … Continued
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), … Continued
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. … Continued
The Walter Benjamin Program enables researchers in the postdoctoral training phase to independently conduct their own research project at a location of their choice for 2 years. The project can be carried out at a research institution in Germany or abroad, with the host institution providing support for the project. … Continued
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has two postdoc research funding opportunites, which might be of particular interest for you.
The Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship supports postdoctoral researchers who want to join a lab outside of Germany to do their own research project with a duration of 6-24 months. … Continued
The GAUSS Career Service Office will be closed for summer holidays from 29 July to 15 August 2022. During this period we are not organising any workshops or events and won’t have email access but will respond to your queries on our return.
Please note that all the appointments for counselling sessions and CV/applications checks are already fully booked in July. … Continued
Check out our new section Alumni on the GAUSS webpage to learn more about …
… the GAUSS Alumni Network. Our aim and ambition in the long run is to build a network of dedicated graduates committed to share their experience and to stay in touch with their former peers. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service online workshop “Mastering my Job Interview” by Dr. Alexander Britz.
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? … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshop “Leadership Skills for Scientists” by Dr. Alexander Britz.
Advancing as a scientist, both out- as well as inside academia, comes with increased leadership responsibilities. In this interactive workshop the participants learn the essential leadership skills which are necessary to be successful as a PhD student or Postdoc and to later facilitate a successful transition to a senior position at a research institution or the dream job outside academia. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next project management workshop “Fast Forward – The Ultimate Productivity System for Researchers” with Dr. Nadine Sinclair.
Please note – this workshop has a different format than our usual ones and is more time demanding – please see below for further details.
Achieve amazing productivity and reduce your stress level in 7 weeks by implementing the productivity secrets that allow management consultants and high-performing industry teams to generate results quickly. … Continued
The Transfer & Startup Hub of the Göttingen University is organizing the workshop “Brand Yourself” on 29 July 2022 (9-16:00h). The workshop is open to PhD students of all disciplines and will be held in German only. For the workshop description (translated into English) and how to register see below. … Continued
The Alumni Göttingen Chapter Physics is organizing a career talk on 31 August 2022 with Dr Dirk Hönig on “How much time do you have for physics in a physics startup?”
Already during his physics diploma thesis in 1991 at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, alumnus Dirk Hönig founded his first company to market an invention in the field of thin-film measurement technology. … Continued
The CCC-N is inviting to their First Annual Young Cancer Scientist Symposium on 12 November 2022 (9am onwards) at the HS55, UMG, Robert-Koch-Straße 40, 37075 Göttingen.
In the third year of the pandemic, an entire generation of young scientists focusing on cancer has had little opportunity to interact with other researchers in person. The meeting is intended to enable them to present their work, … Continued
The University’s EU Office is organizing an information event (21 July) on the upcoming ERC Starting Grant Call, which is scheduled to be opened on 12 July 2022 and closing on 25 October 2022.
If you are interested in applying and learning more about this funding scheme, please see below for further details of this info session. … Continued
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), … Continued
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. … Continued
EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships support excellent postdoctoral researchers throughout Europe and the world for a period of up to two years. International mobility is a key requirement. The fellowship includes a salary or stipend, a relocation allowance and support for fellows with children. Awardees can attend an EMBO Laboratory Leadership course and become part of the global network of EMBO Fellows. … Continued
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. … Continued
In cooperation with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) the DAAD gives highly qualified postdocs the possibility of a 1-6 month research stay at Japanese universities or research institutions. PhD students can apply for stays for up to 12 months.
The program is open for German postdocs and PhD students (and those with a permanent residence permit for Germany) of all subjects. … Continued
This year’s call for the Peter & Traudl Engelhorn Foundation Research Prize is now open inviting applications on the topic “Chain Folding, Macromolecular Aggregation and Controlled Hydrolysis of Proteins and/or DNA/RNA – Fundamentals and Perspectives for Medical Therapies“.
The biennial Research Prize is endowed with €10,000 and the call will close on 10 September 2022. … Continued
The new call for the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) is now open until 14 September 2022 (5pm Brussels time) and you can apply for 2-year postdoctoral fellowships. The purpose of these awards is to enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, … Continued
Are you interested in joining the renowned DKFZ? Then take your opportunity and apply for one of their Postdoctoral Fellowships representing the most prestigious and competitive postdoc recruitment process at the DKFZ. It is intended to recruit highly talented and motivated young scientist, who wish to work at the forefront of cancer research in any of basic or translational cancer research labs at the DKFZ. … Continued
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. … Continued
In the group of Prof Thomas Jentsch (FMP/MDC Berlin) there are currently openings for postdocs in Cell Biology / Physiology. Take you chance and apply now! For further details see below or check out the job advert (Postdoc_Jentsch _Juli 2022). … Continued
Evotec in Göttingen is looking for new talents to join their DataScience Department, specifically their teams “Computational Biology” and “Bioinformatics”.
If you are keen on a career in this sector and on joining a fast growing company in Göttingen, where numerous of our alumni are already working, … Continued
We need your help in reaching out to so many postdocs who are not aware of the different support structures explicitly created and available for them!
In addition to the GAUSS Career Service specialised for those working in mathematics, natural and life sciences, there is also the Göttingen Campus Postdoc Network available to all postdocs from all disciplines – … Continued
Over the last couple of weeks we updated the GAUSS Career Service Webpage and included some new features you might have missed, but which we would like to highlight here: Trainee Programs and Research Funding Opportunities with a new category. … Continued
We’re happy to announce our last GAUSS Career Impulse Session before the summer break with Dr. Hendrik Urbanke (Evotec).
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshop “Job Hunting and Application Skills” by Dr. Gaby Schilling.
The target group for this workshop are postdoctoral scientists and late-stage PhD students who are currently applying or planning to apply for a position in industry or other areas outside academia. The goal of this course is to becoming familiar with all steps involved in the application process. … Continued
We are happy to announce the 9-week online workshop “Resilience Training for Researchers” with Dr. Nadine Sinclair and Paul Sinclair. Register by 15 July 2022!
Many researchers find the stress of academia challenging. After all, researchers tend to taste failure more often than success in their day-to-day experiments. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next project management workshop “Fast Forward – The Ultimate Productivity System for Researchers” with Dr. Nadine Sinclair.
Achieve amazing productivity and reduce your stress level in 7 weeks by implementing the productivity secrets that allow management consultants and high-performing industry teams to generate results quickly. … Continued
The Göttingen Campus is organising the next “Postdoc Support and Information Fair” on Thursday, 23 June 2022, 3-5 pm (including social event from 5pm onwards) at the Alte Mensa, Wilhelmplatz 3, 37073 Göttingen
Come along and chat with experts from across the Campus. There will be information about careers, mentoring, science communication and good research practice. … Continued
The “to-be-honest”-conference provides a forum where peers and experts share advice and you gain informal knowledge – the kind that is usually based on watercooler conversations or lucky coincidences. Registration is now open!
The conference is aiming to help you to
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! … Continued
The Transfer & Startup Hub of the Göttingen University is organizing the workshop “Brand Yourself” on 29 July 2022 (9-16:00h). The workshop is open to PhD students of all disciplines and will be held in German only. For the workshop description (translated into English) and how to register see below. … Continued
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. … Continued
The Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists is an annual prize awarded to early-career scientists in the fields of Cell and Molecular Biology, Ecology and Environment, Molecular Medicine, Genomics, Proteomics and Systems Biology approaches. If selected as a winner, … Continued
The Peter und Traudl Engelhorn Stiftung is annually awarding 2-year Postdoc Scholarships to outstanding junior scientists in life sciences (e.g. Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Genetics, Proteomics, System Biology, BioMedTech, Biotechnology, BioInformatics, Biophysics). … Continued
In cooperation with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) the DAAD gives highly qualified postdocs the possibility of a 1-6 month research stay at Japanese universities or research institutions. PhD students can apply for stays for up to 12 months.
The program is open for German postdocs and PhD students (and those with a permanent residence permit for Germany) of all subjects. … Continued
EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships support excellent postdoctoral researchers throughout Europe and the world for a period of up to two years. International mobility is a key requirement. The fellowship includes a salary or stipend, a relocation allowance and support for fellows with children. Awardees can attend an EMBO Laboratory Leadership course and become part of the global network of EMBO Fellows. … Continued
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. … Continued
The new call for the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) is now open until 14 September 2022 (5pm Brussels time) and you can apply for 2-year postdoctoral fellowships. The purpose of these awards is to enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, … Continued
Evotec in Göttingen is looking for new talents to join their DataScience Department, specifically their teams “Computational Biology” and “Bioinformatics”.
If you are keen on a career in this sector and on joining a fast growing company in Göttingen, where numerous of our alumni are already working, … Continued
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, … Continued
MOIA is growing their team in Hamburg and are looking for a Data Scientist with Optimization/Operation Research focus. Please find further details below.
If you are interested in applying, please get in touch with us by email (career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de) as we can connect you to our alumni Deb, … Continued
The UMG is still growing their team in Clinical Research Support. Currently there is one open position closing on 17 June 2022. So if you are interested in joining their team, apply to the post featured below.
Clinical Research Associate (m/w/d), full-time, TV-L E13, start date is ideally 1 July 2022 and the post is initially limited until 30 June 2024 (however with the option to extend). … Continued
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). … Continued
We are very grateful to Melissa Sollich who is conducting the Göttingen Campus wide postdoc newsletter, that we are allowed to copy her Ukraine section to feature it here as it is a great summary of available support and how you can help.
The University webpages (United against the war in Ukraine / Gemeinsam gegen den Krieg in der Ukraine) have useful links for people here who want to help. … Continued
We’re happy to announce our first ever hybrid GAUSS Career Impulse Session with Dr. Cindy Wechsler (Pfizer Manufacturing Deutschland GmbH).
We’re happy to announce our next online GAUSS Career Impulse Session with Dr. Ole Frister (Bayer AG).
We are happy to announce our next online GAUSS Career Service workshop: “A Career in Academia” by Dr. Neela Enke.
Am I suited for a career in academia? And what does it take to become a professor? Are there alternatives? These questions are crucial for scientists throughout their postdoc phase. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next in-person GAUSS Career Service workshop this year: “Job Hunting and Application Skills” by Dr. Gaby Schilling.
The target group for this workshop are postdoctoral scientists and late-stage PhD students who are currently applying or planning to apply for a position in industry or other areas outside academia. … Continued
Since 2012, publishing in Open Access journals has been financially supported by the University’s Publication Fund. In the meantime, the range of OA publishing options has expanded considerably through a wide variety of publishing and licensing agreements. For example, through the DEAL agreements with Springer Nature and Wiley, authors at the University of Göttingen have recently been able to publish free of charge in subscription-based journals. … Continued
The CRC Lecture Series is featuring in June GAUSS alumna Rituparna Chakrabarti, a broad-spectrum scientist and currently a Scientific Editor at iScience. Rituparna will give two talks on 9 and 10 June 2022, respectively, about the publishing sector.
Both lectures will take place at the Center for Biostructual Imaging of Neurodegeneration (BIN), Von-Siebold-Str. … Continued
The “to-be-honest”-conference provides a forum where peers and experts share advice and you gain informal knowledge – the kind that is usually based on watercooler conversations or lucky coincidences. Registration is now open!
The conference is aiming to help you to
The Göttingen Campus is organising the next “Postdoc Support and Information Fair” on Thursday, 23 June 2022, 3-5 pm (including social event from 5pm onwards) at the Alte Mensa, Wilhelmplatz 3, 37073 Göttingen
Come along and chat with experts from across the Campus. There will be information about careers, mentoring, science communication and good research practice. … Continued
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! … Continued
An infographic visualizes complex relationships particularly efficiently. Without long reading, connections and structures are impressively presented and quickly grasped. With the special award for the best infographic, the Klaus Tschira Foundation would like to give recent doctoral graduates the opportunity to present a central research result or a newly developed method to a non-scientific public. … Continued
Are you a postdoc, PhD student or junior professor and would like to receive further training in related disciplines? Then apply for the Add-on Fellowships for Interdisciplinary Life Science of the Joachim Herz Foundation . Funded are conference visits, research stays or professional trianing needed in order to gain new insights into relevant research methods. … Continued
VIP2 is a postdoctoral fellowship program at the Vienna BioCenter (VBC) offering 3 year fellowships that are open to candidates with backgrounds in biology, chemistry, physics, medicine, engineering, computer science, and bioinformatics.
The call opend on 1 March and will close on 15 Junee 2022. For further details see below and this webpage. … Continued
The Peter und Traudl Engelhorn Stiftung is annually awarding 2-year Postdoc Scholarships to outstanding junior scientists in life sciences (e.g. Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Genetics, Proteomics, System Biology, BioMedTech, Biotechnology, BioInformatics, Biophysics). … Continued
The Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists is an annual prize awarded to early-career scientists in the fields of Cell and Molecular Biology, Ecology and Environment, Molecular Medicine, Genomics, Proteomics and Systems Biology approaches. If selected as a winner, … Continued
EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships support excellent postdoctoral researchers throughout Europe and the world for a period of up to two years. International mobility is a key requirement. The fellowship includes a salary or stipend, a relocation allowance and support for fellows with children. Awardees can attend an EMBO Laboratory Leadership course and become part of the global network of EMBO Fellows. … Continued
The new call for the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) is now open until 14 September 2022 (5pm Brussels time) and you can apply for 2-year postdoctoral fellowships. The purpose of these awards is to enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, … Continued
Evotec in Göttingen is looking for new talents to join their DataScience Department, specifically their teams “Computational Biology” and “Bioinformatics”.
If you are keen on a career in this sector and on joining a fast growing company in Göttingen, where numerous of our alumni are already working, … Continued
Are you planning to join a trainee program to kick-start your career in industry? Then check out the collection on our GAUSS Career Service Webpage: Trainee Programs
As there are many in different sectors (e.g. Pharma, Chemical Industry, Consulting, Precision Engineering), we collated nearly 50 and listed them on this webpage categorised by industry and all with a short profile. … Continued
Attracting research funding is one of the key measures on the road to academic independence and success. There are plenty of options as a postdoc to apply for national and international research grants and scholarships depending on your career level and also the length of the project or research plan.
To support you in navigating through the different funding schemes we provide on our webpage a list of funding opportunities to give you a general overview of what is available. … Continued
The fellowships of the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg offer outstanding scientists the opportunity to focus on research without the distractions of everyday academic life, to exchange ideas with colleagues from other disciplines, and to benefit from a diverse and vibrant fellowship community.
Through its fellowship program, the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg promotes scholarship and research in the natural sciences, … Continued
We’re happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Impulse Sessions in 2022, this time with consultant Dr. Franziska Kretzschmar from d–fine.
We are happy to announce our first in-person GAUSS Career Service workshop this year: “Conflict Management” by Dr. Neela Enke.
We’re happy to announce our first ever hybrid GAUSS Career Impulse Session with Dr. Cindy Wechsler (Pfizer Manufacturing Deutschland GmbH).
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshops: “Career Planning- What are my further career movements” 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 career outside of university and academia? … Continued
In case you are looking for an IT course or would like to further educate yourself and do some advanced courses in e.g. programming, check out the GWDG Academy website, which offers a diverse programme of courses in data management (e.g. MySQL, GRO Data), software applications (e.g. Photoshop, Illustrator, Affinity Publisher), data analysis (e.g. … Continued
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! … Continued
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. … Continued
Are you interested in an international career in science? Or do you need more information for your individual career planning in research? Then sign up for the info event offered by Research in Europe: National and EU Research Funding Information Event (online) for Junior Researchers on 4 May 2022 at 9am to 5:15pm. … Continued
The Rudolf Kaiser Foundation annually awards the Rudolf Kaiser Prize to a young scientist in experimental physics. The prerequisite for an award is that the candidate has already made outstanding scientific achievements, but does not yet hold a professorship. The prize is intended to improve the start-up opportunities for young scientists who are about to establish themselves in academia. … Continued
The Frankfurt-based Aventis Foundation will grant up to three annual research awards for young and talented postdoctoral researchers in life sciences or group leaders (minimum of 3 years postdoc experience). Each award will be endowed with a subsidy amount of € 100,000 to help creative postdocs pursue their innovative research projects and jump-start their careers in life sciences. … Continued
The goal of the EMBO New Venture Fellowship is to support early career scientists, in any field of life science research, who would use this opportunity to enter a new field of research. The intention of these fellowships is to support high quality candidates to explore feasible projects or generate preliminary data to help transform their research trajectory. … Continued
Within the framework of “Research on Science”, the Volkswagen Foundation supports workshops and summer schools that aim to deepen, link and experiment with the various methodological approaches or theoretical challenges of science research. The aim is to introduce younger scientists from different disciplines to research on science, or the events are intended to serve their (further) qualification. … Continued
The Einstein Forum and the Wittenstein Foundation are offering a the Einstein Fellowship for outstanding young thinkers who wish to pursue a project in a different field from that of their previous research. The purpose of the fellowship is to support those who, in addition to producing superb work in their area of specialization, … Continued
This award supports research in the field of applied research and implemented basic research that has made a significant contribution to the interdisciplinary practice-based therapy of acute and chronic pain. The award is preferably aimed at young scientists from the fields of medicine, psychology and natural sciences.
Applications may be submitted for projects in one of the following two categories:
Are you a postdoc, PhD student or junior professor and would like to receive further training in related disciplines? Then apply for the Add-on Fellowships for Interdisciplinary Life Science of the Joachim Herz Foundation . Funded are conference visits, research stays or professional trianing needed in order to gain new insights into relevant research methods. … Continued
VIP2 is a postdoctoral fellowship program at the Vienna BioCenter (VBC) offering 3 year fellowships that are open to candidates with backgrounds in biology, chemistry, physics, medicine, engineering, computer science, and bioinformatics.
The call opend on 1 March and will close on 15 Junee 2022. For further details see below and this webpage. … Continued
The University of Leipzig has advertised a postdoc position in Neuroscience at their Medical Faculty (Carl-Ludwig-Institute for Psychology). The TV-L E13 (100%) position is available from 1 June 2022 onwards and initially until 31 May 2024 (option for extension). If you are interested check out the job advert here (Stellenanzeige_Wiss_MA_Physiologie_Leipzig) and apply by 27 April 2022. … Continued
Currently there are a few open positions in science management at various places. Check out the opportunites below with links to the job adverts!
Sorted by application deadline.
Head of the Office in Brüssel of the Helmholtz Association (m/f/d)
Over the last three weeks we hoped that this terrible war would be over by now, and we could have a more hopeful post in this newsletter. We are deeply saddened that this is not the case and the war still rages and millions of people need to flee their home. We have PhD students and postdocs as well as staff and alumni, … Continued
The GAUSS Career Service is offering individual counseling and advice sessions where different topics, including CV and application checks, can be covered – no matter if you are pursuing a career inside or outside of academia.
Our goal is to facilitate your career planning and assist you in handling challenges in your current work environment. … Continued
We’re happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Impulse Sessions in 2022, this time with scientist / development engineer Dr. Lukas Schulte from ZEISS Industrial Quality Solutions.
We are happy to announce another 5-day online training on Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP). The training will be offered by the GMP Academy in German and fees will apply:
Fees: The registration fee depends on your current status and you will receive a 30€ discount when registering via the GAUSS Career Service! … Continued
We’re happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Impulse Sessions in 2022, this time with consultant Dr. Franziska Kretzschmar from d–fine.
We are happy to announce our first in-person GAUSS Career Service workshop this year: “Conflict Management” by Dr. Neela Enke.
How much of an entrepreneur is in you? Find out in our intensive two-day online workshop tailored to PhD’s and postdocs of all disciplines! Learn how to turn your PhD into a startup idea, meet real-life innovators & train your pitch story in front of the camera. Discover your hidden potential together with other high-calibre researchers, … Continued
eResearch Alliance is offering a talk series (in German) on legal aspects in Research Data Management. There are several topics in March, which might be of interest for you.
Date: 21.03.2022 until 25.03.2022
Time: 12.30h (Tuesday: 12.30h and 13.30h)
Place: BigBlueButton
https://meet.gwdg.de/b/len-mpb-3qk-eyh
The lectures will be held in German
Check out the details below or on their webpage. … Continued
Since the end of February 2022, the attack of the Russian army on Ukraine has triggered a large number of refugees. Many Ukrainian scientists have already left or will leave their home country. The Volkswagen Foundation wants to support them in temporarily continuing their scientific work in Germany. The funding offer is aimed at Ukrainian scientists who have already fled to Germany after the Russian invasion of their country or who will arrive in Germany in the coming weeks. … Continued
The University of Bremen has again opend a call for 3-year independent projects for postdoc – this time only for female scientists. You can apply when you are from Germany or abroad. Regarding the stage of your career you can either apply shortly after your PhD (the certificate needs to be issued max 10 months after the application deadline and not be issued longer than two years before the deadline) or as an advanced postdoc aiming towards a professorship (2-4 years after your PhD). … Continued
If you are an early career scientists interested in the emerging and rapidly growing field of Engineered Living Materials (ELM) take this opportunity offered by the DFG. You will be interdisciplinary trained and prepared for the submission of your own project proposal. The participants will have the opportunity to further develop their own innovative ideas and apply for one-year funding to kick-off their career in ELM. … Continued
The call for the Dorothea Schlözer Postdoc Program with 3 postdoc positions for female researchers (TV-L 13, 100%, term of 2 years) is now open for applications and will close on 15 April 2022. This call there is no position for the natural and life sciences available but one of the postdoc positions is offered at the University Medical Center (UMG). … Continued
The Frankfurt-based Aventis Foundation will grant up to three annual research awards for young and talented postdoctoral researchers in life sciences or group leaders (minimum of 3 years postdoc experience). Each award will be endowed with a subsidy amount of € 100,000 to help creative postdocs pursue their innovative research projects and jump-start their careers in life sciences. … Continued
Within the framework of “Research on Science”, the Volkswagen Foundation supports workshops and summer schools that aim to deepen, link and experiment with the various methodological approaches or theoretical challenges of science research. The aim is to introduce younger scientists from different disciplines to research on science, or the events are intended to serve their (further) qualification. … Continued
The Einstein Forum and the Wittenstein Foundation are offering a the Einstein Fellowship for outstanding young thinkers who wish to pursue a project in a different field from that of their previous research. The purpose of the fellowship is to support those who, in addition to producing superb work in their area of specialization, … Continued
Interdisciplinary research calls for communication and the right networks. The Joachim Herz Foundation is funding networking events for young scientists in natural sciences with the scheme “Begegnungszonen“. The goal is to forge new contacts, to build interdisciplinary networks and simultaneously getting to know new ways of working and methods. … Continued
This year, the Ernst Haage Foundation of the two Max Planck Institutes in Mülheim is once again offering the Ernst Haage Prize for Chemistry: Nominations are open to scientists with a doctorate who are currently working at a German research institution/university. Nominees should have their primary residence in Germany, … Continued
VIP2 is a postdoctoral fellowship program at the Vienna BioCenter (VBC) offering 3 year fellowships that are open to candidates with backgrounds in biology, chemistry, physics, medicine, engineering, computer science, and bioinformatics.
The call opend on 1 March and will close on 15 Junee 2022. For further details see below and this webpage. … Continued
Dr. Jin Bao, a GGNB alumna, has positions available in her lab at the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced technology, an Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (China).
See below for further details as well as the attached PDF. … Continued
abberior is looking for excellent candidates to join their application team in their headquarter in Göttingen. See details below. … Continued
Currently there are plenty of open positions in science management at various places. Check out the opportunites below with links to the job adverts!
Sorted by application deadline.
Science manager for equality-oriented career promotion
Our local companies Sartorius and Evotec are hiring. Check out their career webpages below to see the different opportunities.
Sartorius career opportunites include at the moment open positions – amongst others as product or project managers.
On their career webpage Evotec is currently advertising more than 30 positions of which many are suitable for graduates with a PhD, … Continued
First of all, we would like to thank all 167 of you who completed the survey! The insights we gained and your very constructive and helpful comments are really valuable for us! In the following you will find only a brief overview of the major results. If you would like to have a more detailed look, … Continued
The GAUSS Career Service is offering individual counseling and advice sessions where different topics, including CV and application checks, can be covered – no matter if you are pursuing a career inside or outside of academia.
Our goal is to facilitate your career planning and assist you in handling challenges in your current work environment. … Continued
We’re happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Impulse Session in 2022, this time with scientist / development engineer Dr. Erik Schliep from Evotec International GmbH.
Are you interested in a career in clinical research and always wondered what job profiles are available in this area? Then this information session is for you!
Our guest speaker, Dr. Florian Walker (teamlead clinical project management) from the UMG Study Center, will introduce you not only to the work of a Clinical Research Associate (CRA) but also to further job opportunities in the area of Clinical trials. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service online workshop “Writing a Research Grant Application” by Dr. John Dixon.
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 already be in the process of applying for a grant or planning to start writing within the next 3 months. … Continued
We’re happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Impulse Sessions in 2022, this time with scientist / development engineer Dr. Lukas Schulte from ZEISS Industrial Quality Solutions.
We are happy to announce another 5-day online training on Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP). The training will be offered by the GMP Academy in German as well as in English and there for fees will apply:
Fees: The registration fee depends on your current status and you will receive a 30€ discount when registering via the GAUSS Career Service! … Continued
We are happy to announce a new GAUSS Career Service workshop “Enter the job interview prepared – leave it with a contract in your hand” by Dr. Barbara Hoffbauer.
This workshop is intended for postdoctoral researchers and late-stage PhD students who have already been informed about career options outside Academia and have started planning their careers. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next project management workshop “Fast Forward – The Ultimate Productivity System for Researchers” with Dr. Nadine Sinclair.
Achieve amazing productivity and reduce your stress level in 7 weeks by implementing the productivity secrets that allow management consultants and high-performing industry teams to generate results quickly. … Continued
The Pharmaakademie offers again this spring its 5-day GxP Intensive Training on four different dates.
Many companies are committed to recruiting natural scientists, but the university degree alone is often not enough. For a successful career start, many companies expect, among other things, additional GxP knowledge, which is conveyed in an easily understandable and interesting way in the intensive training. … Continued
After pausing for quite a while we are happy to confirm that the science management mentoring program “WeWiMento – Wege ins Wissenschaftsmanagement“ for PhD students and postdocs will be resumed in 2022!
WeWiMento is aiming at doctoral students and early postdocs from all disciplines at the Göttingen Campus who are interested in a career in science management. … Continued
The Göttingen State and University Library offers several courses per months, which might be of interest for you. As an example in February you can participate in “Basics for Beginners: Introduction to Research”, “Introduction to Zotero”, or “Introduction to Citavi”.
For further information and registration please visit their website at www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/-M9Q8z. … Continued
In case you are looking for an IT course or would like to further educate yourself and do some advanced courses in e.g. programming, check out the GWDG Academy website, which offers a diverse programme of courses in data management (e.g. MySQL, GRO Data), software applications (e.g. Photoshop, Illustrator, Affinity Publisher), data analysis (e.g. … Continued
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! … Continued
Jumpstart your Business Career in Life Sciences!
Are you considering a career outside of academia, wish to gain a better understanding of BioBusiness, broaden your network or even start your own company? Join BioBusiness Summer School and find out what the fascinating world of BioBusiness has to offer.
BioBusiness Summer School from 27 June – … Continued
If you are an early career scientists interested in the emerging and rapidly growing field of Engineered Living Materials (ELM) take this opportunity offered by the DFG. You will be interdisciplinary trained and prepared for the submission of your own project proposal. The participants will have the opportunity to further develop their own innovative ideas and apply for one-year funding to kick-off their career in ELM. … Continued
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. … Continued
Run jointly by the British Academy, the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal Society, the Newton International Fellowships are for non-UK scientists who are at an early stage of their research career and wish to conduct research in the UK. … Continued
ERC Consolidator Grants (up to 5 years and € 2 million) are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or program.
Researchers of any nationality with 7-12 years of experience since completion of PhD (Extensions are possible under certain circumstances — see the latest ERC Work Programme), … Continued
The University of Bremen has again opend a call for 3-year independent projects for postdoc – this time only for female scientists. You can apply when you are from Germany or abroad. Regarding the stage of your career you can either apply shortly after your PhD (the certificate needs to be issued max 10 months after the application deadline and not be issued longer than two years before the deadline) or as an advanced postdoc aiming towards a professorship (2-4 years after your PhD). … Continued
Interdisciplinary research calls for communication and the right networks. The Joachim Herz Foundation is funding networking events for young scientists in natural sciences with the scheme “Begegnungszonen“. The goal is to forge new contacts, to build interdisciplinary networks and simultaneously getting to know new ways of working and methods. … Continued
The call for the Dorothea Schlözer Postdoc Program with 3 postdoc positions for female researchers (TV-L 13, 100%, term of 2 years) is now open for applications and will close on 15 April 2022. This call there is no position for the natural and life sciences available but one of the postdoc positions is offered at the University Medical Center (UMG). … Continued
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. … Continued
The Font der Chemischen Industrie (Chemical Industry Fund) is offering the Liebig Fellowship to promote the start of a university teaching career in the field of chemistry. The aim of the fellowship is to enable postdoctoral chemists – as well as young scientists from related fields – to continue their scientific qualification at the university. … Continued
Are you a doctoral student or junior researcher from abroad and would like to realise a research project within the context of a doctoral programme or continue your education in Germany? Then apply for a DAAD Research Grant by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Available are One-Year (7-12 months, … Continued
Do you want to work for a start-up based in Berlin / Göttingen? Then check out this job advert by Cinference who are looking for a Senior Scientist, who will set up their biological team, laboratory and experimental pipeline to validate their de novo proteins in their lab space in Göttingen. For full details of the job advert, … Continued
The Walter Benjamin Program enables researchers in the postdoctoral training phase to independently conduct their own research project at a location of their choice for 2 years. The project can be carried out at a research institution in Germany or abroad, with the host institution providing support for the project. … Continued
The Fritz Thyssen Foundation supports different funding schemes potentially relevant for you. Check out the different opportunities:
Applications for the different schemes can be submitted at any time. … Continued
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has two postdoc research funding opportunites, which might be of particular interest for you.
The Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship supports postdoctoral researchers who want to join a lab outside of Germany to do their own research project with a duration of 6-24 months. … Continued
Our local companies Sartorius and Evotec are hiring. Check out their career webpages below to see the different opportunities.
Sartorius career opportunites include at the moment open positions – amongst others as product or project managers.
On their career webpage Evotec is currently advertising more than 30 positions of which many are suitable for graduates with a PhD, … Continued
Currently there are plenty of open positions in science management at various places. Check out the opportunites below with links to the job adverts!
Sorted by application deadline (note that on the bottom are two positions without any application deadlines).
EU project manager at department of third party funding management (Forschungsförderung)
We’re happy to announce our first GAUSS Career Impulse Sessions in 2022, this time with senior editor Dr. Christian Schnell from Nature Communications.
We’re happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Impulse Session in 2022, this time with product manager Dr. Erik Schliep from Evotec International GmbH.
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 scientist 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. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service online workshop “Writing a Research Grant Application” by Dr. John Dixon.
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 already be in the process of applying for a grant or planning to start writing within the next 3 months. … Continued
We are happy to announce another 5-day online training on Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP). The training will be offered by the GMP Academy in German as well as in English and there for fees will apply:
Fees: The registration fee depends on your current status and you will receive a 30€ discount when registering via the GAUSS Career Service! … Continued
After the successful online debut of the career fair, which brought together over 3000 participants with more than 50 exhibitors, the fair will again take place in a digital format at the virtual atrium and the World and Europe Hall of the Federal Foreign Office on 27-28 January 2022 – free of charge! … Continued
The LIFT-OFF competition for the promotion of start-ups enters its next round. The competition is aimed both at people interested in founding their own business and at active founders from all fields. The competition is accompanied by various events and workshops and a mentoring program in the field of entrepreneurship.
Realizing your business idea: You will have the opportunity to start your own real business and experience a start-up’s challenges. … Continued
From 23-29 July 2022 the 12th edition of the Merck Innovation Cup will take place near Frankfurt, Germany (in case the pandemic situation would not allow in-person meetings, the event would take place online).Join the students and young professionals from all over the world to meet at the Merck KGaA company headquarters to learn from professionals, … Continued
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! … Continued
The EU Office of the University of Göttingen will organise an online workshop on “The Funding and Tenders Opportunities Portal – Your Tool to EU Funding“. It will take place on Wednesday, 19 January 2022 starting at 10am and it will be finished at approximately 11:30am. Please register latest by 17 Jan 2022. … Continued
ERC Consolidator Grants (up to 5 years and € 2 million) are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or program.
Researchers of any nationality with 7-12 years of experience since completion of PhD (Extensions are possible under certain circumstances — see the latest ERC Work Programme), … Continued
The University of Bremen has again opend a call for 3-year independent projects for postdoc – this time only for female scientists. You can apply when you are from Germany or abroad. Regarding the stage of your career you can either apply shortly after your PhD (the certificate needs to be issued max 10 months after the application deadline and not be issued longer than two years before the deadline) or as an advanced postdoc aiming towards a professorship (2-4 years after your PhD). … Continued
For the second time, the Hans and Ilse Breuer Foundation is offering a special prize to young researchers (doctoral or post-doctoral) for outstanding publications in the research field of dementia. In the renewed call for entries, the prize for the best publication is endowed with €5,000 for the private use of the prize winner. … Continued
The next call for the Mildred-Scheel-Postdoc Program by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until 15 February 2022.This postdoctoral funding scheme is providing young doctors and natural scientists the opportunity to carry out projects in clinically oriented oncological basic research or clinical cancer research at renowned institutions abroad. … Continued
The DFG has been awarding the Bernd Rendel Prize annually since 2002 to early career geoscientists with a university degree but as yet no doctorate. The prizes are funded by the proceeds from the Bernd Rendel Foundation, which is administered by Stifterverband, and is intended to be used for scientific purposes, … Continued
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. … Continued
The RTG 2300 Enrichment of European beech forests with conifers: impacts of functional traits on ecosystem functioning (EnriCo) has an open position for a postdoctoral researcher to work in their team. It is a 100% position funded from April 2022 through to September 2026 (4.5 years).
Check out the detailed job advert and also the Webpage of the RTG 2300 EnriCo
Application deadline is the 23 January 2022 … Continued
CSL Behring has an open position at their site in Marburg. It is full time and limited for 2 years.
For details on the job advert, see this link: Scientist – Bioanalytics (m/f/x) … Continued
Adference is a company based in Lüneburg and they are still hiring at the moment. As suggested by our internal contact in November 2021, they are now expanding their Data Science Department.
See below for a suitable position for a PhD graduate – don’t worry about the two years of expected experience – … Continued
Currently there is an open position in science management at the Technical Univerity of Kaiserslautern:
Referent (m/w/d) für Early Career Researchers
Application deadline is the 16 January 2022 … Continued
From 17 to 20 January 2022 the Opening Week of the Life Science Factory takes place and you are invited to to the newly built premises for the first time. Four individual event formats within the Opening Week combine the opportunities to get to know the concept, to experience role models in the life science entrepreneurship context and to gain valuable contacts in personal exchange. … Continued
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), … Continued
ERC Consolidator Grants (up to 5 years and € 2 million) are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or program.
Researchers of any nationality with 7-12 years of experience since completion of PhD (Extensions are possible under certain circumstances — see the latest ERC Work Programme), … Continued
For the second time, the Hans and Ilse Breuer Foundation is offering a special prize to young researchers (doctoral or post-doctoral) for outstanding publications in the research field of dementia. In the renewed call for entries, the prize for the best publication is endowed with €5,000 for the private use of the prize winner. … Continued
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 in their field of research. … Continued
The Ursula M. Händel Prize recognises scientists who have made exemplary and sustained efforts to improve the welfare of animals in research. This includes in particular the development of methods that contribute to the reduction, refinement and replacement of animal experiments.
Every two years, the DFG recognises one or more researchers whose work focuses on improving the welfare of animals. … Continued
The next call for the Mildred-Scheel-Postdoc Program by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until 15 February 2022.This postdoctoral funding scheme is providing young doctors and natural scientists the opportunity to carry out projects in clinically oriented oncological basic research or clinical cancer research at renowned institutions abroad. … Continued
The DFG has an open call on one of their priority programs “Spatial Genome Architecture in Development and Disease” with application to be submitted by 15 February 2022. … Continued
The DFG has been awarding the Bernd Rendel Prize annually since 2002 to early career geoscientists with a university degree but as yet no doctorate. The prizes are funded by the proceeds from the Bernd Rendel Foundation, which is administered by Stifterverband, and is intended to be used for scientific purposes, … Continued
Every year, Körber-Stiftung presents the German Thesis Award to the best of young German researchers. In total the prizes are worth more than €100,000 for significant and innovative research, including three top prizes of €25,000 each. This makes the German Thesis Award one of the most highly endowed prizes awarded to young scientists in the country. … Continued
From 17 to 20 January 2022 the Opening Week of the Life Science Factory takes place and you are invited to to the newly built premises for the first time. Four individual event formats within the Opening Week combine the opportunities to get to know the concept, to experience role models in the life science entrepreneurship context and to gain valuable contacts in personal exchange. … Continued
In November be posted many job opportunites as well as some trainee programs. If you are looking for jobs, maybe check out the last newsletter in our Archive here to not miss great opportunities. … Continued
To strengthen their Junior Scientist and International Researcher Center (JUNO) Team at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf they are looking for scientific coordinator (75%, EG 13 TV-L, 2 years).
For further details check out the job advert here: HHU Science Management Post … Continued
The State Office for Mining, Energy and Geology (LBEG) is the mining authority for Lower Saxony, Bremen, Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg as well as the geological service for Lower Saxony. Their L3 Department “Geological Consulting” is advertising a full-time post as Head of Department L3.1 “Final Disposal Principle” to be filled as soon as possible. … Continued
At the Evotec subsidiary in Göttingen, the Machine Learning team is seeking a highly motivated and dedicated
Research Associate (f/m/d) – Machine Learning (Full-time and permanent)
For further details check out the job advert here. … Continued
The Innovation Network “Neurotechnology in Mental Health” (NEUROTECH) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) is a pioneering transdisciplinary research collaboration with the aim of trailblazing novel instrument-based and algorithmic tools for disorders of cognition, perception and mood. The network will focus on advanced analysis and targeted modulation of human electrophysiological activity recorded both intracranially and non-invasively via electroencephalography. … Continued
We are happy to announce our first GAUSS Career Workshop in 2022: “Leading Teams in Academia. Multiple Perspectives for Greater Awareness” by Dr. Matteo Garavoglia. This workshop is intended for those postdocs and late stage-PhD students pursuing an academic career.
What is leadership? Which roles do different individuals play within a team? What dynamics underpin effective team communication? … Continued
We’re happy to announce our first GAUSS Career Impulse Sessions in 2022, this time with senior editor Dr. Christian Schnell from Nature Communications.
We are happy to announce our online workshop “Resilience Training for Researchers” with Dr. Nadine Sinclair and Paul Sinclair.
Working in science and research can be highly rewarding but also extremely challenging. Pressure of competition, limited resources (be it time, be it funding), and conflicting situations almost belong to everyday life. … Continued
After the successful online debut of the career fair, which brought together over 3000 participants with more than 50 exhibitors, the fair will again take place in a digital format at the virtual atrium and the World and Europe Hall of the Federal Foreign Office on 27-28 January 2022 – free of charge! … Continued
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 9-11 February 2022. … Continued
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! … Continued
From 23-29 July 2022 the 12th edition of the Merck Innovation Cup will take place near Frankfurt, Germany (in case the pandemic situation would not allow in-person meetings, the event would take place online).Join the students and young professionals from all over the world to meet at the Merck KGaA company headquarters to learn from professionals, … Continued
Jumpstart your Business Career in Life Sciences!
Are you considering a career outside of academia, wish to gain a better understanding of BioBusiness, broaden your network or even start your own company? Join BioBusiness Summer School and find out what the fascinating world of BioBusiness has to offer.
BioBusiness Summer School from 27 June – … Continued
The GAUSS Career Service is offering individual counseling and advice sessions where different topics, including CV and application checks, can be covered – no matter if you are pursuing a career inside or outside of academia.
Our goal is to facilitate your career planning and assist you in handling challenges in your current work environment. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Workshop “From a Successful Job Application to the Job Interview” by Barbara Hoffbauer. This workshop is intended for those postdocs and late stage-PhD students who are already informed about various professional perspectives outside academia and have reflected their own suitability for different career paths. … Continued
We’re happy to announce yet another GAUSS Career Impulse Sessions, this time with patent attorney Dr. Roland Graf from Zwicker Schnappauf & Partner Patentanwälte München.
Please write a short e-mail to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de if you plan to attend, … Continued
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! … Continued
The first hybrid career fair of the University of Göttingen will take place from 22 to 24 November.
The PRAXISBÖRSE offers you the opportunity to look around for entry-level and career opportunities with attractive employers. … Continued
The equal opportunity department of the Economic Sciences at the University is organising an event “Women in Consulting – The Truths about Male Domains, Clichés and Horror Stories ” on 25 November at 18:15-20:00 h at the ZHG 007. Three alumni of the University of Göttingen (two with a PhD) are providing insights and will answer all you questions in a Q&A session. … Continued
Both new calls for the Dorothea Schlözer Mentoring Program and the Dorothea Schlözer Career Coaching Program are now open and you can apply by 30 Nov 2021. Please check out the information below for further details.
The University of Göttingen is offering a Career Coaching and a Mentoring Programme for female postdocs and in case of the mentoring also for female doctoral candidates (in their final year) at Göttingen Campus, … Continued
The Equal Opportunity Office of the UMG offers courses for women, and occasionally for all genders. The course fees per participant have to be paid for by the respective department, usually from gender equality funds granted by DFG projects.
If you are interested in a course, check with your supervisor if funds are available, … Continued
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 9-11 February 2022. … Continued
“Forschungsgeist! Next Generation Sequencing in ecosystem research” is a funding scheme offered by the Bauer Foundation for the promotion of science and research. Projects are funded with up to 150,000 € for a period of three years. The foundation programme is aimed at postdocs with up to six years of postdoctoral research experience who want to establish their own working group. … Continued
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 €). … Continued
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), … Continued
ERC Consolidator Grants (up to 5 years and € 2 million) are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or program.
Researchers of any nationality with 7-12 years of experience since completion of PhD (Extensions are possible under certain circumstances — see the latest ERC Work Programme), … Continued
CODE – a project-based learning, state-accredited university in Berlin – has opened a position for a Software Engineering Lecturer (permanent employee, full-time, immediate start).
Check out the job advert for this quite exciting position here:
https://code.jobs.personio.de/job/460596 … Continued
Adference is a company based in Lüneburg and they are hiring at the moment. See below for a suitable position for a PhD graduate. We have also internal information that they will expand their Data Science Department early next year – so keep your eyes open and if you are interested, check their career webpage in a few weeks. … Continued
For our last Career Impulse Session we welcomed an alumnus working at CSL Behring in Heidelberg and he kindly shared some inside information with us regarding different recruiting options and contacts (see below). If you are interested in a career with CSL Behring, sign up for their early career talent news by email (https://behring.h-e-s.de/EarlyCareerTalents/). … Continued
Genedata is a worldwide company currently offering a variety of jobs for example in German or Switzerland. Positions are available in clinical research, data science, consulting and many others. Check out their career webpage and explore the different options. … Continued
If you are interested in a career in consulting, check out this job opportunities with Oliver Wyman Core Consulting Group. These positions are at entry level for people with a PhD – so explore this opportunity and apply if this is for you!
Entry Level Consultant … Continued
IQVIA is hiring at the moment in several areas like Clinical Research, Consulting and Data Science. Check out their career webpage here and if you have any questions regarding a post, please contact us and we can make contact to one of our alumni working there. … Continued
Are you curious/enthusiastic about a career in scientific publishing? If so, Cell Press may have the perfect experience for you. The Editorial Office of Cell Press is offering an internship program for qualified graduate students or those who have recently finished a graduate program or are pursuing post-doctoral training. The program is designed to give you the full experience of being a Scientific Editor at a major scientific publishing organization. … Continued
Scitaris is a boutique strategy consultancy with sole focus on pharma and biotech R&D strategy and the speaker of our last Career Impulse Session Dr. Cathie Chan is working there.
The company is currently hiring and have several open position including Consultant (PhD / PostDoc-entry Level): “You have completed a PhD and even have Postdoc experience and are interested in consulting? … Continued
Evotec has an open position for a Research Scientist (f/m/d) – Computational Biology – OMICs data analysis (full time and permanent) at their site in Göttingen.
Join their computational biology team to support Evotec on the data driven R&D Autobahn to cures! They are looking for a scientist, who has a strong background in disease biology/ biomedical science and experience with OMICs data analysis and visualization. … Continued
We are delighted to introduce you to a new feature on our GAUSS Career Service Webpage: a selection of Trainee Programs.
A trainee program is one option to start your career in industry and can be a great opportunity. As there are many in different sectors (e.g. Pharma, … Continued
Alumni of the regional universities (souther Lower Saxony) give you interesting and helpful insights into their current activities and report on personal experiences when starting a career. Find out what other entry-level opportunities the participating regional companies are on offer and what requirements you need. … Continued
The first hybrid career fair of the University of Göttingen will take place from 22 to 24 November.
The PRAXISBÖRSE offers you the opportunity to look around for entry-level and career opportunities with attractive employers. … Continued
Evotec has an open position for a Research Scientist (f/m/d) – Computational Biology – OMICs data analysis (full time and permanent) at their site in Göttingen.
Join their computational biology team to support Evotec on the data driven R&D Autobahn to cures! They are looking for a scientist, who has a strong background in disease biology/ biomedical science and experience with OMICs data analysis and visualization. … Continued
Both new calls for the Dorothea Schlözer Mentoring Program and the Dorothea Schlözer Career Coaching Program are now open and you can apply by 30 Nov 2021. Please check out the information below for further details.
The University of Göttingen is offering a Career Coaching and a Mentoring Programme for female postdocs and in case of the mentoring also for female doctoral candidates (in their final year) at Göttingen Campus, … Continued
We are excited to forward you this postdoc opportunity, which Melissa Sollich shared with us:
Postdoctoral cancer research openings
New NIH-funded positions are available for ambitious and outstanding postdocs to participate in studies of molecular mechanisms and therapy development for cancer. Fellows are expected to be independent, capable of leading their own research projects and be in charge of all aspects of their project from conception, … Continued
If you are considering pursuing an academic career, please make sure that you familiarize yourself with the eligibility criteria of various funding agencies concerning the cut-off dates for applying for fellowships. Especially the highly attractive longer term or junior group funding schemes (e.g. Emmy Noether, Sofja Kovalevskaja, ERC, … Continued
We’re happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Impulse Session with Dr. Partho Halder from CSL Behring GmbH.
Please write a short e-mail to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de if you plan to attend, … Continued
Your next job interview is via Skype, your elevator pitch via Zoom? In this seminar held on 20 October 2021 at 2-4 pm you will learn how to convince supporters, investors or employers of you and your idea in the digital space. In a two-hour, interactive online workshop, you develop your pitch in front of the webcam. … Continued
If you are interested in patenting and commercializing scientific inventions then check out this talk organised by the GGNB. It will be helf by Dr Stefan Uhle from MBM ScienceBridge on Thursday, 4 Nov at 4-5:30 pm at the GZMB building. 3G rules apply!
Please check out the leaflet MBM_GGNB_20211104 to access further information as well as how to sign up for it. … Continued
If you are interested in applying for an ERC Starting or Consolidator Grant in 2022, check out this webinar, which is held on Monday 18 October (in English) organised by the German ERC National Contact Point. The main features and submission requirements of the current 2022 call will be presented, … Continued
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), … Continued
Scitaris is a boutique strategy consultancy with sole focus on pharma and biotech R&D strategy and the speaker of our last Career Impulse Session Dr. Cathie Chan is working there.
The company is currently hiring and have several open position including Consultant (PhD / PostDoc-entry Level): “You have completed a PhD and even have Postdoc experience and are interested in consulting? … Continued
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 €). … Continued
In November we will have the GAUSS Career Service workshop “Exploring the Unknown – The Company World” by Dr. Gaby Schilling in our program.
This workshop is designed for postdoctoral scientist 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. … Continued
Also posted by Melissa Sollich, we would like to draw your attention to the new BMBF call which aims to establish collaborations between data-related and subject-related individuals. The deadline for the porject outlines is the 19 Nov 2021. Further informaiton on the call is available here (only in German). … Continued
How much entrepreneur is in you? Find out and participate in the workshop tailored to science talents of all disciplines! Learn how to turn your PhD into a startup idea together with 19 other highly motivated researchers led by professional Design Thinking coaches. … Continued
Abberior is one of the world’s leading suppliers of high-resolution light microscopes.Currently they have two open positons both as Application scientist for STED and MINFLUX microscopy – one in the USA and one in China.
For more information including the job adverts see below. … Continued
At the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research is a postdoc position available on the topic “ubiquitin-dependent regulation of stem cell fates” in the lab of Achim Werner.
For details of the job advert please see below.
… Continued
ERC Consolidator Grants (up to 5 years and € 2 million) are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or program.
Researchers of any nationality with 7-12 years of experience since completion of PhD (Extensions are possible under certain circumstances — see the latest ERC Work Programme), … Continued
Do you hold a W1 assistant professorship (with or without Tenure Track) or are you an ambitious leader of a junior research group (e.g., Emmy Noether, ERC Starting Grant, or similar)? Are you working in the natural or engineering sciences, medicine or psychology? Are you aiming for obtaining a full professorship or habilitation?
Apply now for the Hector Research Career Development (RCD) Award! … Continued
The Fritz Thyssen Foundation supports different funding schemes potentially relevant for you. Check out the different opportunities:
Applications for the different schemes can be submitted at any time. … Continued
In cooperation with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) the DAAD gives highly qualified postdocs the possibility of a 1-6 month research stay at Japanese universities or research institutions. PhD students can apply for stays for 1-12 months.
The program is open for German postdocs and PhD students (and those with a permanent residence permit for Germany) of all subjects. … Continued
Behind every life-changing solution is an entrepreneurial scientist. A creative mind who proved an idea in the lab and dared to carry it out in the world.
To encourage more scientists to translate their research, BioInnovation Institute (BII) & Science present a new annual award.
The three winners will have their essays published in Science magazine and will be invited into BII’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. … Continued
The Azrieli Fellows Program has issued the Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship Call for Applications for the 2022–23 academic year. The fellowship provides generous funding and support for international postdoc applicants to conduct research in STEM, the humanities and social sciences at eligible Israeli institutions. … Continued
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 15 November 2021.
You are a scientist working at a German university or non-university research institution and want to make your research more flexible? … Continued
Please check out the following job opportunity at the EMBL in Cambridge (UK). This role is with the Europe PMC team at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) in Hinxton, Cambridge, UK.
Job description: https://www.embl.org/jobs/position/EBI01885
Closing date: 15 October 2021 … Continued
We are happy to announce our GAUSS Career Impulse Session with Dr. Kai-Hsin Cathie Chan (Scitaris):
Cathie is an alumna of the Molecular Biology MSc/PhD program. After graduating from the National Taiwan University College of Life Sciences, she earned her Master’s and PhD degree in the lab of Prof. … Continued
Bristol-Myers Squibb is advertizing trainee-ships at their site in Munich. Here you can find the job adverts:
One of our alumni is working there and if you want to make contact, please e-mail the GAUSS Career Service Office (career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de). … Continued
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 15 November 2021.
You are a scientist working at a German university or non-university research institution and want to make your research more flexible? … Continued
One of our postdocs from the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Dr Victoria Cantoral, launched a podcast together with a colleague from KU Leuven / Uppsala University. The first episode of the podcast “Surviving in Academia“ was launched on September 1st, 2021 and you can rewatch it on the website. The monthly podcast series is hosted by two young academics Dr. … Continued
GÖTTINGEN CAMPUS POSTDOC COMMITTEE – call for applications for the Committee
It’s time for our regular recruitment drive for the group that drives this Network! Are you interested in making a difference for the Postdoc Community in Göttingen? Would you like to share your concerns, ideas and experiences with the other postdocs of the Göttingen Campus? … Continued
How much entrepreneur is in you? Find out and participate in the workshop tailored to science talents of all disciplines! Learn how to turn your PhD into a startup idea together with 19 other highly motivated researchers led by professional Design Thinking coaches. … Continued
The WoCaNet Team and the GGNB Team would like to invite all postdocs and PhD students to join the organization team for the next Women’s Careers and Networks symposium (WoCaNet) taking place in spring 2023. … Continued
We’re happy to announce our our next GAUSS Career Impulse Session with Dr. Cindy Wechsler (Pfizer Manufacturing Deutschland GmbH).
Cindy is an alumna of our PhD Program “Biomolecules: Structure – Function – Dynamics”. She performed her doctoral thesis in the Bioanalytics Group of Prof Dr. Kai Tittmannn (Department of Molecular Enzymology) and successfully finished her PhD in 2014. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next project management workshop “Fast Forward – The Ultimate Productivity System for Researchers” with Dr. Nadine Sinclair.
Achieve amazing productivity and reduce your stress level in 7 weeks by implementing the productivity secrets that allow management consultants and high-performing industry teams to generate results quickly. … Continued
We are happy to announce our upcoming GAUSS Career Service workshop “Grant Writing” by Dr. John Dixon.
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 already be in the process of applying for a grant or planning to start writing within the next 3 months. … Continued
Has someone failed if an experiment does not produce the desired result? The Volkswagen Foundation’s clear answer: No! Because without error, there would be no new knowledge. Without error, there would be no progress. But creative failure has no lobby in the international science system. Those who have to meet short-term expectations, acquire third-party funding and produce a steady stream of papers shy away from time-consuming experiments with uncertain outcomes. … Continued
Michelson Philanthropies and Science/AAAS are launching a bold new prize to recognize transformative research in human immunology, with trans-disease applications to accelerate vaccine and immunotherapeutic discovery.
The Michelson Philanthropies & Science Prize for Immunology invites applications from young investigators around the world drawn from diverse fields such as computer science, artificial intelligence/machine learning, … Continued
Each year, the Daimler and Benz Foundation awards twelve scholarships to selected postdoctoral researchers, junior professors or heads of junior research groups. The objective is to reinforce the autonomy and creativity of the next generation of scientists and to pave the way for the dedicated researchers’ professional careers during the productive phase following their doctorates. … Continued
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral mobility. MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships will be open to excellent researchers of any nationality. … Continued
The Azrieli Fellows Program has issued the Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship Call for Applications for the 2022–23 academic year. The fellowship provides generous funding and support for international postdoc applicants to conduct research in STEM, the humanities and social sciences at eligible Israeli institutions. … Continued
Behind every life-changing solution is an entrepreneurial scientist. A creative mind who proved an idea in the lab and dared to carry it out in the world.
To encourage more scientists to translate their research, BioInnovation Institute (BII) & Science present a new annual award.
The three winners will have their essays published in Science magazine and will be invited into BII’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. … Continued
Applications for an ERC Synergy Grant (ERC SyG) must be submitted by a minimum of two to a maximum of four Principal Investigators (PIs) and must include an outstanding intrinsic synergetic effect. PIs have to present an early achievement track-record or a ten-year track-record, whichever is most appropriate.
ERC SyG seek to bring together complementary expertise, … Continued
We are happy to announce our GAUSS Career Impulse Session with Dr. Kai-Hsin Cathie Chan (Scitaris):
Cathie is an alumna of the Molecular Biology MSc/PhD program. After graduating from the National Taiwan University College of Life Sciences, she earned her Master’s and PhD degree in the lab of Prof. … Continued
Dear GAUSS postdocs and PhD students,
After nearly two years in the GAUSS Career Service we are sadly saying goodbye to Dr Britta Korkowsky, who is starting her new and exciting role as coordinator for the Campus Institute for Dynamics of Biological Networks (CIDBN) in September. Britta joined us in Autumn 2019, first as parental leave cover and then stayed on after I returned part-time. … Continued
We are happy to announce our GAUSS Career Impulse Session with Dr. Irena Andreeva (BioNTech):
Irena is an alumna of the Molecular Biology MSc/PhD program. She performed her doctoral thesis in the lab of Prof. Marina Rodnina at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry and finished her PhD in 2016. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next virtual GAUSS Career workshop “Conflict Management” by Dr. Neela Enke.
Workshop Description: The ability to deal with conflicts is a key component of professional conduct and an important factor for personal and professional success. The workshop enables the participants to experience conflict as agent of innovation, professional and personal development. … Continued
We are happy to announce our GAUSS Career Impulse Session with Dr. Jennifer Masch (Zeiss).
Jennifer is an alumna of the GGNB program ‘Molecular Physiology of the Brain’. She developed STED nanoscopy of synaptic substructures in living mice in the ‘NanoBiophotonics’ lab of Prof. Stefan W. Hell at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry and received her doctoral degree in 2017. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next project management workshop “Fast Forward – The Ultimate Productivity System for Researchers” with Dr. Nadine Sinclair.
Achieve amazing productivity and reduce your stress level in 7 weeks by implementing the productivity secrets that allow management consultants and high-performing industry teams to generate results quickly. … Continued
We are happy to announce our upcoming GAUSS Career Service workshop “Grant Writing” by Dr. John Dixon.
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 already be in the process of applying for a grant or planning to start writing within the next 3 months. … Continued
We are happy to announce a 2-day intensive online training on Good Clinical Practice (GCP).
Good Clinical Practice is an international ethical and scientific standard for the planning, conduct, documentation and reporting of clinical trials in humans. Compliance with these standards creates public confidence that the rights, safety and well-being of trial subjects are protected in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and that the data collected during the clinical trial are credible. … Continued
The 18th Horizons in Molecular Biology will take place this year from 13th to 16th of September 2021. Due to the COVID-Pandemic and the related uncertainties regarding travels and gatherings of large crowds the organizers decided to host the event this year online.
Also this year the conference will host a career fair during which Peggy Sotiropoulou from Celyad Oncology, … Continued
Has someone failed if an experiment does not produce the desired result? The Volkswagen Foundation’s clear answer: No! Because without error, there would be no new knowledge. Without error, there would be no progress. But creative failure has no lobby in the international science system. Those who have to meet short-term expectations, acquire third-party funding and produce a steady stream of papers shy away from time-consuming experiments with uncertain outcomes. … Continued
The Nexus Program gives postdocs the opportunity to establish their own interdisciplinary research group over a period of five to six years. The program is looking for outstanding young scientists who want to pursue an academic career and implement exciting ideas at the interfaces between different STEM disciplines. It is precisely these disciplinary interfaces that offer enormous potential for scientific innovation; … Continued
The European Centre for Advanced Studies (ECAS) invites all researchers who have completed their PhD within the last 10 years and have an employment contract with a Scottish or Lower Saxonian higher education institution to apply for this program. It is an excellent opportunity to conduct research in a cross-national exchange at the most recognized higher education institutions in Lower Saxony and Scotland. … Continued
Each year, the Daimler and Benz Foundation awards twelve scholarships to selected postdoctoral researchers, junior professors or heads of junior research groups. The objective is to reinforce the autonomy and creativity of the next generation of scientists and to pave the way for the dedicated researchers’ professional careers during the productive phase following their doctorates. … Continued
Michelson Philanthropies and Science/AAAS are launching a bold new prize to recognize transformative research in human immunology, with trans-disease applications to accelerate vaccine and immunotherapeutic discovery.
The Michelson Philanthropies & Science Prize for Immunology invites applications from young investigators around the world drawn from diverse fields such as computer science, artificial intelligence/machine learning, … Continued
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral mobility. MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships will be open to excellent researchers of any nationality. … Continued
Applications for an ERC Synergy Grant (ERC SyG) must be submitted by a minimum of two to a maximum of four Principal Investigators (PIs) and must include an outstanding intrinsic synergetic effect. PIs have to present an early achievement track-record or a ten-year track-record, whichever is most appropriate.
ERC SyG seek to bring together complementary expertise, … Continued
The MPI for Molecular Genetics in Berlin currently is looking for a new coordinator for their International Max Planck Research School for Biology AND Computation (IMPRS-BAC). … Continued
Bristol-Myers Squibb is advertizing trainee-ships at their site in Munich. … Continued
Pfizer is hiring at their site in Freiburg (please see adverts including link and the hiring manager below): … Continued
Of course, resilience is a very serious topic in academia that became even more important during the pandemic. Nevertheless, it’s summer, life’s a bit easier and and a good laugh is always important. The ErrantScience.Com published an awesome guide on how to be a reslilient researcher. … Continued
We are happy to announce our GAUSS Career Impulse Session with Dr. Irena Andreeva (BioNTech):
Irena is an alumna of the Molecular Biology MSc/PhD program. She performed her doctoral thesis in the lab of Prof. Marina Rodnina at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry and finished her PhD in 2016. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next virtual GAUSS Career workshop “Conflict Management” by Dr. Neela Enke.
Workshop Description: The ability to deal with conflicts is a key component of professional conduct and an important factor for personal and professional success. The workshop enables the participants to experience conflict as agent of innovation, professional and personal development. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next project management workshop “Fast Forward – The Ultimate Productivity System for Researchers” with Dr. Nadine Sinclair.
Achieve amazing productivity and reduce your stress level in 7 weeks by implementing the productivity secrets that allow management consultants and high-performing industry teams to generate results quickly. … Continued
We are happy to announce our upcoming GAUSS Career Service workshop “Grant Writing” by Dr. John Dixon.
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 already be in the process of applying for a grant or planning to start writing within the next 3 months. … Continued
The equal opportunities and diversity unit at the University of Applied Sciences Koblenz cordially invites all female postdocs to apply for their mentoring program M4P. By this program you will have the opportunitiy to prepare for a career as professor at a University of Applied Sciences (Fachhochschule / Hochschule / Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaft). … Continued
We are happy to announce a 2-day intensive online training on Good Clinical Practice (GCP).
Good Clinical Practice is an international ethical and scientific standard for the planning, conduct, documentation and reporting of clinical trials in humans. Compliance with these standards creates public confidence that the rights, safety and well-being of trial subjects are protected in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and that the data collected during the clinical trial are credible. … Continued
The 18th Horizons in Molecular Biology will take place this year from 13th to 16th of September 2021. Due to the COVID-Pandemic and the related uncertainties regarding travels and gatherings of large crowds the organizers decided to host the event this year online.
Also this year the conference will host a career fair during which Peggy Sotiropoulou from Celyad Oncology, … Continued
Scientists, doctoral students and staff members of the University of Göttingen (including University Medical Center Göttingen) can apply for funding within the second Göttingen Enlight call. Enlight is an association of nine European universities that want to cooperate more closely in research and teaching. The aim of the call is to support joint activities of the Enlight partners. … Continued
The life sciences are not only a particularly innovative field of research, but also a particularly complex one that requires explanation. Their findings and applications are of considerable relevance to society. This makes it all the more important that even non-experts can access these topics, find out about them and deal with them. Sartorius is therefore looking for young science explainers who, … Continued
The Nexus Program gives postdocs the opportunity to establish their own interdisciplinary research group over a period of five to six years. The program is looking for outstanding young scientists who want to pursue an academic career and implement exciting ideas at the interfaces between different STEM disciplines. It is precisely these disciplinary interfaces that offer enormous potential for scientific innovation; … Continued
The European Centre for Advanced Studies (ECAS) invites all researchers who have completed their PhD within the last 10 years and have an employment contract with a Scottish or Lower Saxonian higher education institution to apply for this program. It is an excellent opportunity to conduct research in a cross-national exchange at the most recognized higher education institutions in Lower Saxony and Scotland. … Continued
Each year, the Daimler and Benz Foundation awards twelve scholarships to selected postdoctoral researchers, junior professors or heads of junior research groups. The objective is to reinforce the autonomy and creativity of the next generation of scientists and to pave the way for the dedicated researchers’ professional careers during the productive phase following their doctorates. … Continued
The MPI for Biophysical Chemistry currently has an open position for an expert in science communication and public relations: … Continued
Leipzig University currently has an interesting open position. … Continued
The Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences has established a new instrument for the promotion of female, young academics – the so-called development professorships.
The Osnabrück development professorship is especially for women who already have above-average doctorates or are about to complete their doctorates to gain the three years of professional experience outside academia required for a professorship at a university of applied sciences without having to leave academia entirely. … Continued
Pfizer is hiring at their site in Freiburg (please see adverts including link and the hiring manager below): … Continued
The next TEDxUniGoettingen Conference is scheduled for Nov 20, 2021, and the organizers are currently looking for speakers who would like to share their ideas. The theme of this year’s conference will be ‘Install Now!’. With this year’s theme, they want to give you the opportunity to ‘install’ your vision, ideas and concepts into the audience’s minds. … Continued
The academic system is more and more being criticized concerning the precarity of academic careers. Issues such as excessively short contract terms, publication pressure and the need for mobility are no longer secrets. (Or doesn’t that ring any bell?) In addition, there is often a dependence on third-party funding.
As this is not only characteristic for the German system but turns out to be an international phenomenon the OECD recently published their policy paper “Reducing the Precarity of Academic Research Careers” … Continued
The working group at the “Lektorat Deutsch als Fremdsprache” (Lectorate German as a Foreign Language) at the Faculty of Humanities creates learning modules for independent learning and improvement of the German language, the DeutschLernsnacks. They are continuously working on new “snacks” and improve the existing ones. … Continued
You are not sure what will be the next steps in your career? You would like to stay in academia and you would like to improve your strategy? You think about a career outside academia? You would simply like to have your CV checked?
Whatever it is that’s bothering you, GAUSS Career Service is here for you: … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Impulse Session with Dr. Markus Strasser (Merck):
Markus is an alumnus of our Molecular Biology MSc/PhD program. He performed his doctoral thesis in the Zebrafish lab of Prof. Erez Raz at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry and finished his PhD in 2007. … Continued
We are happy to announce our GAUSS Career Impulse Session with Dr. Irena Andreeva (BioNTech):
Irena is an alumna of the Molecular Biology MSc/PhD program. She performed her doctoral thesis in the lab of Prof. Marina Rodnina at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry and finished her PhD in 2016. … Continued
The 10-day event will give prospective applicants and other stakeholders of EU research and innovation the opportunity to get information and ask questions about main funding instruments, processes of Horizon Europe and what is new. The Horizon Europe info days will address 9 themes, each featuring a program of exclusive discussions and hands-on sessions dedicated to a different cluster or part of the new program. … Continued
The 18th Horizons in Molecular Biology will take place this year from 13th to 16th of September 2021. Due to the COVID-Pandemic and the related uncertainties regarding travels and gatherings of large crowds the organizers decided to host the event this year online.
Also this year the conference will host a career fair during which Peggy Sotiropoulou from Celyad Oncology, … Continued
The new project: TRANSCAN-3, ERA-NET: Sustained collaboration of national and regional programmes in cancer research, represents strong elements of continuity with the previous TRANSCAN programs and has the goal of coordinating national and regional funding programs for research in the area of translational cancer research. The specific challenge is to promote a transnational collaborative approach between scientific teams in demanding areas of translational cancer research, … Continued
The Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists is an annual prize awarded to early-career scientists from the fields of Cell and Molecular Biology, Ecology and Environment, Molecular Medicine, Genomics, Proteomics and Systems Biology approaches.
Applicants are to submit a 1000-word essay that is judged by an independent editorial team organized by the journal Science. … Continued
The Peter and Traudl Engelhorn Foundation for the Advancement of Life Sciences invites outstanding young researchers to apply for a postdoc fellowship. The fellowship will be granted for two years. Deadline will be July 15, 2021. … Continued
Scientists, doctoral students and staff members of the University of Göttingen (including University Medical Center Göttingen) can apply for funding within the second Göttingen Enlight call. Enlight is an association of nine European universities that want to cooperate more closely in research and teaching. The aim of the call is to support joint activities of the Enlight partners. … Continued
The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) currently has a call for funding for AI junior research groups. The call is addressed to qualified young researchers from the fields of computer science, mathematics, physics, electrical engineering, information technology, computational linguistics, neuroscience and cognitive science, psychology or related disciplines and AI-related fields working in interdisciplinary research groups. … Continued
The European Centre for Advanced Studies (ECAS) invites all researchers who have completed their PhD within the last 10 years and have an employment contract with a Scottish or Lower Saxonian higher education institution to apply for this program. It is an excellent opportunity to conduct research in a cross-national exchange at the most recognized higher education institutions in Lower Saxony and Scotland. … Continued
In course of their funding line “research and teaching” Fulbright Germany awards travel grants to postdocs, lecturers, and professors. Funding is provided for three- to twelve-month teaching or research stays in all disciplines at academic institutions in the United States.
The scholarship includes funding for transatlantic round-trip travel, an incidental expense allowance of 600 euros, health/accident insurance, … Continued
Costello Medical are excited to be hosting a virtual recruitment event on Wednesday June 16, 2021 at 3pm BST. This event is open to both the UK and US and will give you the opportunity to learn more about Costello Medical and the opportunities available, get a taste of their work and put questions to the current team. … Continued
From August 23 to September 3, 2021 „Change of Perspective“ is going to host the international IVAC Festival, allowing students and teaching staff from Göttingen and our international partner universities to participate in numerous disciplinary and transdisciplinary events and take part in social activities. … Continued
You are not sure what will be the next steps in your career? You would like to stay in academia and you would like to improve your strategy? You think about a career outside academia? You would simply like to have your CV checked?
Whatever it is that’s bothering you, GAUSS Career Service is here for you: … Continued
We are happy to announce our GAUSS Career Service online workshop “A Career in Academia” by Dr. Neela Enke.
Am I suited for a career in academia? And what does it take to become a professor? Are there alternatives? These questions are crucial for scientists throughout their postdoc phase. This workshop gives an overview on how a career in academia can be achieved and which parameters are relevant for strategic career development in the (German) academic system. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Impulse Session with Dr. Markus Strasser (Merck):
Markus is an alumnus of our Molecular Biology MSc/PhD program. He performed his doctoral thesis in the Zebrafish lab of Prof. Erez Raz at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry and finished his PhD in 2007. … Continued
We are happy to announce our July GAUSS Career Service workshop “Job Hunting and Application Skills” by Gaby Schilling.
The workshop deals with how to write a professional application. Participants will learn about the requirements regarding form and content of CVs and the respective differences between academia and industry. They will reflect about how to convey their strengths and motivation in response to a job advertisement, … Continued
Sci-ROI (Science and Research Opportunities in India) is organizing an in-depth webinar for anyone who is looking to transition to Indian industry from an academic position. This webinar will have successful R&D personnel in various Indian companies sharing their experiences on: … Continued
The mentoring program “WeWiMento – Wege ins Wissenschaftsmanagement” and the introductory workshop „Wissenschaftsmanagement – ist das was für mich?” still pause due to the pandemic, because both formates require personal contact and live from inter-communication. Therefore, the Göttingen Graduate Schools have created a new online information service on science management. … Continued
You have a unique idea? You think other people might be interested in your idea? You are not sure if you like to stay in academia, but working for a company does not sound so great to you? Well, you definitely should think about founding your own business. The university’s start-up support can assist you in many ways. … Continued
In February the European Commission announced the official launch of Horizon Europe, the new EU Research and Innovation program that runs from 2021 – 2027.
The „Excellent Science“ pillar bundles the bottom-up funding programm within Horizon Europe, among those the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), the European mobility measures since 1997. MSCA is the European Union’s flagship program to support scientific excellence and cooperation across countries, … Continued
The next call for the Max-Eder Junior Research Group by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until May 20, 2021.
Aiming at highly qualified young oncologists (physicians during or after the specialist training as well as scientists with an explicit clinic-oriented orientation of the project), who are not older than 35 years on application, … Continued
The next call for the Mildred-Scheel-Postdoc Program by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until May 20, 2021.This postdoctoral funding scheme is providing young doctors and natural scientists the opportunity to carry out projects in clinically oriented oncological basic research or clinical cancer research at renowned institutions abroad. … Continued
In 2015, the Joachim Herz Foundation launched a fellowship program to foster interdisciplinary skills and support the careers of young scientists from various disciplines. The fellowship addresses scientists who already have a position at or current basic funding from a German research institution and aim to answer biological research questions. The Add-on Fellowships for Interdisciplinary Life Science do not cover living expenses. … Continued
The Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology is an international research prize of US$25,000. Since 2002 it has been awarded annually to one young scientist who is not older than 35 years for the most outstanding neurobiological research based on methods of molecular and cell biology. … Continued
The new project: TRANSCAN-3, ERA-NET: Sustained collaboration of national and regional programmes in cancer research, represents strong elements of continuity with the previous TRANSCAN programs and has the goal of coordinating national and regional funding programs for research in the area of translational cancer research. The specific challenge is to promote a transnational collaborative approach between scientific teams in demanding areas of translational cancer research, … Continued
The Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists is an annual prize awarded to early-career scientists from the fields of Cell and Molecular Biology, Ecology and Environment, Molecular Medicine, Genomics, Proteomics and Systems Biology approaches.
Applicants are to submit a 1000-word essay that is judged by an independent editorial team organized by the journal Science. … Continued
The Peter and Traudl Engelhorn Foundation for the Advancement of Life Sciences invites outstanding young researchers to apply for a postdoc fellowship. The fellowship will be granted for two years. Deadline will be July 15, 2021. … Continued
Scientists, doctoral students and staff members of the University of Göttingen (including University Medical Center Göttingen) can apply for funding within the second Göttingen Enlight call. Enlight is an association of nine European universities that want to cooperate more closely in research and teaching. The aim of the call is to support joint activities of the Enlight partners. … Continued
The European Centre for Advanced Studies (ECAS) invites all researchers who have completed their PhD within the last 10 years and have an employment contract with a Scottish or Lower Saxonian higher education institution to apply for this program. It is an excellent opportunity to conduct research in a cross-national exchange at the most recognized higher education institutions in Lower Saxony and Scotland. … Continued
With funds from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the DAAD PRIME program funds temporary positions at German universities to support the international mobility of postdoctoral researchers.
Postdoctoral researchers who see their long-term career perspectives in Germany receive funding for a research stay abroad based on a temporary position at a German university. … Continued
Currently there are open position in science management in Bonn and Frankfurt am Main: … Continued
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). … Continued
Pint of Science is arriving in Göttingen today! In the second edition of the festival, we will count with researchers of different fields that will discuss topics such as feminism, agriculture and climate change, and the cosmos.
Get your laptop and a drink, make yourself comfy and join us from the May 17-19 (6:30 – … Continued
This hands-on workshop can provide significant insights in terms of supervisory work to postdocs who want to improve their leadership skills.
Through self-assessment instruments, group discussions, and a series of interactive exercises and activities, you and your colleagues will develop a repertoire of techniques for addressing issues that commonly arise when supervising students and/or technicians. … Continued
We are happy to announce our GAUSS Career Service workshop “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 career outside of university and academia? … Continued
We are happy to announce our GAUSS Career Service online workshop “A Career in Academia” by Dr. Neela Enke.
Am I suited for a career in academia? And what does it take to become a professor? Are there alternatives? These questions are crucial for scientists throughout their postdoc phase. This workshop gives an overview on how a career in academia can be achieved and which parameters are relevant for strategic career development in the (German) academic system. … Continued
The Austrian Biophysical Society cordially invites you to attend the EBSA meeting to be held in Vienna’s beautiful city in summer 2021!
Austria has a long-standing tradition in biophysics: in 2021, the Austrian Biophysical Society will celebrate its 60th birthday. Founded in 1961, Biophysics Austria is among the oldest biophysical societies in Europe and hosted the first European meeting in Biophysics in Baden by Vienna in 1971. … Continued
The GWDG regularly offers some courses for the usage of its Scientific Compute Cluster as part of their course program. The next courses will take place in the second half of April. More detailed information can be found in the information sheet. … Continued
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! … Continued
You have been working on your research for a while, but haven’t figured out how to translate it into a concrete business idea? Or maybe you have many ideas and cannot decide which one to follow? On the basis of the Design Thinking methodology you will try out different ideation techniques in our interactive webinar. You will learn what makes a good idea and how to formulate it for testing. … Continued
This online-tutorial introduces the usage of GRO.data alongside the basic concepts of research data management (data, metadata, data collection, data citation, persistent identifiers etc.). It shows how to log in, create a dataset, metadata, how to collaborate with peers. The short format is a mixture of presentation and a hands-on session.
Participants will get to know and use the research data repository GRO.data. … Continued
As of now the registration for this year’s WoCaNet Symposium is open. This year’s theme will be “Transformation: Blaze your own Trail“. The WoCaNet symposium aims to bring students, researchers, and established scientific professionals together for a stimulating two-day event. In an open and inspiring environment, ideas and experiences on building careers and achieving a successful work-life balance can be shared. … Continued
The mentoring program “WeWiMento – Wege ins Wissenschaftsmanagement” and the introductory workshop „Wissenschaftsmanagement – ist das was für mich?” still pause due to the pandemic because both formates require personal contact. Therefore, the Göttingen Graduate Schools have created a new online information service on science management. … Continued
The Max Planck Society (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V.) invites outstanding applicants to apply for permanent tenure-track Lise Meitner Research Group Leader positions. The appointments will be made in partnership with relevant Max Planck Institutes according to the applicants’ research topics. With the Lise Meitner Excellence Program, the Max Planck Society expressly aims to attract and promote the careers of outstanding female scientists who are at an early stage of their scientific career and have a documented track record of independent and innovative research. … Continued
In cooperation with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) the DAAD gives highly qualified postdocs the possibility of a 1-6 month research stay at Japanese universities or research institutions.
The program is open for German postdocs (and those with a permanent residence permit for Germany) of all subjects. … Continued
This prize by the German Association for Biomedical Technologies (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Biomedizinische Technik) together with the Foundation “Familie Klee” honors scientific projects in Biomedical Sciences that successfully transferred their genuine ideas to a medical engineering innovation. … Continued
The QuantERA II funding organisations jointly support European multilateral research projects with the potential to initiate or foster new lines of quantum technologies through collaborations involving multidisciplinary explorations in the field of science and/or engineering. The submitted proposals are to be aligned with one of the following topics: … Continued
In February the European Commission announced the official launch of Horizon Europe, the new EU Research and Innovation program that runs from 2021 – 2027.
The „Excellent Science“ pillar bundles the bottom-up funding programm within Horizon Europe, among those the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), the European mobility measures since 1997. MSCA is the European Union’s flagship program to support scientific excellence and cooperation across countries, … Continued
The next call for the Max-Eder Junior Research Group by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until May 20, 2021.
Aiming at highly qualified young oncologists (physicians during or after the specialist training as well as scientists with an explicit clinic-oriented orientation of the project), who are not older than 35 years on application, … Continued
The next call for the Mildred-Scheel-Postdoc Program by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until May 20, 2021.This postdoctoral funding scheme is providing young doctors and natural scientists the opportunity to carry out projects in clinically oriented oncological basic research or clinical cancer research at renowned institutions abroad. … Continued
In 2015, the Joachim Herz Foundation launched a fellowship program to foster interdisciplinary skills and support the careers of young scientists from various disciplines. The fellowship addresses scientists who already have a position at or current basic funding from a German research institution and aim to answer biological research questions. The Add-on Fellowships for Interdisciplinary Life Science do not cover living expenses. … Continued
The Peter and Traudl Engelhorn Foundation for the Advancement of Life Sciences invites outstanding young researchers to apply for a postdoc fellowship. The fellowship will be granted for two years. Deadline will be July 15, 2021. … Continued
The Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists is an annual prize awarded to early-career scientists from the fields of Cell and Molecular Biology, Ecology and Environment, Molecular Medicine, Genomics, Proteomics and Systems Biology approaches.
Applicants are to submit a 1000-word essay that is judged by an independent editorial team organized by the journal Science. … Continued
The German Research Foundation (DFG) recently published 10 principles for effectively enhancing careers. These principles include aspects of e.g. research training, supervisory practice, adequate contract duration, compatability of private life and career. These principles add to the Guidelines for Safeguarding Good Research Practice … Continued
We are happy to announce our upcoming GAUSS Career Service workshop “Grant Writing” by Dr. John Dixon.
This workshop is intended for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers who are new to the process of applying for a scientific research grant. Ideally, participants should already be in the process of applying for a grant or planning to start writing within the next 3 months. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next project management workshop “Fast Forward – The Ultimate Productivity System for Researchers” with Dr. Nadine Sinclair.
Achieve amazing productivity and reduce your stress level in 7 weeks by implementing the productivity secrets that allow management consultants and high-performing industry teams to generate results quickly. … Continued
GGNB organizes a virtual industry excursion to Coherent Laser Systems GmbH.
Founded in 1966, Coherent is one of the world”s leading providers of lasers and laser-based technology for industrial, commercial, medical and scientific customers. With headquarters in the heart of Silicon Valley, California / USA, and offices spanning the globe, Coherent offers a distinct product portfolio for applications in microelectronics, … Continued
This hands-on workshop can provide significant insights in terms of supervisory work to postdocs who want to improve their leadership skills.
Through self-assessment instruments, group discussions, and a series of interactive exercises and activities, you and your colleagues will develop a repertoire of techniques for addressing issues that commonly arise when supervising students and/or technicians. … Continued
As of now the registration for this year’s WoCaNet Symposium is open. This year’s theme will be “Transformation: Blaze your own Trail“. The WoCaNet symposium aims to bring students, researchers, and established scientific professionals together for a stimulating two-day event. In an open and inspiring environment, ideas and experiences on building careers and achieving a successful work-life balance can be shared. … Continued
The eResearch Alliance cordially invites you to their upcoming lecture series on the legal aspects of data management in science and research. Each lecture will start at 12:30h. Right before the start the respective link (BigBlueButton) will be published on their web site (www.eresearch.uni-goettingen.de/news-and-events/all/) You will have the possibility to ask questions via chat. … Continued
How much entrepreneur is in you? Find out and participate in our workshop tailored to science talents of all disciplines! Learn how to turn your PhD into a startup idea together with 19 other highly motivated researchers led by professional Design Thinking coaches. … Continued
This online-tutorial introduces the usage of GRO.data alongside the basic concepts of research data management (data, metadata, data collection, data citation, persistent identifiers etc.). It shows how to log in, create a dataset, metadata, how to collaborate with peers. The short format is a mixture of presentation and a hands-on session.
Participants will get to know and use the research data repository GRO.data. … Continued
The certificate program of the Section for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education consists of three modules that result in 140 work units (AE). A new program cycle starts at the beginning of each semester. The program primarily addresses junior scientists with a teaching position at the University of Göttingen; more experienced lecturers are welcome as well. … Continued
The Department of Science and Technology at the French ambassy in Berlin supports German-French cooperations in research and innovation. Doctoral students and postdocs currently working at a German university or research institution are welcome to apply for a mobility grant to spend three months working at a French institution. … Continued
A ‘Freigeist’Fellowship enables you to go about what you find absolutely important and exciting –and what could become the pivotal step for a successful career in the academia. In some respectsthe ‘Freigeist’Fellowships constitute a counterpoint to the formation of large collaborative research units and priority themes that are likely to offer junior researchers less scope for individual initiative and creativity, … Continued
This call is addressed to postdocs from Germany and abroad who apply A) directly after completing their PhD or B) as advanced postdocs with the aim professorship. The offer is support in your scientific career and in the development of your own research profile. Postdocs in early stage right after finishing PhD receive the possibility to be responsible for and lead their own project. … Continued
Are you a talented early-career scientist who has already produced excellent supervised work, is ready to work independently and shows potential to be a research leader? The ERC Starting Grant could be for you. This program addresses 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 Program). … Continued
The university offers again two positions for female postdocs in 2021 (TV-L 13, 100%, term of 2 years). Those eligible to apply are female postdocs from the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Faculty of Biology and Psychology, Faculty of Chemistry, Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, Faculty of Geosciences and Geography, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Sciences and Faculty of Physics. … Continued
In cooperation with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) the DAAD gives highly qualified postdocs the possibility of a 1-6 month research stay at Japanese universities or research institutions.
The program is open for German postdocs (and those with a permanent residence permit for Germany) of all subjects. … Continued
The next call for the Max-Eder Junior Research Group by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until May 20, 2021.
Aiming at highly qualified young oncologists (physicians during or after the specialist training as well as scientists with an explicit clinic-oriented orientation of the project), who are not older than 35 years on application, … Continued
The next call for the Mildred-Scheel-Postdoc Program by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until May 20, 2021.This postdoctoral funding scheme is providing young doctors and natural scientists the opportunity to carry out projects in clinically oriented oncological basic research or clinical cancer research at renowned institutions abroad. … Continued
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). … Continued
Bristol-Myers Squibb is advertizing trainee-ships at their site in Munich. … Continued
The DKFZ in Heidelberg currently has an open position for a career check manager. … Continued
You already walked around the Kiessee several times and know every tree and every flower there? Then why not go to the moon instead?! On Saturday (March 20, 2021) is Astronomy Day. The MPI for Solar Systems together with the society for the promotion of the Göttingen planetarium invites you for a virtual stroll in space visiting our nearest neighbor: the moon. … Continued
Dear GAUSS postdocs and PhD students,
Over a year has passed since I went on parental leave and who thought back then what challenges 2020 had in store for us all, which are still affecting us in 2021. Over this time, a lot has changed concerning our daily lives but also how things are run at the GAUSS Career Service. … Continued
We are happy to announce our upcoming GAUSS Career Service workshop “Grant Writing” by Dr. John Dixon.
This workshop is intended for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers who are new to the process of applying for a scientific research grant. Ideally, participants should already be in the process of applying for a grant or planning to start writing within the next 3 months. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next project management workshop “Fast Forward – The Ultimate Productivity System for Researchers” with Dr. Nadine Sinclair.
Achieve amazing productivity and reduce your stress level in 7 weeks by implementing the productivity secrets that allow management consultants and high-performing industry teams to generate results quickly. … Continued
This hands-on workshop can provide significant insights in terms of supervisory work to Postdocs who want to improve their leadership skills.
Through self-assessment instruments, group discussions, and a series of interactive exercises and activities, you and your colleagues will develop a repertoire of techniques for addressing issues that commonly arise when supervising students and/or technicians. … Continued
Die eResearch Alliance lädt zu einer Vortragsreihe zu rechtlichen Aspekten im Forschungsdatenmanagement ein. Die Vorträge beginnen jeweils um 12.30. Informationen zum BigBlueButton-Raum werden kurz vor der Veranstaltung über die Webseite der Göttingen eResearch Alliance (www.eresearch.uni-goettingen.de/news-and-events/all/) bekannt geben. Es wird per Chat die Gelegenheit geben, Fragen zu stellen. … Continued
How much entrepreneur is in you? Find out and participate in our workshop tailored to science talents of all disciplines! Learn how to turn your PhD into a startup idea together with 19 other highly motivated researchers led by professional Design Thinking coaches. … Continued
Annually the Körber Foundation is awarding the “Deutsche Studienpreis” for outstanding dissertations (magna or summa cum laude) in all disciplines.
In addition to scientific excellence a specific significance for the society is of particular importance. However, the focus is not necessarily lying on the economic exploitability but on the macrosocial benefit of scientific results. … Continued
The Department of Science and Technology at the French ambassy in Berlin supports German-French cooperations in research and innovation. Doctoral students and postdocs currently working at a German university or research institution are welcome to apply for a mobility grant to spend three months working at a French institution. … Continued
This call is addressed to postdocs from Germany and abroad who apply A) directly after completing their PhD or B) as advanced postdocs with the aim professorship. The offer is support in your scientific career and in the development of your own research profile. Postdocs in early stage right after finishing PhD receive the possibility to be responsible for and lead their own project. … Continued
The university offers again two positions for female postdocs in 2021 (TV-L 13, 100%, term of 2 years). Those eligible to apply are female postdocs from the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Faculty of Biology and Psychology, Faculty of Chemistry, Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, Faculty of Geosciences and Geography, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Sciences and Faculty of Physics. … Continued
In cooperation with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) the DAAD gives highly qualified postdocs the possibility of a 1-6 month research stay at Japanese universities or research institutions.
The program is open for German postdocs (and those with a permanent residence permit for Germany) of all subjects. … Continued
The investigation of solid catalysts under dynamic, externally triggered, conditions is to be focused in this Priority Program on reactions that are relevant for energy storage and conversion. One of the first aims in the Priority Program has been the investigation by temporally and spatially resolved in-situ analysis under operating conditions and the deepening of the understanding through theoretical studies and kinetic modelling at the microscopic and macroscopic levels. … Continued
The Walter Benjamin Program enables researchers in the postdoctoral training phase to independently conduct their own research project at a location of their choice for 2 years. The project can be carried out at a research institution in Germany or abroad, with the host institution providing support for the project. … Continued
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). … Continued
Bristol-Myers Squibb is advertising trainee-ships at their site in Munich. … Continued
The MPI for Biophysical Chemistry currently has an open position for an expert in science communication and public relations: … Continued
The university network ENLIGHT was founded in 2020. The EU will fund the network of nine research-intensive universities, among them the University of Göttingen. ENLIGHT stands for European university Network to promote equitable quality of Life, sustainability and Global engagement through Higher education Transformation: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html?id=5931 and https://uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html?id=6172 … Continued
We are happy to announce our first GAUSS Career Impulse Session in 2021 co-hosted by the university’s start-up support “How to launch your own business?” with Dr. Ulrich Vetter (Nagl & Vetter GmbH) and Martin Stammann (start-up support, Göttingen University)
To start a successful career as entrepreneur is often thought to be closely linked with a sound business idea and a well working business model. … Continued
We are happy to announce our upcoming GAUSS Career Service workshop “Grant Writing” by Dr. John Dixon.
This workshop is intended for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers who are new to the process of applying for a scientific research grant. Ideally, participants should already be in the process of applying for a grant or planning to start writing within the next 3 months. … Continued
Diese Konferenz für Start-ups, Gründungsinteressierte, Unterstützer*innen und Innovator*innenenbietet spannende Einblicke, neue Impulse und einen erneuten Austausch. … Continued
In Kooperation mit dem Team des Projekts „Bausteine zur Medien- und Informationskompetenz PLUS“ der SUB Göttingen bietet die eResearch Alliance dieses Online-Kurzformat an. Sie fragen sich, wie und wo Sie Ihre Daten sinnvoll speichern sollten? Sie möchten mit darüber entscheiden, wie andere Ihre Daten finden und nachnutzen können? Sie wollen, dass Ihre Arbeit mit Daten wissenschaftlich anerkannt und zitiert wird? … Continued
Mehr als 30 Veranstaltungen an zwei Tagen bieten die SNIC Innovationstage, die am 26. und 27. Januar 2021 ihre Premiere feiern. Der SüdniedersachsenInnovationsCampus (SNIC) richtet die virtuelle Innovationsmesse in Kooperation mit der Universität Göttingen aus. Sie bietet Studierenden, Forscher*innen, Vertreter*innen von Unternehmen, Kommunen und öffentlichen Einrichtungen sowie Gründungsinteressierten kostenlose Workshops, Webkonferenzen und Ausstellungen zu den Themen „Innovative Forschung“, … Continued
We are happy to announce a 2-day intensive online training on Good Clinical Practice (GCP).
Good Clinical Practice is an international ethical and scientific standard for the planning, conduct, documentation and reporting of clinical trials in humans. Compliance with these standards creates public confidence that the rights, safety and well-being of trial subjects are protected in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and that the data collected during the clinical trial are credible. … Continued
The NOSTER Science Microbiome Prize is now open for submissions. The prize is an international prize that rewards innovative research by investigators, under the age of 35, who are working on the functional attributes of the microbiota. The research can include any organism that has potential to contribute to our understanding of human or veterinary health and disease, … Continued
The ARISE fellowship program offers fellowships for experienced professionals with a background in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) who wish to advance technology development in the life sciences and receive training to operate life science research infrastructures, which provide novel technologies as a service for life scientists. The ARISE program is co-funded by EMBL and the Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) of the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 program – co-funding of regional, … Continued
Minerva Schools are intended to bring together young Israeli and German scientists through conferences and workshops. The Schools are orientated particularly towards PhD-students and post-doctoral researchers and aim at enabling first contacts, scientific exchange as well as interaction with select senior scientists. In both countries, the participants should come from different institutions. In addition to the Israeli and German participants, … Continued
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 in their field of research. … Continued
The next call for the Mildred-Scheel-Postdoc Program by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until Feb 23, 2021.This postdoctoral funding scheme is providing young doctors and natural scientists the opportunity to carry out projects in clinically oriented oncological basic research or clinical cancer research at renowned institutions abroad. … Continued
The next call for the Max-Eder Junior Research Group by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until Feb 23, 2021.
Aiming at highly qualified young oncologists (physicians during or after the specialist training as well as scientists with an explicit clinic-oriented orientation of the project), who are not older than 35 years on application, … Continued
Annually the Körber Foundation is awarding the “Deutsche Studienpreis” for outstanding dissertations (magna or summa cum laude) in all disciplines.
In addition to scientific excellence a specific significance for the society is of particular importance. However, the focus is not necessarily lying on the economic exploitability but on the macrosocial benefit of scientific results. … Continued
The Medical Department at the University of Bielefeld has currently three open positions in Science Management. … Continued
Due to the suspicion of a bomb in Godehardstraße in Göttingen, all residents within a radius of 1,000 meters of the bomb site must leave their homes on Saturday, Jan 30, 2021. Those affected are called upon to organize accommodation for the day of the defusing – in a private environment or in a hotel, for example. … Continued
GAUSS Career Service will be taking a well-deserved break during the holidays. We will not be available between Dec 21 and Jan 4 accordingly. We wish you pleasant holidays and a good turn of the year. Enjoy the free time! … Continued
You are not sure what will be the next steps in your career? You would like to stay in academia and you would like to improve your strategy? You think about a career outside academia? You would simply like to have your CV checked? You already made New Year’s resolutions that you finally want to deal with these questions in 2021? … Continued
Our first GAUSS Career Workshop in 2021 will be “Leading Teams in Academia. Multiple Perspectives for Greater Awareness” by Dr. Matteo Garavoglia. There are only three seats left, so you’d better be quick…
What is leadership? Which roles do different individuals play within a team? What dynamics underpin effective team communication? Which tolls can one employ to provide more effective supervision? … Continued
We are happy to announce our first GAUSS Career Impulse Session in 2021 co-hosted by the university’s start-up support “How to launch your own business?” with Dr. Ulrich Vetter (Nagl & Vetter GmbH) and Dr. Roland Heinz (start-up support, Göttingen University)
To start a successful career as entrepreneur is often thought to be closely linked with a sound business idea and a well working business model. … Continued
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 in their field of research. … Continued
In February we will have the GAUSS Career Service workshop “Exploring the Unknown – The Company World” by Dr. Gaby Schilling in our program.
This workshop is designed for postdoctoral scientist 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. … Continued
The next call for the Mildred-Scheel-Postdoc Program by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until Feb 23, 2021.This postdoctoral funding scheme is providing young doctors and natural scientists the opportunity to carry out projects in clinically oriented oncological basic research or clinical cancer research at renowned institutions abroad. … Continued
We are happy to announce a 2-day intensive online training on Good Clinical Practice (GCP).
Good Clinical Practice is an international ethical and scientific standard for the planning, conduct, documentation and reporting of clinical trials in humans. Compliance with these standards creates public confidence that the rights, safety and well-being of trial subjects are protected in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and that the data collected during the clinical trial are credible. … Continued
Mehr als 30 Veranstaltungen an zwei Tagen bieten die SNIC Innovationstage, die am 26. und 27. Januar 2021 ihre Premiere feiern. Der SüdniedersachsenInnovationsCampus (SNIC) richtet die virtuelle Innovationsmesse in Kooperation mit der Universität Göttingen aus. Sie bietet Studierenden, Forscher*innen, Vertreter*innen von Unternehmen, Kommunen und öffentlichen Einrichtungen sowie Gründungsinteressierten kostenlose Workshops, Webkonferenzen und Ausstellungen zu den Themen „Innovative Forschung“, … Continued
The next call for the Max-Eder Junior Research Group by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until Feb 23, 2021.
Aiming at highly qualified young oncologists (physicians during or after the specialist training as well as scientists with an explicit clinic-oriented orientation of the project), who are not older than 35 years on application, … Continued
The course “Bringing Data to the Point” provides a foundation in data visualisation and introduces visualization forms, various tools and basic design rules that help to graphically present information and findings in an approachable way. The course is available as an ILIAS learning module on StudIP and at the OpenILIAS-platform for non-members of the university. … Continued
Annually the Körber Foundation is awarding the “Deutsche Studienpreis” for outstanding dissertations (magna or summa cum laude) in all disciplines.
In addition to scientific excellence a specific significance for the society is of particular importance. However, the focus is not necessarily lying on the economic exploitability but on the macrosocial benefit of scientific results. … Continued
Various postdoc positions are currently open in Aachen, Magdeburg, Cologne, Mannheim, and Dummerstorf (near Rostock). … Continued
The Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science is a unique postdoc program. It awards young researchers around the world with a generous personal research grant, giving them the freedom to work on whatever topic they choose anywhere in the world, for up to five years. This research fellowship is designed to support postdoctoral researchers after their PhD and before their first faculty appointment. … Continued
The University of Hanover is currently looking for a “Referent*in (m/w/d) für Open Science und Forschungsdatenmanagement”. … Continued
The Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators was first established in 1995. It acknowledges outstanding contributions to biomedical research in Europe based on methods of molecular biology, including novel analytical concepts.
The Award is presented in partnership with the scientific journal Nature and the prize money is 20,000€. … Continued
As the first edition of the online seminar “Ready 4 Horizon Europe” was nearly overcrowded KoWi, the European Liaison Offince of German Research Organizations, decided to re-run the event. They give you an overview of the various aspects of the future EU framework program for research and innovation Horizon Europe. The information event will be given in German. … Continued
Open Science aims at opening up research processes and granting access to research outputs to researchers, professionals and amateur scientists. Open Science covers several aspects: open access to publications, data and code, sharing of methodologies, open peer review, and open educational resources. … Continued
ERC Consolidator Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or program. Applicant Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their scientific proposal.
Researchers of any nationality with 7-12 years of experience since completion of PhD (Extensions are possible under certain circumstances — see the latest ERC Work Program), … Continued
… a good laugh can always help you through the day. And if you’re waiting for a scientific inspiration to occur or you’re procrastinating anyway, you can as well check out this wonderful comic website dealing with every day life in research. … Continued
The NOSTER Science Microbiome Prize is now open for submissions. The prize is an international prize that rewards innovative research by investigators, under the age of 35, who are working on the functional attributes of the microbiota. The research can include any organism that has potential to contribute to our understanding of human or veterinary health and disease, … Continued
The ARISE fellowship program offers fellowships for experienced professionals with a background in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) who wish to advance technology development in the life sciences and receive training to operate life science research infrastructures, which provide novel technologies as a service for life scientists. The ARISE program is co-funded by EMBL and the Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) of the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 program – co-funding of regional, … Continued
You are not sure what will be the next steps in your career? You would like to stay in academia and you would like to improve your strategy? You think about a career outside academia? You would simply like to have your CV checked?
Whatever it is that’s bothering you, GAUSS Career Service is here for you: Vera Bissinger will be happy to guide you on the way to your possible future dream job and help you with your career-related questions. … Continued
We finally decided not to wait until we have our “old normal” back. We will re-start our career impulse series online, though, of course, it would be much nicer to have you around face-to-face, have a chat with you and to invite you for “Kaffee und Kuchen” after the session.The sessions will be taking place once a month on Fridays 14:00 until approximately 15:30 (as usually), … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Workshop “On your path towards professorship” by Silke Oehrlein-Karpi. This workshop is intended for postdoctoral scientists with at least one year postdoc experience pursuing an academic career and in the long term a professorship. There is only one free slot available. … Continued
Our first GAUSS Career Workshop in 2021 will be “Leading Teams in Academia. Multiple Perspectives for Greater Awareness” by Dr. Matteo Garavoglia.
What is leadership? Which roles do different individuals play within a team? What dynamics underpin effective team communication? Which tolls can one employ to provide more effective supervision? This workshop helps you to develop the tools to effectively answer some of these questions. … Continued
In February we will have the GAUSS Career Service workshop “Exploring the Unknown – The Company World” by Dr. Gaby Schilling on our program.
This workshop is designed for postdoctoral scientist 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. … Continued
We are happy to announce a 2-day intensive online training on Good Clinical Practice (GCP).
Good Clinical Practice is an international ethical and scientific standard for the planning, conduct, documentation and reporting of clinical trials in humans. Compliance with these standards creates public confidence that the rights, safety and well-being of trial subjects are protected in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and that the data collected during the clinical trial are credible. … Continued
The university’s career service cordially invites all PhD students to this event with HR consultant Wolfgang Leybold. In this interactive lecture he will share insights on what recruiters look for during the hiring process by changing your perspective to that of a recruiter. You will then learn how to understand your skill set as your “product” that helps you to stand out of the crowd and to develop your very own communication and application strategies by highlighting skills which you have acquired during your university career. … Continued
The university’s start-up support is offering a bunch of highly interesting events and workshops (some in English, some in German) this autumn. You are wondering, if you have what it takes to found your own company or start-up? Could your research topic be interesting outside academia? What skills do you need? You invented or constructed something really cool for your lab work and you think others could make use of it, … Continued
The University of Göttingen is offering a mentoring program for female doctoral and postdoctoral researchers at Göttingen Campus, designed to accompany young female researchers through this phase of their development. It represents a contribution to increasing the number of women in leading positions at universities and non-university institutions.
Dorothea Schlözer Mentoring Program
What are my career prospects as scientist/scholar? … Continued
The Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science is a unique postdoc program. It awards young researchers around the world with a generous personal research grant, giving them the freedom to work on whatever topic they choose anywhere in the world, for up to five years. This research fellowship is designed to support postdoctoral researchers after their PhD and before their first faculty appointment. … Continued
The Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators was first established in 1995. It acknowledges outstanding contributions to biomedical research in Europe based on methods of molecular biology, including novel analytical concepts.
The Award is presented in partnership with the scientific journal Nature and the prize money is 20,000€. … Continued
ERC Consolidator Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or program. Applicant Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their scientific proposal.
Researchers of any nationality with 7-12 years of experience since completion of PhD (Extensions are possible under certain circumstances — see the latest ERC Work Program), … Continued
The NOSTER Science Microbiome Prize is now open for submissions. The prize is an international prize that rewards innovative research by investigators, under the age of 35, who are working on the functional attributes of the microbiota. The research can include any organism that has potential to contribute to our understanding of human or veterinary health and disease, … Continued
The next call for the Mildred-Scheel-Postdoc Program by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until Feb 23, 2021.This postdoctoral funding scheme is providing young doctors and natural scientists the opportunity to carry out projects in clinically oriented oncological basic research or clinical cancer research at renowned institutions abroad. … Continued
The next call for the Max-Eder Junior Research Group by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until Feb 23, 2021.
Aiming at highly qualified young oncologists (physicians during or after the specialist training as well as scientists with an explicit clinic-oriented orientation of the project), who are not older than 35 years on application, … Continued
Annually the Körber Foundation is awarding the “Deutsche Studienpreis” for outstanding dissertations (magna or summa cum laude) in all disciplines.
In addition to scientific excellence a specific significance for the society is of particular importance. However, the focus is not necessarily lying on the economic exploitability but on the macrosocial benefit of scientific results. … Continued
The alliance of German research communities is currently looking for a “wissenschaftliche*r Referent*in” in the initiative “informing on animal testing”. … Continued
On November 27, 2020, the European Researchers’ Night 2020 will take place at several locations and research institutions in Europe. Traditionally, the European Researchers’ Night is organized on the last Friday in September. This year, however, the event had to be postponed due to the current Corona pandemic.
The EU funds the European Researchers’ Night through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. … Continued
There are only two seats left in our upcoming GAUSS Career Service workshop “Grant Writing” by Dr. John Dixon. So you’d better be quick.
This workshop is intended for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers who are new to the process of applying for a scientific research grant. Ideally, participants should already be in the process of applying for a grant or planning to start writing within the next 3 months. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service virtual workshop “Job Hunting and Application Skills” by Gaby Schilling. The workshop deals with how to write a professional application. Participants will learn about the requirements regarding form and content of CVs and the respective differences between academia and industry. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshop “Conflict Management” by Dr Neela Enke.
The ability to deal with conflicts is a key component of professional conduct and an important factor for personal and professional success. The workshop enables the participants to experience conflict as agent of innovation, professional and personal development. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Workshop “On your path towards professorship” by Silke Oehrlein-Karpi. This workshop is intended for postdoctoral scientists with at least one year postdoc experience pursuing an academic career and in the long term a professorship.
Date: Monday, 7 December 2020 (module I), … Continued
The Equal Opportunities and Diversity Unit announces a workshop on self-defencse and self-assertion for women. Participants will learn simple and effective techniques for self-protection that will enable them to immediately defend themselves in an assault situation. For this purpose attendees will be taught punches, kicks, freeing oneself from an opponent’s hold and other defense techniques. … Continued
You are a PhD student or postdoc and want to take your career into your own hands, but you don’t have a business idea yet? Then this “Young Entrepreneurs in Science”-webinar is for you! Entrepreneurial thinking does not start with a business plan or even a business idea. Rather, our approach is to ask: “What if you had to live off your PhD project/research project?“ Participants will receive insights into their innovative potential and new career and development perspectives. … Continued
For the first time in history the annual EMBL PhD Symposium will be taking place online and you are cordially invited.
Over the next ten years, vast progress will be achieved within the life sciences and new challenges are emerging. The organizers are dedicated to bring together outstanding researchers from a broad range of disciplines that implement highly promising approaches to tackle the current scientific questions as well as the global problems we face as a scientific community and as humanity. … Continued
Do you hold a W1 assistant professorship (with or without Tenure Track) or are you an ambitious leader of a junior research group (e.g., Emmy Noether, ERC Starting Grant, or similar)? Are you working in the natural or engineering sciences, medicine or psychology? Are you aiming for obtaining a full professorship or habilitation?
Apply now for the Hector Research Career Development (RCD) Award! … Continued
The Azrieli Foundation is launching its revamped International Postdoctoral Fellowship for research at Israeli universities in STEM, Humanities and Social Sciences. Ideal candidates will have an excellent academic track record and the potential to perform groundbreaking research, alongside an intellectual curiosity that transcends their field of study. They will possess a character that facilitates scientific and societal leadership, … Continued
The Minerva Short-Term Research Grant gives young German and Israeli scientists from all subjects the opportunity to visit research partners and to establish contacts with scientists in the respective guest country. Jointly funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), the grants also allow scientists to participate in seminars and workshops, … Continued
The next call for the Max-Eder Junior Research Group by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until Nov 12, 2020.
Aiming at highly qualified young oncologists (physicians during or after the specialist training as well as scientists with an explicit clinic-oriented orientation of the project), who are not older than 35 years on application, … Continued
The next call for the Mildred-Scheel-Postdoc Program by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until Nov 12, 2020.This postdoctoral funding scheme is providing young doctors and natural scientists the opportunity to carry out projects in clinically oriented oncological basic research or clinical cancer research at renowned institutions abroad. … Continued
Every two years the University Medical Centre (UMG) is inviting applications for the Margaret Maltby Mentoring Program. This program is offering young female scientists the opportunity to manage their careers successfully with mentoring; a combination of personal accompaniment by a female or male mentor, training and qualification as a person of leadership, … Continued
The NOSTER Science Microbiome Prize is now open for submissions. The prize is an international prize that rewards innovative research by investigators, under the age of 35, who are working on the functional attributes of the microbiota. The research can include any organism that has potential to contribute to our understanding of human or veterinary health and disease, … Continued
The Walter Benjamin Program enables researchers in the postdoctoral training phase to independently conduct their own research project at a location of their choice for 2 years. The project can be carried out at a research institution in Germany or abroad, with the host institution providing support for the project. … Continued
Nano Temper Technologies is hiring at their site in Munich. They are currently looking for a field application secialist. … Continued
Aesculap AG / B Braun is offering an internship at their site in Tuttlingen (unit Medical Scientific Affairs). … Continued
Die Life Science Factory lädt Dr. Beatrix Förster ein, um von ihren Erfahrungen im Bereich Entrepreneurship zu berichten. Sie ist derzeit Geschäftsführerin von Holiko B.V. und Doderm GmbH – beides Startups im Bereich Immuntherapien durch Hautpflegeprodukte für den Human- bzw. Veterinärmarkt. Beatrix Förster ist Humanbiologin und hat in verschiedenen Positionen in der akademischen Forschung sowie im Biotech Bereich wertvolle Erfahrungen im In- und Ausland sammeln können. … Continued
You are not sure what will be the next steps in your career? You would like to stay in academia and you would like to improve your strategy? You think about a career outside academia? You would simply like to have your CV checked?
Whatever it is that’s bothering you, GAUSS Career Service is here for you: Vera Bissinger will be happy to guide you on the way to your possible future dream job and help you with your career-related questions. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshop “Grant Writing” by Dr. John Dixon.
This workshop is intended for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers who are new to the process of applying for a scientific research grant. Ideally, participants should already be in the process of applying for a grant or planning to start writing within the next 3 months. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service virtual workshop “Job Hunting and Application Skills” by Gaby Schilling. The workshop deals with how to write a professional application. Participants will learn about the requirements regarding form and content of CVs and the respective differences between academia and industry. … Continued
Every two years the University Medical Centre (UMG) is inviting applications for the Margaret Maltby Mentoring Program. This program is offering young female scientists the opportunity to manage their careers successfully with mentoring; a combination of personal accompaniment by a female or male mentor, training and qualification as a person of leadership, … Continued
For the first time in history the annual EMBL PhD Symposium will be taking place online and you are cordially invited.
Over the next ten years, vast progress will be achieved within the life sciences and new challenges are emerging. The organizers are dedicated to bring together outstanding researchers from a broad range of disciplines that implement highly promising approaches to tackle the current scientific questions as well as the global problems we face as a scientific community and as humanity. … Continued
As part of ESA’s continuing commitment to realise cutting-edge satellite missions to advance the scientific understanding of our planet and to show how new technologies can be used in space, a new Call for Earth Explorer mission ideas has been released today.
The Call invites scientists working in Earth observation to submit ideas for ESA’s 11th Earth Explorer mission. … Continued
Each year, the Daimler and Benz Foundation awards twelve scholarships to selected postdoctoral researchers, junior professors or heads of junior research groups. The objective is to reinforce the autonomy and creativity of the next generation of scientists and to pave the way for the dedicated researchers’ professional careers during the productive phase following their doctorates. The annual subsidy amount is EUR 20,000 per scholarship, … Continued
Every two years the German Neuroscience Society awards the Schilling Research Prize for outstanding scientific achievements in the neurosciences to young researchers. … Continued
Do you hold a W1 assistant professorship (with or without Tenure Track) or are you an ambitious leader of a junior research group (e.g., Emmy Noether, ERC Starting Grant, or similar)? Are you working in the natural or engineering sciences, medicine or psychology? Are you aiming for obtaining a full professorship or habilitation?
Apply now for the Hector Research Career Development (RCD) Award! … Continued
The Azrieli Foundation is launching its revamped International Postdoctoral Fellowship for research at Israeli universities in STEM, Humanities and Social Sciences. Ideal candidates will have an excellent academic track record and the potential to perform groundbreaking research, alongside an intellectual curiosity that transcends their field of study. They will possess a character that facilitates scientific and societal leadership, … Continued
The Minerva Short-Term Research Grant gives young German and Israeli scientists from all subjects the opportunity to visit research partners and to establish contacts with scientists in the respective guest country. Jointly funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), the grants also allow scientists to participate in seminars and workshops, … Continued
The next call for the Mildred-Scheel-Postdoc Program by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until Nov 12, 2020.This postdoctoral funding scheme is providing young doctors and natural scientists the opportunity to carry out projects in clinically oriented oncological basic research or clinical cancer research at renowned institutions abroad. … Continued
The next call for the Max-Eder Junior Research Group by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until Nov 12, 2020.
Aiming at highly qualified young oncologists (physicians during or after the specialist training as well as scientists with an explicit clinic-oriented orientation of the project), who are not older than 35 years on application, … Continued
Boehringer Ingelheim is currently hiring at their sithe in Biberach. … Continued
Bristol-Myers Squibb is advertising trainee-ships at their site in Munich. … Continued
Your research project did not turn out as expected? If so, it’s still worth publishing on it. In scientific practice, trial and error is a fundamental process of learning and discovery. Therefore, JOTE wants to make public the lessons of the struggles in research. The editors are convinced about the productive role of errors, … Continued
There are still two seats available in our first workshop after this year’s summer break “Supervisory Practice and Leadership in Science” by Dr. Silke Oehrlein-Karpi. So you’d better be quick.
Leadership means giving people orientation and motivating them to achieve defined goals by giving their best. Leadership succeeds not based on a particular recipe, … Continued
We are happy to announce our next project management workshop “Fast Forward – The Ultimate Productivity System for Researchers” with Dr. Nadine Sinclair.
Achieve amazing productivity and reduce your stress levels in 7 weeks by implementing the productivity secrets that allows management consultants and high-performing industry teams to generate results quickly. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshop “Grant Writing” by Dr. John Dixon.
This workshop is intended for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers who are new to the process of applying for a scientific research grant. Ideally, participants should already be in the process of applying for a grant or planning to start writing within the next 3 months. … Continued
We are happy to announce another 5-day course on Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP). Due to the current situation the course will take place online this time!
Dates: Sep 28 – Oct 2, 2020
Early bird registration ends on August 28, 2020!
Registration via e-mail to career@gauss-uni-goettingen.de (your data will be forwarded to the course organizers) … Continued
The Ernst Strüngmann Institute Systems Neuroscience Conference (ESI SyNC) 2020 will be held this year on August 24-26 as a fully virtual conference.
This year’s theme is Causal Approaches in Neuroscience.
The conference will feature eleven internationally renowned speakers who will give talks on optogenetic approaches, microstimulation, cortical cooling and other forms of neuronal activity manipulation. … Continued
The 17th Horizons in Molecular Biology will take place September 14-17. Due to the COVID-Pandemic and the related uncertainties regarding travels and gatherings of large crowds the organizers decided to host the event this year online using the webinar platform BigMarker.
Also this year the conference will host a career fair. For the 14th Career Fair the conference committee happily announces talks by Daniela Maisel from Roche, … Continued
With funds from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the DAAD PRIME program funds temporary positions at German universities to support the international mobility of postdoctoral researchers.
Postdoctoral researchers who see their long-term career perspectives in Germany receive funding for a research stay abroad based on a temporary position at a German university. … Continued
Within the Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) the new call for “Individual Fellowships” (IF) was published. Applications are due by September 9, 2020 (17:00:00 CET).
The Individual Fellowships promote individual research projects of experienced researchers at research institutions in Europe and abroad. Researchers can apply for a MSCA “Individual Fellowship” if they have completed a doctoral degree or have evidence of four years of full-time research after completing their university studies. … Continued
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. … Continued
As part of ESA’s continuing commitment to realise cutting-edge satellite missions to advance the scientific understanding of our planet and to show how new technologies can be used in space, a new Call for Earth Explorer mission ideas has been released today.
The Call invites scientists working in Earth observation to submit ideas for ESA’s 11th Earth Explorer mission. … Continued
Do you hold a W1 assistant professorship (with or without Tenure Track) or are you an ambitious leader of a junior research group (e.g., Emmy Noether, ERC Starting Grant, or similar)? Are you working in the natural or engineering sciences, medicine or psychology? Are you aiming for obtaining a full professorship or habilitation?
Apply now for the Hector Research Career Development (RCD) Award! … Continued
Each year, the Daimler and Benz Foundation awards twelve scholarships to selected postdoctoral researchers, junior professors or heads of junior research groups. The objective is to reinforce the autonomy and creativity of the next generation of scientists and to pave the way for the dedicated researchers’ professional careers during the productive phase following their doctorates. The annual subsidy amount is EUR 20,000 per scholarship, … Continued
Every two years the German Neuroscience Society awards the Schilling Research Prize for outstanding scientific achievements in the neurosciences to young researchers. … Continued
Ferroptosis is a prevalent and disease-relevant form of cell death characterized by specific metabolic constraints and an iron-dependent accumulation of lipid hydroperoxides. Emerging evidence suggests that ferroptosis is an ancient form of cell death and an evolutionary conserved susceptibility to cell death caused by the incorporation of polyunsaturated fatty acids into cellular membranes. Notably, this complex cellular death pathway has been found to be dysfunctional in various pathological contexts. … Continued
Despite the outstanding success of deep learning-based methods, most of the research on deep neural networks is empirically driven and mathematical foundations are largely missing. Moreover, in several special but important cases these techniques dramatically fail under small perturbations such as adversarial examples in image classification, which calls for improvements driven by a theoretical underpinning. … Continued
DBT and DFG resume their open synchronised funding program for fundamental research projects in all fields of the life sciences
The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) wish to inform the Indian and German scientific communities that, effective immediately, it is possible for teams of Indian and German researchers to seek synchronised funding for integrated Indo-German cutting-edge fundamental research projects proposing innovative approaches in the academic disciplines covered by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), … Continued
The Walter Benjamin Program enables researchers in the postdoctoral training phase to independently conduct their own research project at a location of their choice for 2 years. The project can be carried out at a research institution in Germany or abroad, with the host institution providing support for the project. … Continued
The Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research (HIH), together with the University of Tübingen’s Neurology
Hospital, forms the Center of Neurology. It is dedicated to research, treatment, and teaching focused on the diseases of the human brain.
The independent research group “Molecular Brain Development” headed by Dr. Simone Mayer (alumna of the Molecular Biology Program in Göttingen) at the HIH is currently looking for a PhD student. … Continued
Pfizer currently is offering an internship at their site in Freiburg. … Continued
Finally, a wonderful piece of campus culture is back on track: the “Theater im OP” (ThOP) will be re-opening. Of course, not in the usual manner… For the first shows there will be only 30 persons allowed in the audience. The first events will be impro shows by “QuerQuasseler” and “Improsant” at the end of August. … Continued
We will be taking a summer break July 31 – August 10, 2020. Afterwards we will be back for! … Continued
Despite the corona crisis GAUSS Career Service still offers personal guidance on your next career steps. Vera Bissinger will be happy to give you individual advice on planning careers inside or outside academia. You can have your CV and your application checked. Just contact us via career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de and make an appointment for an online councelling session. … Continued
We are happy to announce our first workshop after this year’s summer break “Supervisory Practice and Leadership in Science” by Dr. Silke Oehrlein-Karpi.
Leadership means giving people orientation and motivating them to achieve defined goals by giving their best. Leadership succeeds not based on a particular recipe, but a complex process, … Continued
We are happy to announce our next project management workshop “Fast Forward – The Ultimate Productivity System for Researchers” with Dr. Nadine Sinclair.
Achieve amazing productivity and reduce your stress levels in 7 weeks by implementing the productivity secrets that allows management consultants and high-performing industry teams to generate results quickly. … Continued
The 17th Horizons in Molecular Biology will take place September 14-17. Due to the COVID-Pandemic and the related uncertainties regarding travels and gatherings of large crowds the organizers decided to host the event this year online using the webinar platform BigMarker.
Also this year the conference will host a career fair. For the 14th Career Fair the conference committee happily announces talks by Daniela Maisel from Roche, … Continued
We are happy to announce another 5-day course on Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP). Due to the current situation the course will take place online this time!
Dates: Sep 28 – Oct 2, 2020
Registration via e-mail to career@gauss-uni-goettingen.de (your data will be forwarded to the course organizers) … Continued
Did you know? The highly prestigous Nature magazine offers online trainings, the so-called masterclasses. In their portfolio they have a masterclass on the peer review process.
Focus on Peer Review (masterclasses.nature.com/online-course-on-peer-review/16507836) is a free-to-access course, aimed at researchers who are new to peer review or wish to refresh their skills. … Continued
The European Commission has launched a website with information on the Corona pandemic. There you can find all changes to postponed deadlines as well as links to the continuously updated FAQs on the implementation and assessment of Horizon 2020 projects. … Continued
In view of the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on research activities, the German Research Foundation (DFG) has established a homepage with regular updates on their work at www.dfg.de/en/service/press/reports/2020/200318_corona_news/index.html … Continued
The “Nationale Kontaktstelle Lebenswissenschaften” invites all interested scientists to attend their online seminars. In their seminars you will reseive useful hints and gain insight on how to apply for a Horizon 2020 grant in the Lifesciences. … Continued
With funds from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the DAAD PRIME program funds temporary positions at German universities to support the international mobility of postdoctoral researchers.
Postdoctoral researchers who see their long-term career perspectives in Germany receive funding for a research stay abroad based on a temporary position at a German university. … Continued
Within the Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) the new call for “Individual Fellowships” (IF) was published. Applications are due by September 9, 2020 (17:00:00 CET).
The Individual Fellowships promote individual research projects of experienced researchers at research institutions in Europe and abroad. Researchers can apply for a MSCA “Individual Fellowship” if they have completed a doctoral degree or have evidence of four years of full-time research after completing their university studies. … Continued
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. … Continued
As part of ESA’s continuing commitment to realise cutting-edge satellite missions to advance the scientific understanding of our planet and to show how new technologies can be used in space, a new Call for Earth Explorer mission ideas has been released today.
The Call invites scientists working in Earth observation to submit ideas for ESA’s 11th Earth Explorer mission. … Continued
DBT and DFG resume their open synchronised funding program for fundamental research projects in all fields of the life sciences
The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) wish to inform the Indian and German scientific communities that, effective immediately, it is possible for teams of Indian and German researchers to seek synchronised funding for integrated Indo-German cutting-edge fundamental research projects proposing innovative approaches in the academic disciplines covered by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), … Continued
Ferroptosis is a prevalent and disease-relevant form of cell death characterized by specific metabolic constraints and an iron-dependent accumulation of lipid hydroperoxides. Emerging evidence suggests that ferroptosis is an ancient form of cell death and an evolutionary conserved susceptibility to cell death caused by the incorporation of polyunsaturated fatty acids into cellular membranes. Notably, this complex cellular death pathway has been found to be dysfunctional in various pathological contexts. … Continued
Despite the outstanding success of deep learning-based methods, most of the research on deep neural networks is empirically driven and mathematical foundations are largely missing. Moreover, in several special but important cases these techniques dramatically fail under small perturbations such as adversarial examples in image classification, which calls for improvements driven by a theoretical underpinning. … Continued
The Walter Benjamin Program enables researchers in the postdoctoral training phase to independently conduct their own research project at a location of their choice for 2 years. The project can be carried out at a research institution in Germany or abroad, with the host institution providing support for the project. … Continued
There is an open postion as research associate at the LMU Biocenter, chair of Evolutionary Ecology: … Continued
Max Planck Society is hiring at their central unit in Munich offering a position in Human Ressources Developement (esp. Leadership in Science) as parental leave substitute for 1.5 years. … Continued
Your actual summer plans had to be cancelled and you still want to explore the world? You can do this by taste and take a culinary trip.The university’s corporate health management together with the international office published an international cook book with wonderful recipes from all over the world. From Afghanistan to Yemen, … Continued
Our next GAUSS Career Service workshop “Career Planning” by Dr. Matthias Merkelbach is fully booked already, but still you might be lucky via waiting list:
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? … Continued
We are happy to announce our first workshop after this year’s summer break “Supervisory Practice and Leadership in Science” by Dr. Silke Oehrlein-Karpi.
Leadership means giving people orientation and motivating them to achieve defined goals by giving their best. Leadership succeeds not based on a particular recipe, but a complex process, … Continued
…there is no reason why you cannot inform yourself on the perspectives of potential employers on applicants holding a PhD or learn from the expierence of others who were on the job hunt.
The German University Association of Advanced Graduate Training (UniWiND Universitätverband zur Qualifizierung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses in Deutschland) published two small booklets (unfortunately only in German) on careers outside academia, … Continued
We are happy to announce this free webinar sponsored by Science/AAAS and Sartorius:
Biologics are the fastest growing class of therapeutics in the biopharmaceutical industry. A key driver for this growth is success with anticancer immunotherapeutics such as checkpoint modulation, adoptive cell therapy, and bispecific T-cell engagers. While these approaches use different tactics to attack tumors, … Continued
Since the beginning of the corona crisis it has become particularly clear how important online communication is for the survival of the economy. Not least the start-ups have been hit by the crisis in that events, trade fairs and, in particular, investor meetings are taking place digitally. That this change is a special feature becomes particularly clear when start-ups have to pitch online. … Continued
We are happy to announce another 5-day course on Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP). Due to the current situation the course will take place online this time!
Dates: Sep 28 – Oct 2, 2020
Registration via e-mail to career@gauss-uni-goettingen.de (your data will be forwarded to the course organizers) … Continued
Did you know? The highly prestigous Nature magazine offers online trainings, the so-called masterclasses. In their portfolio they have a masterclass on the peer review process.
Focus on Peer Review (masterclasses.nature.com/online-course-on-peer-review/16507836) is a free-to-access course, aimed at researchers who are new to peer review or wish to refresh their skills. … Continued
The European Commission has launched a website with information on the Corona pandemic. There you can find all changes to postponed deadlines as well as links to the continuously updated FAQs on the implementation and assessment of Horizon 2020 projects. … Continued
In view of the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on research activities, the German Research Foundation (DFG) has extended the submission deadline for several of its current calls for proposals. Further deadline extensions will be introduced if necessary. Researchers can find regular updates at www.dfg.de/en/service/press/reports/2020/200318_corona_news/index.html … Continued
The Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists is an annual prize awarded to early-career scientists. The prize is presented in four categories:
Applicants are to submit a 1000-word essay that is judged by an independent editorial team organized by the journal Science. … Continued
The Minerva-Gentner Symposium is a format to bring together Israeli scientists with colleagues from Germany and other countries through conferences, workshops etc.They are intended to enable scientific discourse, exchange of ideas, and new interactions in a given field of research. Furthermore, the Symposia should initiate new collaborative efforts in fields that are highly innovative and not yet in the focus of German-Israeli cooperation. … Continued
With funds from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the DAAD PRIME program funds temporary positions at German universities to support the international mobility of postdoctoral researchers.
Postdoctoral researchers who see their long-term career perspectives in Germany receive funding for a research stay abroad based on a temporary position at a German university. … Continued
Within the Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) the new call for “Individual Fellowships” (IF) was published. Applications are due by September 9, 2020 (17:00:00 CET).
The Individual Fellowships promote individual research projects of experienced researchers at research institutions in Europe and abroad. Researchers can apply for a MSCA “Individual Fellowship” if they have completed a doctoral degree or have evidence of four years of full-time research after completing their university studies. … Continued
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. … Continued
As part of ESA’s continuing commitment to realise cutting-edge satellite missions to advance the scientific understanding of our planet and to show how new technologies can be used in space, a new Call for Earth Explorer mission ideas has been released today.
The Call invites scientists working in Earth observation to submit ideas for ESA’s 11th Earth Explorer mission. … Continued
DBT and DFG resume their open synchronised funding program for fundamental research projects in all fields of the life sciences
The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) wish to inform the Indian and German scientific communities that, effective immediately, it is possible for teams of Indian and German researchers to seek synchronised funding for integrated Indo-German cutting-edge fundamental research projects proposing innovative approaches in the academic disciplines covered by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), … Continued
The Walter Benjamin Program enables researchers in the postdoctoral training phase to independently conduct their own research project at a location of their choice for 2 years. The project can be carried out at a research institution in Germany or abroad, with the host institution providing support for the project. … Continued
Usually, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) announces funding calls etc. However, this time they announced a lottery. BMBF has beehives around their offices in Bonn and Berlin and produces their own honey (very sustainable!). They are willing to share with you and you can win a glass of original BMBF honey. … Continued
Even in times when personal contact should be avoided, GAUSS Career Service still offers personal guidance on your next career steps. Vera Bissinger will be happy to give you individual advice on planning careers inside or outside academia. You can have your CV and your application checked. Just contact us via career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de and make an appointment for an online councelling session. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshop “Conflict Management” by Dr Neela Enke.
The ability to deal with conflicts is a key component of professional conduct and an important factor for personal and professional success. The workshop enables the participants to experience conflict as agent of innovation, professional and personal development. … Continued
We are happy to announce our July GAUSS Career Service workshops: “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 embarking on an academic career path or other career choices. … Continued
If you are considering a career in industry related to the production of medicines, cosmetics, food and feed, take this excellent opportunity to attend the Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) online-workshop (Sep 28 – Oct 2, 2020) and save the date.
The course language will be German as it predominantly deals with guidelines and regulations specific for the German market. … Continued
In course of the lecture series Alumni4Students Dr. Julia Gumula (Senior Manager Communications, B. Braun, Melsungen) shares her six essential learnings that anyone can apply in order to prototype the way forward. She provides you with the tools to design your roles and reasons getting up for in the morning – which is the meaning of IKIGAI in Japanese. … Continued
Each year several thousand highly educated and highly motivated graduates leave our university. The job and career fair “PraxisBörse” is the ideal environment to get to know company representatives and young professionals. This year, it is unfortunately not possible to host the PraxisBörse in the usual atmosphere. Therefore, the PraxisBörse 2020 will take place for the first time in a virtual format. … Continued
In view of the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on research activities, the German Research Foundation (DFG) has extended the submission deadline for several of its current calls for proposals. Further deadline extensions will be introduced if necessary. Researchers can find regular updates at www.dfg.de/en/service/press/reports/2020/200318_corona_news/index.html … Continued
The European Commission has launched a website with information on the Corona pandemic. There you can find all changes to postponed deadlines as well as links to the continuously updated FAQs on the implementation and assessment of Horizon 2020 projects. … Continued
The next call for the Mildred-Scheel-Postdoc Program by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until May 26, 2020.This postdoctoral funding scheme is providing young doctors and natural scientists the opportunity to carry out projects in clinically oriented oncological basic research or clinical cancer research at renowned institutions abroad. … Continued
The next call for the Max-Eder Junior Research Group by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until May 26, 2020.
Aiming at highly qualified young oncologists (physicians during or after the specialist training as well as scientists with an explicit clinic-oriented orientation of the project), who are not older than 35 years on application, … Continued
The Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology is an international research prize of US$25,000. Since 2002 it has been awarded annually to one young scientist who is not older than 35 years for the most outstanding neurobiological research based on methods of molecular and cell biology. … Continued
Within the Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) the new call for “Individual Fellowships” (IF) was published. Applications are due by September 9, 2020 (17:00:00 CET).
The Individual Fellowships promote individual research projects of experienced researchers at research institutions in Europe and abroad. Researchers can apply for a MSCA “Individual Fellowship” if they have completed a doctoral degree or have evidence of four years of full-time research after completing their university studies. … Continued
Science Careers has teamed up with some great organizations to bring you information about the latest career opportunities in many different fields. The profiles included in this booklet give you a sense of the types of organizations that are accepting resumes and the kinds of positions they offer. There are also some articles with general tips and advice on job searching. … Continued
Due to the recent news and our university’s decisions we will not run any workshops in the old-fashioned way until September (if not decided otherwise). Of course, we will still be providing qualification offers for you by organizing online workshops. The first one will be taking place on May 15 (see below). If you have any suggestions for further workshop topics, … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Workshop ” From a Successful Job Application to the Job Interview” by Barbara Hoffbauer. This workshop is intended for those postdocs and late stage-PhD students who are already informed about various professional perspectives outside academia and have reflected their own suitability for different career paths. … Continued
You are a PhD student or postdoc and want to take your career into your own hands, but you don’t have a business idea, yet? Then this “Young Entrepreneurs in Science” workshop is for you! Entrepreneurial thinking does not start with a business plan or even a business idea. Rather, our approach is to ask: “What if you had to live off your PhD project/research project?“ Participants will receive insights into their innovative potential and new career and development perspectives. … Continued
In view of the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on research activities, the German Research Foundation (DFG) has extended the submission deadline for several of its current calls for proposals. Further deadline extensions will be introduced if necessary. Researchers can find regular updates at www.dfg.de/en/service/press/reports/2020/200318_corona_news/index.html … Continued
The European Commission has launched a website with information on the Corona pandemic. There you can find all changes to postponed deadlines as well as links to the continuously updated FAQs on the implementation and assessment of Horizon 2020 projects.
Göttingen University offers positions for female postdocs (TV-L 13, 100%, term of 2 years) again. Those eligible to apply are female postdocs from the Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Theology, Faculty of Economic Sciences and Faculty of Law as well as from the University Medical Center (UMG). If you like to apply, you have to be in an early postdoc phase, … Continued
Interdisciplinary research calls for communication and the right networks. With the program “Begegnungszonen”, the Joachim Herz Foundation supports events for young scientists. The goal is for them to learn new work processes and methodologies while forging new contacts. … Continued
The Einstein Forum and the Daimler and Benz Foundation are offering a fellowship for outstanding young thinkers who wish to pursue a project in a different field from that of their previous research. The purpose of the fellowship is to support those who, in addition to producing superb work in their area of specialization, are also open to other, … Continued
The next call for the Max-Eder Junior Research Group by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until May 26, 2020.
Aiming at highly qualified young oncologists (physicians during or after the specialist training as well as scientists with an explicit clinic-oriented orientation of the project), who are not older than 35 years on application, … Continued
The next call for the Mildred-Scheel-Postdoc Program by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until May 26, 2020.This postdoctoral funding scheme is providing young doctors and natural scientists the opportunity to carry out projects in clinically oriented oncological basic research or clinical cancer research at renowned institutions abroad. … Continued
Within the Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) the new call for “Individual Fellowships” (IF) was published. Applications are due by September 9, 2020 (17:00:00 CET).
The Individual Fellowships promote individual research projects of experienced researchers at research institutions in Europe and abroad. Researchers can apply for a MSCA “Individual Fellowship” if they have completed a doctoral degree or have evidence of four years of full-time research after completing their university studies. … Continued
… you might want to try something new and different. Some of you are usually working in labs and running experiments but right now most people are asked to work at home due to the corona crisis. However, as a kitchen is not a lab and the texts and proposals you were planning to write are perfectly finished by now, … Continued
Unfortunately, the University of Göttingen is not spared the consequences of the corona virus pandemic. As you all know a crisis management team has been set up and you will be informed about current developments on the University’s homepage (www.uni-goettingen.de/en/621808.html). In addition, you have been informed by e-mail about current developments and rules of conduct recently, … Continued
In view of the current situation we will have to cancel / postpone the following upcoming workshops:
The »Fraunhofer Attract« grant is the excellence stipend program of Fraunhofer. »Fraunhofer Attract« invites outstanding researchers to develop their ideas towards innovations at Fraunhofer.
An idea becomes an innovation, if it comes to use. The grant »Fraunhofer Attract« offers outstanding external scientists the opportunity to develop their ideas towards an actual application within an optimally equipped Fraunhofer institute operating close to the market. … Continued
Twice a year, CORNET issues Calls for Proposals for international Collective Research projects involving at least two different countries/regions. The calls follow a bottom-up approach: every topic that supports SMEs in their innovation efforts is welcome. … Continued
The Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 (IMI2) published a call for proposals (Call 21) for collaborative research projects on the new corona virus (COVID-2019), on possible therapies as well as on diagnostics.
Indicative budget:
Deadline for submission will be March 30, … Continued
Göttingen University offers positions for female postdocs (TV-L 13, 100%, term of 2 years) again. Those eligible to apply are female postdocs from the Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Theology, Faculty of Economic Sciences and Faculty of Law as well as from the University Medical Center (UMG). If you want to apply, you have to be in an early postdoc phase, … Continued
The Schering Stiftung and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation offer start-up grants to fund promising research ideas by young scientists. Support is provided for projects in the fields of biochemical, neuroscience or immunological basic research with biomedical implications. The program is explicitly aimed at highly motivated young investigators who want to start an independent career and pursue their own research ideas that differentiate from the research topic of the supervisor. … Continued
In cooperation with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) the DAAD gives highly qualified postdocs the possibility of a 1-6 month research stay at Japanese universities or research institutions.
The program is open for German postdocs (and those with a permanent residence permit for Germany) of all subjects. … Continued
The Minerva Short-Term Research Grant gives young German and Israeli scientists from all subjects the opportunity to visit research partners and to establish contacts with scientists in the respective guest country. Jointly funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), the grants also allow scientists to participate in seminars and workshops, … Continued
The Einstein Forum and the Daimler and Benz Foundation are offering a fellowship for outstanding young thinkers who wish to pursue a project in a different field from that of their previous research. The purpose of the fellowship is to support those who, in addition to producing superb work in their area of specialization, are also open to other, … Continued
The next call for the Mildred-Scheel-Postdoc Program by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until May 26, 2020.This postdoctoral funding scheme is providing young doctors and natural scientists the opportunity to carry out projects in clinically oriented oncological basic research or clinical cancer research at renowned institutions abroad. … Continued
The next call for the Max-Eder Junior Research Group by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until May 26, 2020.
Aiming at highly qualified young oncologists (physicians during or after the specialist training as well as scientists with an explicit clinic-oriented orientation of the project), who are not older than 35 years on application, … Continued
The Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds awards Travel Grants to junior researchers who are currently conducting an experimental project in basic biomedical research and wish to pursue a short-term research stay or attend a practical course of up to 3 months.
Applications may be submitted at any time, at least 6 weeks before the planned date of departure. … Continued
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). … Continued
The university’s family service together with Kindertagespflegebörse Göttingen offers two childcare programs during summer vacation for university employees’ children. The programs are designed for children aged 6-12. … Continued
Since 2018, there has been an initiative, namely Uni-Goettingen Unbefristet, which demands permanent contracts for all academic and administrative staff in Göttingen. You can get more information about the initiative at www.uni-goettingen-unbefristet.de/en/
Recently, they started establishing an English-speaking branch for international scholars on Göttingen Campus. … Continued
In cooperation with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) the DAAD gives highly qualified postdocs the possibility of a 1-6 month research stay at Japanese universities or research institutions.
The program is open for German postdocs (and those with a permanent residence permit for Germany) of all subjects. … Continued
Bristol-Myers Squibb is advertising trainee-ships at their site in Munich. … Continued
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). … Continued
Fulbright Germany is excited to be hosting its fourth Science Slam in Köln (Cologne) on May 18, 2020. Are you ready to dazzle an intercultural audience with your research? Then apply now!
For this enjoyable evening event, the organizers are looking for six young researchers – three each from Germany and the United States – who are currently based in Germany. … Continued
We are happy to announce our February workshop “A Career in Academia” by Dr. Neela Enke.
Am I suited for a career in academia? And what does it take to become a professor? Are there alternatives? These questions are crucial for scientists throughout their postdoc phase. This workshop gives an overview on how a career in academia can be achieved and which parameters are relevant for strategic career development in the (German) academic system. … Continued
We are happy to announce our March workshop “Grant Writing” by John Dixon.
This workshop is intended for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers who are new to the process of applying for a scientific research grant. Ideally, participants should already be in the process of applying for a grant or planning to start writing within the next 3 months. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next project management workshop “Fast Forward – The Ultimate Productivity System for Researchers” with Dr. Nadine Sinclair.
Achieve amazing productivity and reduce your stress levels in 7 weeks by implementing the productivity secrets that allows management consultants and high-performing industry teams to generate results quickly. … Continued
The GAUSS Career Service is happy to announce the next Career Impulse Session with Dr. Janina Boyken (Laboratory Head at Bayer AG): “Research from different perspectives”
Janina is an Alumni of GGNB and did her PhD in the lab of Reinhard Jahn at the MPI bpc in 2011 investigating the molecular composition of presynaptic docking sites. … Continued
We are happy to announce another Career Impulse Session with Management Consultant Dr. Daniel Reuß (Kearney): “Try something different – From the wet lab to management consulting”
Daniel will talk about how he successfully made the switch from academia to a leading management consulting firm. He will offer insights on the skill set you need to become a consultant and why Kearney is looking for new talents with a MINT background. … Continued
GGNB has some free slots available (for physicists) for the GGNB Industry Excursion to Coherent LaserSystems GmbH (Göttingen) on
Wednesday, March 11, 2020, 09:00-12:30h.
If you would like to take part, please send an e-mail to ggnb@gwdg.de by Sunday Feb 16 (first come, first served). … Continued
Everyone interested in scientific entrepreneurship is cordially invited to this event. How to turn your science into a business? This will be the pivotal point during the afternoon. The organizers will introduce you to support projects and ecosystems in Göttingen and inspire you with start-up stories. You will have the opportunity to meet people and get personal advice. … Continued
Entrepreneurial thinking does not start with a business plan or even a business idea. Rather, the approach is to ask: “What if you had to live off your PhD project/research project?“ Participants will receive insights into their innovative potential and new career and development perspectives. They will get to know state of the art methods like Design Thinking and be encouraged to recognize and contribute their already existing skills and potential to the program. … Continued
The mentoring program „WeWiMento“ will be starting again in 2020 providing encompassing insight into science management at Göttingen University. Participants will gain detailed information on practical working in this diverse professional field and will establish a new professional network. In course of the program they will be supported in deciding for or against a career in science management and in planning their next steps. … Continued
Annually the Körber Foundation is awarding the “Deutsche Studienpreis” for outstanding dissertations (magna or summa cum laude) in all disciplines.
In addition to scientific excellence a specific significance for the society is of particular importance. However, the focus is not necessarily lying on the economic exploitability but on the macrosocial benefit of scientific results. … Continued
Both prizes are biennially awarded to outstanding researchers with innovative ideas in the field of laser physics. Persons as well as research groups can be honored, either by applying or by being nominated. Submission deadline will be March 1, 2020. … Continued
The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) invites applications for its third call within computational life sciences. This supports the development of innovative methods and software instruments from bioinformatics, modelling and simulation for their use in life sciences. The focus topic of the third round is machine learning for cancer research. This aims to evaluate biomedical research data more efficiently to support research on underlying physiological and pathological processes of cancerous diseases by using novel software instruments. … Continued
The »Fraunhofer Attract« grant is the excellence stipend program of Fraunhofer. »Fraunhofer Attract« invites outstanding researchers to develop their ideas towards innovations at Fraunhofer.
An idea becomes an innovation, if it comes to use. The grant »Fraunhofer Attract« offers outstanding external scientists the opportunity to develop their ideas towards an actual application within an optimally equipped Fraunhofer institute operating close to the market. … Continued
Twice a year, CORNET issues Calls for Proposals for international Collective Research projects involving at least two different countries/regions. The calls follow a bottom-up approach: every topic that supports SMEs in their innovation efforts is welcome. … Continued
Göttingen University offers positions for female postdocs (TV-L 13, 100%, term of 2 years) again. Those eligible to apply are female postdocs from the Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Theology, Faculty of Economic Sciences and Faculty of Law as well as from the University Medical Center (UMG). If you want to apply, you have to be in an early postdoc phase, … Continued
We are happy to announce our February workshop “A Career in Academia” by Dr. Neela Enke.
Am I suited for a career in academia? And what does it take to become a professor? Are there alternatives? These questions are crucial for scientists throughout their postdoc phase. This workshop gives an overview on how a career in academia can be achieved and which parameters are relevant for strategic career development in the (German) academic system. … Continued
We are happy to announce our March workshop “Grant Writing” by John Dixon.
This workshop is intended for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers who are new to the process of applying for a scientific research grant. Ideally, participants should already be in the process of applying for a grant or planning to start writing within the next 3 months. … Continued
The GAUSS Career Service is happy to announce the next Career Impulse Session with Dr. Janina Boyken (Laboratory Head at Bayer Pharmaceuticals).
Date: Friday, Feb 28, 2020
Time: 14-16h
Location: GZMB, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11, seminar room 0.232
Further information on the session can soon be found on our Career Blog. … Continued
The next call for the Dorothea Schlözer Career Coaching is now open until January 31, 2020, starting in February 2020 for approximately 10 months.
If you are a female postdoctoral researcher on the Göttingen Campus apply for this program, which is designed to support young female researchers who aim at a leading position in science with intensive training and workshop offers. … Continued
Forschungsförderung & Karriereentwicklung in der Wissenschaft
Im deutschen und europäischen Wissenschaftssystem gewinnen eingeworbene Drittmittel eine immer größere Bedeutung sowohl für wissenschaftliche Einrichtungen und deren Fortbestand als auch für die individuelle Karriereentwicklung. Oft erfolgt solche Drittmitteleinwerbung allerdings ohne systematische strategische Planung und ohne die Potentiale und Ziele der beteiligten Forschenden in den Blick zu nehmen. … Continued
Gemeinsam mit Startup Niedersachsen, BioRegioN, Ottobock und Sartorius hat die Life Science Factory den Life Science Start-up Day ins Leben gerufen: Eine Konferenz, die sich zum Ziel gesetzt hat, die Life Science und Gründercommunity zum Austausch zusammenzubringen – mit einem Programm voller Unterstützungsangebote und inspirierender Persönlichkeiten. Auf der Hauptbühne präsentieren sich Impuls-Speaker und erfolgreiche GründerInnen, darunter … Continued
On Saturday, January 25, the 15th Career Fair International Organizations will be taking place at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin. Students and graduates are especially welcome to inform themselves about a possible future career in an international organization. … Continued
Als Abschlussveranstaltung des Fraunhofer AHEAD Acceleratorprogramms mit erstmaligem Life Science Track in Göttingen findet am 12. Februar 2020 ab 18.00 Uhr der Life Science Pitch Bowl im Veranstaltungshaus Alte Mensa in Göttingen statt. … Continued
Whereas most researchers enthusiastically focus on the content and international dimensions of their project proposals, drawing up a viable budget plan often takes the back seat, or neglected altogether. Calculating the budget in the days and hours just before a deadline can lead to a rejected project proposal or to an approved project lacking the means necessary to ensure its smooth administration or even its successful conclusion. … Continued
Entrepreneurial thinking does not start with a business plan or even a business idea. Rather, the approach is to ask: “What if you had to live off your PhD project/research project?“ Participants will receive insights into their innovative potential and new career and development perspectives. They will get to know state of the art methods like Design Thinking and be encouraged to recognize and contribute their already existing skills and potential to the program. … Continued
The mentoring program „WeWiMento“ will be starting again in 2020 providing encompassing insight into science management at Göttingen University. Participants will gain detailed information on practical working in this diverse professional field and will establish a new professional network. In course of the program they will be supported in deciding for or against a career in science management and in planning their next steps. … Continued
The Durham University announces the opening of the next set of Addison Wheeler Fellowships. The Fellowship is designed to attract the best early career researchers in the UK, Europe and beyond and across the full spectrum of science, social science, arts and humanities. Durham Fellows will help to build international networks of scholars with a common passion for today’s most important research challenges. … Continued
Since 2002 the DFG has annually awarded the Bernd Rendel Prize to early career geoscientists who do not hold a doctorate. These prizes, funded by proceeds from the Bernd Rendel Foundation which is managed by the Stifterverband, aim to enable prizewinners to attend international conferences and congresses or may be used for other scientific purposes. … Continued
The Hermann Neuhaus Prize recognizes excellent postdocs and research group leaders who are conducting research with the potential for application at a Max Planck Institute. It is awarded by the Max Planck Society (MPS) and funded by the Max Planck Foundation (MPF). The prize money is 25,000 euros (20,000 euros are earmarked for research funds, 5,000 euros are for the prize winner´s personal use). … Continued
Both prizes are biennially awarded to outstanding researchers with innovative ideas in the field of laser physics. Persons as well as research groups can be honored, either by applying or by being nominated. Submission deadline will be March 1, 2020. … Continued
Annually the Körber Foundation is awarding the “Deutsche Studienpreis” for outstanding dissertations (magna or summa cum laude) in all disciplines.
In addition to scientific excellence a specific significance for the society is of particular importance. However, the focus is not necessarily lying on the economic exploitability but on the macrosocial benefit of scientific results. … Continued
The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) invites applications for its third call within computational life sciences. This supports the development of innovative methods and software instruments from bioinformatics, modelling and simulation for their use in life sciences. The focus topic of the third round is machine learning for cancer research. This aims to evaluate biomedical research data more efficiently to support research on underlying physiological and pathological processes of cancerous diseases by using novel software instruments. … Continued
In cooperation with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) the DAAD gives highly qualified postdocs the possibility of a 1-6 month research stay at Japanese universities or research institutions.
The program is open for German postdocs (and those with a permanent residence permit for Germany) of all subjects. … Continued
Pfizer is hiring at their site in Freiburg (please see advert including link and the hiring manager below). … Continued
Hot Spot Therapeutics is hiring at their site in Berlin. They are currently looking for a data and strategy analyst. Here you can find the job advert. … Continued
In this lecture Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Stefan Hell from the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry will give personal insights in his experience.
The lecture takes place in the context of the Promotionskolleg and everyone who is interested is kindly invited. … Continued
Participants will learn simple and effective techniques for self-protection that will enable them to immediately defend themselves in an assault situation. For this purpose attendees will be taught punches, kicks, freeing oneself from an opponent’s hold and other defense techniques.
Another focus will lie on training verbal and physical behaviour patterns that can be used to counter any kind of unwelcome advances, … Continued
We are happy to announce our first GAUSS Career Service workshop in 2020 – “Exploring the Unknown – The Company World” by Dr. Gaby Schilling.
This workshop is for postdoctoral scientist 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. … Continued
We are happy to announce our February workshop “A Career in Academia” by Dr. Neela Enke.
Am I suited for a career in academia? And what does it take to become a professor? Are there alternatives? These questions are crucial for scientists throughout their postdoc phase. This workshop gives an overview on how a career in academia can be achieved and which parameters are relevant for strategic career development in the (German) academic system. … Continued
The Minerva Fellowship Program (funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research) enables Israeli and German scientists to complete a research residency at institutions in the respective other country. Minerva Fellowships are not only intended to promote research but also to strengthen the cultural and scientific exchange between Germany and Israel. Younger scientists (graduates and post docs) get the possibility to further their scientific background while they conduct a research project at their host institution in Israel or Germany. … Continued
The Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators was first established in 1995. It acknowledges outstanding contributions to biomedical research in Europe based on methods of molecular biology, including novel analytical concepts.
The Award is presented in partnership with the scientific journal Nature and the prize money is 20,000€. … Continued
Within cooperation of the University of Göttingen with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the International Office of the University of Göttingen is calling for applications for funding for the implementation of a scientific workshop in Göttingen in 2020. … Continued
ERC Consolidator Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or program. Applicant Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their scientific proposal. … Continued
The next call for the Max-Eder Junior Research Group by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until Feb 11, 2020.
Aiming at highly qualified young oncologists (physicians during or after the specialist training as well as scientists with an explicit clinic-oriented orientation of the project), who are not older than 35 years on application, … Continued
The next call for the Mildred-Scheel-Postdoc Program by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until Feb 11, 2020.This postdoctoral funding scheme is providing young doctors and natural scientists the opportunity to carry out projects in clinically oriented oncological basic research or clinical cancer research at renowned institutions abroad. … Continued
The Hermann Neuhaus Prize recognizes excellent postdocs and research group leaders who are conducting research with the potential for application at a Max Planck Institute. It is awarded by the Max Planck Society (MPS) and funded by the Max Planck Foundation (MPF). The prize money is 25,000 euros (20,000 euros are earmarked for research funds, 5,000 euros are for the prize winner´s personal use). … Continued
Since 2002 the DFG has annually awarded the Bernd Rendel Prize to early career geoscientists who do not hold a doctorate. These prizes, funded by proceeds from the Bernd Rendel Foundation which is managed by the Stifterverband, aim to enable prizewinners to attend international conferences and congresses or may be used for other scientific purposes. … Continued
Annually the Körber Foundation is awarding the “Deutsche Studienpreis” for outstanding dissertations (magna or summa cum laude) in all disciplines.
In addition to scientific excellence a specific significance for the society is of particular importance. However, the focus is not necessarily lying on the economic exploitability but on the macrosocial benefit of scientific results. … Continued
The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) invites applications for its third call within computational life sciences. This supports the development of innovative methods and software instruments from bioinformatics, modelling and simulation for their use in life sciences. The focus topic of the third round is machine learning for cancer research. This aims to evaluate biomedical research data more efficiently to support research on underlying physiological and pathological processes of cancerous diseases by using novel software instruments. … Continued
In July 2019 the DFG has launched a new Postdoc Funding Scheme – the Walter Benjamin Program enabling researchers in the postdoctoral training phase to independently conduct their own research project at a location of their choice for 2 years. … Continued
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). … Continued
On September 13 we hosted a Career Impulse Session with our Alumnus Dr. Florian Hauer, co-funder of the start-up Labforward (previously labfolder) based in Berlin. He gave an enthusiastic and very transparent talk on how it is to head a start-up and to work for one. If you are interested in joining a vibrant and exciting environment, … Continued
Hot Spot Therapeutics is hiring at their site in Berlin. They are currently looking for a data and strategy analyst. Here you can find the job advert. … Continued
Decision of the Presidential Board on Nov 19, 2019
During recent months, buildings of the University of Göttingen have repeatedly been vandalised with swastikas and other extreme right-wing, racist, anti-Semitic, and transphobic symbols and slogans. Some of these graffiti involved explicit threats and insults levelled at individual staff, students and associates as well as individual institutions of the University. … Continued
Participants will learn simple and effective techniques for self-protection that will enable them to immediately defend themselves in an assault situation. For this purpose attendees will be taught punches, kicks, freeing oneself from an opponent’s hold and other defense techniques.
Another focus will lie on training verbal and physical behaviour patterns that can be used to counter any kind of unwelcome advances, … Continued
Dear GAUSS Postdocs and PhD Students,
As many of you might already know, I am going to have a baby at the beginning of next year. Not as planned, I have to go on maternity leave earlier than expected and I just finished the handover to my two great colleagues, Vera Bissinger and Britta Korkowsky, who will cover my post over the next year until I am coming back in January 2021. … Continued
We are happy to announce our last GAUSS Career Service workshop in 2019 “Conflict Management” by Dr Neela Enke.
The ability to deal with conflicts is a key component of professional conduct and an important factor for personal and professional success. The workshop enables the participants to experience conflict as agent of innovation, … Continued
We are happy to announce our first GAUSS Career Service workshop in 2020 – “Exploring the Unknown – The Company World” by Dr. Gaby Schilling.
This workshop is for postdoctoral scientist 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. … Continued
The University of Göttingen is offering a mentoring program for female doctoral and postdoctoral researchers at Göttingen Campus, designed to accompany young female researchers through this phase of their development. … Continued
Göttingen University’s start-up support again runs an attractive program this semester. PhD students and postdocs are esp. welcome to join the workshops. For more information see www.uni-goettingen.de/en/560351.html … Continued
In July 2019 the DFG has launched a new Postdoc Funding Scheme – the Walter Benjamin Program enabling researchers in the postdoctoral training phase to independently conduct their own research project at a location of their choice for 2 years. … Continued
The Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators was first established in 1995. It acknowledges outstanding contributions to biomedical research in Europe based on methods of molecular biology, including novel analytical concepts.
The Award is presented in partnership with the scientific journal Nature and the prize money is 20,000€. … Continued
ERC Consolidator Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or program. Applicant Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their scientific proposal. … Continued
The next call for the Max-Eder Junior Research Group by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until Feb 11, 2020.
Aiming at highly qualified young oncologists (physicians during or after the specialist training as well as scientists with an explicit clinic-oriented orientation of the project), who are not older than 35 years on application, … Continued
The next call for the Mildred-Scheel-Postdoc Program by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until Feb 11, 2020.This postdoctoral funding scheme is providing young doctors and natural scientists the opportunity to carry out projects in clinically oriented oncological basic research or clinical cancer research at renowned institutions abroad. … Continued
Since 2002 the DFG has annually awarded the Bernd Rendel Prize to early career geoscientists who do not hold a doctorate. These prizes, funded by proceeds from the Bernd Rendel Foundation which is managed by the Stifterverband, aim to enable prizewinners to attend international conferences and congresses or may be used for other scientific purposes. … Continued
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). … Continued
Hot Spot Therapeutics is hiring at their site in Berlin. They are currently looking for a data and strategy analyst. Here you can find the job advert.
… Continued
Evotec is hiring at their site in Göttingen.
Several of our Alumni are working there and if you want to make contact, please email the GAUSS Career Service Office (career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de).
On 13 September we hosted a Career Impulse Session with our Alumnus Dr Florian Hauer, co-funder of the start-up Labforward (previously labfolder) based in Berlin. He gave an enthusiastic and very transparent talk on how it is to head a start-up and to work for one. If you are interested in joining a vibrant and exciting environment, … Continued
We would like to draw your attention to the biennial international conference “Third Infinity 2020 conference on physics out-of-equilibrium” focused on the Physics of Biological and Complex Systems. The conference will take place on Feb 24-26, 2020 on the Max Planck Campus (Am Faßberg) in Göttingen and it is a great opportunity to listen to experts in the field and if you like to present your own work. … Continued
The WoCaNet 2019 Team and the GGNB Team would like to invite all postdocs and PhD students to join the organization team for the next Women’s Careers and Networks symposium (WoCaNet) taking place in spring 2021. … Continued
The GAUSS Career Service is happy to announce the next Career Impulse Session with Project Manager in Operational Excellence Dr Moritz Hermann (Thermo Fisher Scientific): “From handling research collaborations to managing industry projects”.
Moritz will talk about how career sessions, (soft) skill courses and scientific collaborations during his PhD helped him to draft his own career path. … Continued
We are happy to announce our last GAUSS Career Service workshop in 2019 “Conflict Management” by Dr Neela Enke.
The ability to deal with conflicts is a key component of professional conduct and an important factor for personal and professional success. The workshop enables the participants to experience conflict as agent of innovation, professional and personal development. … Continued
The Department of Cooperation and Innovation in close cooperation with the four Graduate Schools (GAUSS, GFA, GGG, GSGG) has launched the next round of the mentoring program “KaWirMento – Career Paths into the Business Sector”. The call will close on the 15 November 2019 – … Continued
SNIC (Südniedersachsen Innovation Campus) is organising over the next couple of months several industry excursions to local companies and all students, doctoral students and Postdocs are welcome to join these events, which are all held in German only.
Please see below for the upcoming ones including detailed description in German and don’t forget to register via the links provided below. … Continued
The Göttingen Campus is organising the 3rd “Postdoc Support and Information Fair“ on Thursday, 24 October 2019, 3-5 pm at the “Zentrales Hörsaal Gebäude ZHG”, between lecture halls 007 and 011, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5, 37077 Göttingen. Come and go as you please during the afternoon to share a coffee and dip in and out of the different stalls. … Continued
If you are a young and experienced professional interested in building a career in the UN system, then the free webinar “How To Write a Cover Letter for the United Nations” is for you. It is designed to help you understand how to create a cover letter that will complement your application and present you as strong candidates for jobs within the Organisation. … Continued
The GWDG is organising several Courses for High Performance Scientific Computing and you are welcome to sign up and join these courses. The following are currently offered:
Use potentials! – for natural and engineering scientists as well as physicians (2 days) organised by the German Higher Education Organisation (Deutscher Hochschulverband, DHV). ONLY IN GERMAN.
In July 2019 the DFG has launched a new Postdoc Funding Scheme – the Walter Benjamin Programme enabling researchers in the postdoctoral training phase to independently conduct their own research project at a location of their choice for 2 years. … Continued
The next call for the Max-Eder Junior Reserach Group by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until 27 November 2019.
Aiming at highly qualified young oncologists (physicians during or after the specialist training as well as scientists with an explicit clinic-oriented orientation of the project), who are not older than 35 years on application, … Continued
The next call for the Mildred-Scheel-Postdoc Program by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until 27 Nov 2019.
This postdoctoral funding scheme is providing young doctors and natural scientists the opportunity to carry out projects in clinically oriented oncological basic research or clinical cancer research at renowned institutions abroad.
The funding scheme at a glance:
Grant Application Course – Enhance your career prospects in academia (16-17 January 2020 – Science Park Amsterdam)
Are you a PhD student, postdoc or starting group leader and do you want to enhance your career prospects in academia? Do you wish to improve one of the most vital skills of succeeding in science?
Then join the BCF Grant Application Course on how to write a successful grant application. … Continued
Are you searching for an interesting Postdoc Position here in Göttingen? Then check out this job posting by Prof Thomas Dresbach from the UMG.
The position is in the Synaptogenesis group of the Institute of Anatomy and Embryology starting from 01.01.2020. We investigate how cell adhesion molecules contribute to synapse maturation. … Continued
Currently there are various opportunities for positions in science management at different places available. Check out the opportunites below with links to the job adverts!
Referent/in for Research (Research Department)
On 13 September we hosted a Career Impulse Session with our Alumnus Dr Florian Hauer, co-funder of the start-up Labforward (previously labfolder) based in Berlin. He gave an enthusiastic and very transparent talk on how it is to head a start-up and to work for one. If you are interested in joining a vibrant and exciting environment, … Continued
Evotec is hiring at their site in Göttingen and there are a couple of intersting job adverts, which although we posted them in our last newsletter are still available.
Several of our Alumni are working there and if you want to make contact, please email the GAUSS Career Service Office (career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de). … Continued
On 26 October 2019 the event “WISSENSWERT – Science goes City” will take place from 10 am onwards in the Göttinge City Center.
Meet the seven deadly sins at Thalia? The heart and brain thinking together? Asking our scientists anything you like at the Gänseliesel? Find out what love smells like in a perfumery? … Continued
This year’s call for the Volkswagen Foundation Freigeist Fellowships is open until 10 October 2019.
The initiative focuses on early-career researchers from all disciplines. The aim of the Foundation is to facilitate the implementation of extraordinary research projects and to make a substantial contribution to the establishment of dependable career paths for the upcoming generation of researchers. … Continued
The next call for the ERC Starting grant is now open closing on the 16 October 2019 at 17h Brussels Time.
Please see belowfor further details on eligibilty criteria as well as a short profile of the funding scheme. … Continued
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.” ERC funding allows researchers a lot of flexibility to pursue new directions in any research field. Researchers at career stage 7 to 12 years after PhD are eligible to apply for an ERC Consolidator Grant, … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshop “Job Hunting and Application Skill” by Gaby Schilling.
Target group: Postdoctoral scientist and late-stage PhD students who are currently applying or planning to apply for a position in industry or other areas outside academia.
Goal: Becoming familiar with all steps involved in the application process. … Continued
The Clausthal University of Technology (Clausthal-Zellerfeld) has currently an open position for a science manager in the area of science and transfer with an application deadline on 27 September 2019. … Continued
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! … Continued
Grant Application Course – Enhance your career prospects in academia (16-17 January 2020 – Science Park Amsterdam)
Are you a PhD student, postdoc or starting group leader and do you want to enhance your career prospects in academia? Do you wish to improve one of the most vital skills of succeeding in science?
Then join the BCF Grant Application Course on how to write a successful grant application. … Continued
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). … Continued
Use potentials! – for natural and engineering scientists as well as physicians (2 days) organised by the German Higher Education Organisation (Deutscher Hochschulverband, DHV). ONLY IN GERMAN.
Evotec is hiring at their site in Göttingen and there are a couple of intersting job adverts.
Several of our Alumni are working there and if you want to make contact, please email the GAUSS Career Service Office (career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de).
The N2 Event 2019 unites selected leading scientists from academic research and industry with excellent doctoral researchers from various research fields of N2 – the biggest association of doctoral researchers in Germany. In this interdisciplinary atmosphere we will have presentations, workshops and open discussions about the role of basic research and how it can contribute to and translate into commercial interest. … Continued
On 13 September we hosted a Career Impulse Session with our Alumnus Dr Florian Hauer, co-funder of the start-up Labforward (previously labfolder) based in Berlin. He gave an enthusiastic and very transparent talk on how it is to head a start-up and to work for one. If you are interested in joining a vibrant and exciting environment, … Continued
The GAUSS Career Service is happy to announce the next Career Impulse Session with Project Manager in Operational Excellence Dr Moritz Hermann (Thermo Fisher Scientific): “From handling research collaborations to managing industry projects”.
Moritz will talk about how career sessions, (soft) skill courses and scientific collaborations during his PhD helped him to draft his own career path. … Continued
The Fraunhofer Attract grant is the excellence stipend programme of Fraunhofer inviting outstanding researchers to develop their ideas towards innovations at Fraunhofer. The call will close on 1 October 2019 with a start date of the grant in December 2019.
An idea becomes an innovation, if it comes to use. This grant offers outstanding external scientists the opportunity to develop their ideas towards an actual application within an optimally equipped Fraunhofer institute operating close to the market. … Continued
Every year, the Daimler and Benz Foundation awards ten scholarships to exceptional postdoctoral students, assistant professors, and young managers of new research projects. Our goal is to support the autonomy and creativity of our next generation of academics and to help committed researchers as they begin their postdoctoral academic careers. … Continued
Bristol-Myers Squibb has currently different trainee programs on offer to join the company at their site in Munich. Application deadlines for both are 30 September 2019. Please see below for the PDFs of the job adverts provided by one of our Alumni. Applications are only possible via their partner Provadis. … Continued
For a project re-defining data qualit yassessment in single-crystal diffraction, the Thorn Group at the Rudolf Virchow Center for Experimental Biomedicine of the University of Würzburg is searching for a Postdoctoral Researcher.
Application deadline is the 31 August 2019. For further details please check out the job advert here. … Continued
Bristol-Myers Squibb has currently different trainee programs on offer to join the company at their site in Munich. Application deadlines for both are 30 September 2019. Please see below for the PDFs of the job adverts provided by one of our Alumni. Applications are only possible via their partner Provadis. … Continued
Evotec is hiring at their site in Göttingen and there are a couple of intersting job adverts.
Several of our Alumni are working there and if you want to make contact, please email the GAUSS Career Service Office (career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de).
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). … Continued
The Max Planck Instiute for Biophysical Chemistry (Göttingen) has currently an open positions for a science manager in the area of science communication with application deadline on 31 August 2019. … Continued
3Brain is currently looking for a Sales Area Manager in Germany, who can speak German and has experience in electrophysiology.
Check out the job advert here: http://www.3brain.com/websites/3brain/openpositions/2019-06_SalesAreaManager.pdf
3Brain is the world’s first company to design and produce high-resolution microelectrode arrays (HD-MEAs) … Continued
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. … Continued
Associate Professor Alexander G. Marneros at the Harvard Medical School has currently postdoc openings available in his laboratory in Boston.
Alexander himself is from Germany trained in Cologne and he would like to provide this opportunity to applicants from Germany as well.
So take your chance and check out the following job advert – … Continued
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). … Continued
The next call for the Mildred-Scheel-Postdoc Program by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until 4 September 2019.
This postdoctoral funding scheme is providing young doctors and natural scientists the opportunity to carry out projects in clinically oriented oncological basic research or clinical cancer research at renowned institutions abroad.
The funding scheme at a glance:
Last year the Yale Neuroscience Department started the program SYNAPSES, Seminars at Yale Neuroscience: Advanced PoStdoc Extramural Series.
It is a seminar series that gives postdocs an opportunity to give a seminar at an another institution and meet with both faculty and other postdocs. If accpeted the travel and accommodation costs will be covered. … Continued
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. … Continued
Every year, the Daimler and Benz Foundation awards ten scholarships to exceptional postdoctoral students, assistant professors, and young managers of new research projects. Our goal is to support the autonomy and creativity of our next generation of academics and to help committed researchers as they begin their postdoctoral academic careers. … Continued
The Fraunhofer Attract grant is the excellence stipend programme of Fraunhofer inviting outstanding researchers to develop their ideas towards innovations at Fraunhofer. The call will close on 1 October 2019 with a start date of the grant in December 2019.
An idea becomes an innovation, if it comes to use. This grant offers outstanding external scientists the opportunity to develop their ideas towards an actual application within an optimally equipped Fraunhofer institute operating close to the market. … Continued
This year’s call for the Volkswagen Foundation Freigeist Fellowships is open until 10 October 2019.
The initiative focuses on early-career researchers from all disciplines. The aim of the Foundation is to facilitate the implementation of extraordinary research projects and to make a substantial contribution to the establishment of dependable career paths for the upcoming generation of researchers. … Continued
The next call for the ERC Starting grant is now open closing on the 16 October 2019 at 17h Brussels Time.
Please see belowfor further details on eligibilty criteria as well as a short profile of the funding scheme. … Continued
Grant Application Course – Enhance your career prospects in academia (16-17 January 2020 – Science Park Amsterdam)
Are you a PhD student, postdoc or starting group leader and do you want to enhance your career prospects in academia? Do you wish to improve one of the most vital skills of succeeding in science?
Then join the BCF Grant Application Course on how to write a successful grant application. … Continued
The GAUSS Career Service is happy to announce the next Career Impulse Session titled “How to pursue a competitive academic career in a new scientific environment” with Dr. Camilo Aponte (Bogotá, Colombia / Heidelberg, Germany).
Camilo Aponte-Santamaría grew up and studied physics in Bogotá, Colombia. He obtained his PhD in 2011, … Continued
This workshop helps postdoctoral scientists and late-stage PhD students who are considering to apply for research funding to improve their grant writing skills, learn how to structure and write a successful grant application and how to choose the right funding call.
Dates: Monday and Tuesday, 9-10 September 2019
Duration: 2 days, 9:00-16:30h
Location: GZMB, … Continued
The GAUSS Career Service is happy to announce the next Career Impulse Session titled “From Science to Start-up – founding a business as a researcher” with Dr. Florian Hauer, Co-Founder & CPO of Labforward.
Florian Hauer is an Alumnus of the Molecular Biology IMPRS and did his PhD in the lab of Holger Stark at the MPIbpc in 2009. … Continued
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! … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshop “Job Hunting and Application Skill” by Gaby Schilling.
Target group: Postdoctoral scientist and late-stage PhD students who are currently applying or planning to apply for a position in industry or other areas outside academia.
Goal: Becoming familiar with all steps involved in the application process. … Continued
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. … Continued
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? … Continued
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. … Continued
The GAUSS Career Service is happy to announce the next Career Impulse Session titled “How to pursue a competitive academic career in a new scientific environment” with Dr. Camilo Aponte (Bogotá, Colombia / Heidelberg, Germany).
Camilo Aponte-Santamaría grew up and studied physics in Bogotá, Colombia. He obtained his PhD in 2011, … Continued
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! … Continued
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. … Continued
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). … Continued
The next call for the Mildred-Scheel-Postdoc Program by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until 4 September 2019.
This postdoctoral funding scheme is providing young doctors and natural scientists the opportunity to carry out projects in clinically oriented oncological basic research or clinical cancer research at renowned institutions abroad.
The funding scheme at a glance:
The next call for the Max-Eder Junior Reserach Group by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until 4 September 2019.
Aiming at highly qualified young oncologists (physicians during or after the specialist training as well as scientists with an explicit clinic-oriented orientation of the project), who are not older than 35 years on application, … Continued
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. … Continued
Every year, the Daimler and Benz Foundation awards ten scholarships to exceptional postdoctoral students, assistant professors, and young managers of new research projects. Our goal is to support the autonomy and creativity of our next generation of academics and to help committed researchers as they begin their postdoctoral academic careers. … Continued
The Fraunhofer Attract grant is the excellence stipend programme of Fraunhofer inviting outstanding researchers to develop their ideas towards innovations at Fraunhofer. The call will close on 1 October 2019 with a start date of the grant in December 2019.
An idea becomes an innovation, if it comes to use. This grant offers outstanding external scientists the opportunity to develop their ideas towards an actual application within an optimally equipped Fraunhofer institute operating close to the market. … Continued
This year’s call for the Volkswagen Foundation Freigeist Fellowships is open until 10 October 2019.
The initiative focuses on early-career researchers from all disciplines. The aim of the Foundation is to facilitate the implementation of extraordinary research projects and to make a substantial contribution to the establishment of dependable career paths for the upcoming generation of researchers. … Continued
Grant Application Course – Enhance your career prospects in academia (16-17 January 2020 – Science Park Amsterdam)
Are you a PhD student, postdoc or starting group leader and do you want to enhance your career prospects in academia? Do you wish to improve one of the most vital skills of succeeding in science?
Then join the BCF Grant Application Course on how to write a successful grant application. … Continued
Associate Professor Alexander G. Marneros at the Harvard Medical School has currently postdoc openings available in his laboratory in Boston.
Alexander himself is from Germany trained in Cologne and he would like to provide this opportunity to applicants from Germany as well.
So take your chance and check out the following job advert – … Continued
3Brain is currently looking for a Sales Area Manager in Germany, who can speak German and has experience in electrophysiology.
Check out the job advert here: http://www.3brain.com/websites/3brain/openpositions/2019-06_SalesAreaManager.pdf
3Brain is the world’s first company to design and produce high-resolution microelectrode arrays (HD-MEAs) … Continued
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). … Continued
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 promoting junior scientists
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. … Continued
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 … Continued
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, … Continued
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. … Continued
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? … Continued
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. … Continued
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. … Continued
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, … Continued
You are a postdoc 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! … Continued
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. … Continued
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. … Continued
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, … Continued
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, … Continued
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. … Continued
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. … Continued
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). … Continued
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. … Continued
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? … Continued
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
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. … Continued
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.
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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). … Continued
The Superti-Furga lab at the Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Science (CeMM) is currently looking for a highly motivated Lab Manager (m/f/x) with excellent organizational skills, implementation strength and communication talent. This versatile role is perfectly suitable for a scientist with professional experience in academia or industry who has got profound knowledge in lab organization and administration, … Continued
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). … Continued
Bayer is currently looking for candidates to fill the position as Alliance Manager Regulatory Affairs. This is an entry position and one of the rare opportunities at the moment, which are advertised externally. So take your chance and submit your application!
Details on the job posting are available below or here via the webpage. … Continued
The next call for the Mildred-Scheel-Postdoc Program by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until 18 September 2018.
This postdoctoral funding scheme is providing young doctors and natural scientists the opportunity to carry out projects in clinically oriented oncological basic research or clinical cancer research at renowned institutions abroad. … Continued
The Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology is an international research prize of US$25,000. Since 2002 it has been awarded annually to one young scientist who is not older than 35 years for the most outstanding neurobiological research based on methods of molecular and cell biology.
Eppendorf and Science/AAAS established this international prize in 2002 and acknowledges the increasing importance of Neurobiology research in advancing our understanding of how the brain and nervous system function – … Continued
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 Foudnation 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. … Continued
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. … Continued
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. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshop “Conflict Management” by Dr. Neela Enke.
The ability to deal with conflicts is a key component of professional conduct and an important factor for personal and professional success. The workshop enables the participants to experience conflict as agent of innovation, … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshop “Networking in Science” by Dr. Silke Oehrlein-Karpi.
Networking is the most effective career building method! It works by developing relationships and talking with people who can support you to explore career options and goals. Studies show that 70% to 90% of satisfying positions inside and outside of academia are found through proper self-promotion and networking. … Continued
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? … Continued
Each year several thousand highly educated and highly motivated graduates leave the University of Göttingen. The job and career fair “PraxisBörse” is the ideal environment to get to know company representatives and young professionals.
On two consecutive days on the North Campus (21 May, 11-17h) and Central Campus (22 May, 11-17h) you have the opportunity to talk about entry level positions and career opportunities. … Continued
You are interested in quantitative work? You like to script, program or model things? Maybe you just always wanted to know what working in consulting is like? Get the chance to talk to alumni of the MPI-ds who now work at the Frankfurt-based IT-consultancy d-fine.
The Max Planck PhDnet is organising an Alumni career talk d-fine on 28 May 2019 at 4:15-5:00 pm (+ open discussions afterwards) at the MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, … Continued
The BioBusiness Summer School offers PhD students and Postdocs with a background in Life Sciences who are considering a career outside of academia the chance to support their career orientation in industry and to increase their understanding of business aspects of Life Sciences.
The interactive five-day programme covers basics of the main business topics, … Continued
If you are interested in Science Management but are not sure if this career path is something for you, participate in this half-day workshop on 17 June 2019 9-13h.
This workshop will be held in German by Dr Anna Beck and Dr Sabine Heerwart. For further information please see below and check out this link. … Continued
Whereas most researchers tend to focus on the content and international dimensions of their project proposals with enthusiasm, working out a viable budget often takes a back seat or is neglected altogether. Calculating the budget in the days and hours just before the deadline can lead to a proposal being rejected or to an approved project lacking the means necessary to ensure its smooth administration or even its successfulness. … Continued
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. … Continued
The Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg is the largest university in Northern Bavaria and one of the most innovative universities in Germany. Its research activities require efficient administration and they are currently advertising a position for an EU Referent at the Department for Third-party Funding and Legal Affairs (Pay group E 13 TV-L, full-time). In this position you will advise and support scientists from the application stage through project implementation to final audits of EU-funded projects. … Continued
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! … Continued
The Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research (MPIPZ) invites applications for a Departmental Scientific Coordinator. The closing date of this job advert is the 31 May 2019.
The successful applicant will work closely with the Director of the department to assist in a variety of tasks associated with the science of the department. … Continued
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. … Continued
The next call for the Max-Eder Junior Reserach Group by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until 4 December 2018.
Aiming at highly qualified young oncologists (physicians during or after the specialist training as well as scientists with an explicit clinic-oriented orientation of the project), who are not older than 35 years on application, … Continued
Since January 2018 the UMG coordinates the Eurolife Network and is currently inviting applications for the next Eurolife Summer School 2019 in Dublin: Biology of Brain Disorders (BBD) 2019: Frontiers in Innovation.
Eurolife will fund 9 grants to students from Eurolife institutions (Please note that the grants cover the registration to the event only. … Continued
The next call for the Mildred-Scheel-Postdoc Program by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until 18 September 2018.
This postdoctoral funding scheme is providing young doctors and natural scientists the opportunity to carry out projects in clinically oriented oncological basic research or clinical cancer research at renowned institutions abroad. … Continued
Since January 2018 the UMG coordinates the Eurolife Network and is currently inviting applications for the Eurolife Summer School 2019 in Leiden: Immune modulation in human and animal infections: impact on health, disease and therapy.
Eurolife will fund 9 grants to students from Eurolife institutions (Please note that the grants cover the registration to the event only. … Continued
The prestigious Fellowship scheme is offered by the Durham University via its Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) and the University is keen that the Fellowship programme should attract the most distinguished scholars from around the world.
Launched in October 2006 to mark the 175th anniversary of the foundation of the University, the IAS is one of the University’s flagship research institutes. … Continued
If you are interested in Science Management but are not sure if this career path is something for you, participate in this half-day workshop on 17 June 2019 9-13h.
This workshop will be held in German by Dr Anna Beck and Dr Sabine Heerwart. For further information please see below and check out this link. … Continued
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 Foudnation 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. … Continued
The Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology is an international research prize of US$25,000. Since 2002 it has been awarded annually to one young scientist who is not older than 35 years for the most outstanding neurobiological research based on methods of molecular and cell biology.
Eppendorf and Science/AAAS established this international prize in 2002 and acknowledges the increasing importance of Neurobiology research in advancing our understanding of how the brain and nervous system function – … Continued
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! … Continued
Bayer is currently looking for candidates to fill the permanent position as Regulatory CMC Manager. This is an entry position and one of the rare opportunities at the moment, which are advertised externally. So take your chance and submit your application!
Details on the job posting are available below or here via the webpage. … Continued
Bayer is currently looking for candidates to fill the position as Alliance Manager Regulatory Affairs. This is an entry position and one of the rare opportunities at the moment, which are advertised externally. So take your chance and submit your application!
Details on the job posting are available below or here via the webpage. … Continued
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). … Continued
Check out this job opportunity at CERN – they are looking for an Open Science Manager! See details below and here.
Do you want to shape the future of Open Science in particle physics? CERN, take part! In CERN’s Research and Computing Sector (RCS), Scientific Information Service Group (SIS), … Continued
The GAUSS Career Service is happy to announce our next Career Impulse Session titled “What to expect from a job in a pharmaceutical research organization and how to get one” with Dr. Manuel Landesfeind from Evotec.
Manuel studied Computer Science in Göttingen having Biology as “area of application” and did a PhD in Bioinformatics at the Department of Bioinformatics (Prof. … Continued
We are happy to announce the return of our very successful and well-received project management workshop “Fast Forward – The Ultimate Productivity System for Researchers” with Dr. Nadine Sinclair.
This workshop starting on 13 May 2019 has a very special format as it is an online workshop running for 7 weeks including:
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshop “Conflict Management” by Dr. Neela Enke.
The ability to deal with conflicts is a key component of professional conduct and an important factor for personal and professional success. The workshop enables the participants to experience conflict as agent of innovation, … Continued
Participants will learn simple and effective techniques for self-protection that will enable them to immediately defend themselves in an assault situation. For this purpose attendees will be taught punches, kicks, freeing oneself from an opponent’s hold and other defense techniques.
Another focus will lie on training verbal and physical behaviour patterns that can be used to counter any kind of unwelcome advances, … Continued
In cooperation with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) the DAAD gives highly qualified Postdocs the possibility of a 1-6 month research stay at Japanese universities or research institutions.
The programme is open for German Postdocs (and those with a permanent residence permit for Germany) of all subjects.
Application deadline for the next funding period (start between 01 Oct 2019 and 31 Dec 2019) will be: 30 April 2019
For more information go to this webpage (unfortunately the instruction there are only available in German). … Continued
On behalf of Prof Matthias Dobbelstein, the speaker of the DFG Clinician Scientist Kolleg “Cell Dynamics in Pathogenesis and Therapy“ (Zelldynamik in Pathogenese und Therapie) based at the UMG, we are happy to announce the current call for this program, … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshop “Job Hunting and Application Skills” by Dr. Gaby Schilling.
The target group for this workshop are postdoctoral scientists and late-stage PhD students who are currently applying or planning to apply for a position in industry or other areas outside academia. … Continued
The GAUSS Career Service is happy to announce our next Career Impulse Session titled “What to expect from a job in a pharmaceutical research organization and how to get one” with Dr. Manuel Landesfeind from Evotec.
Manuel studied Computer Science in Göttingen having Biology as “area of application” and did a PhD in Bioinformatics at the Department of Bioinformatics (Prof. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshop “Conflict Management” by Dr. Neela Enke.
The ability to deal with conflicts is a key component of professional conduct and an important factor for personal and professional success. The workshop enables the participants to experience conflict as agent of innovation, … Continued
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!
The next jobvector career day will take place in Frankfurt on 27 March 2019. … Continued
Göttingen Campus is organising the 2nd “Postdoc Support and Information Fair“ on 4 April 3-5pm at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research. Come and go as you please during the afternoon to share a coffee and dip in and out of the different stalls. … Continued
The next Brown Bag Lunch Talk organised by the Göttingen Campus is coming up on 10 April 2019, 12-13h. The topic will be the “Göttingen Campus Postdoc Network” presented by Camille Couralet and Melissa Sollich. The Göttingen Campus Postdoc Network is run by and for postdoctoral researchers of the Göttingen Campus. … Continued
The University of Bremen opened the call for a funding scheme especially interesting for young scientists who have just completed their doctorate but also for advanced postdocs candidates with the career goal professorship. For further details please see below or via this link. Applications are considered until the deadline on 1 April 2019. … Continued
The Fraunhofer Attract grant is the excellence stipend programme of Fraunhofer inviting outstanding researchers to develop their ideas towards innovations at Fraunhofer. The call will close on 9 April 2019.
An idea becomes an innovation, if it comes to use. This grant offers outstanding external scientists the opportunity to develop their ideas towards an actual application within an optimally equipped Fraunhofer institute operating close to the market. … Continued
In cooperation with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) the DAAD gives highly qualified Postdocs the possibility of a 1-6 month research stay at Japanese universities or research institutions.
The programme is open for German Postdocs (and those with a permanent residence permit for Germany) of all subjects.
Application deadline for the next funding period (start between 01 Oct 2019 and 31 Dec 2019) will be: 30 April 2019
For more information go to this webpage (unfortunately the instruction there are only available in German). … Continued
The next call for the Mildred-Scheel-Postdoc Program by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until 18 September 2018.
This postdoctoral funding scheme is providing young doctors and natural scientists the opportunity to carry out projects in clinically oriented oncological basic research or clinical cancer research at renowned institutions abroad. … Continued
The next call for the Max-Eder Junior Reserach Group by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until 4 December 2018.
Aiming at highly qualified young oncologists (physicians during or after the specialist training as well as scientists with an explicit clinic-oriented orientation of the project), who are not older than 35 years on application, … Continued
The GAUSS Coordinator position is vacant and we are aiming to fill this post as soon as possible.
For details please check out the information below as well as this link (only in German) and apply by 15 March 2019 and se … Continued
Evotec is currently recruiting for a permanent position as Bioinformatic Scientist in Göttingen. The candidate with a background in either biology or informatics should have a keen interest in applying state of the art bioinformatics to target ID and drug discovery. Check out the job advert for this position here. … Continued
The EU recently replaced its well-established “Participant Portal” with the “Funding & Tenders Opportunities Portal” as the entry point for participants and experts to EU-funding programmes. In this workshop, research advisors from the EU Office, Lisa Grow, Claudia Sültmann and Christian Schöpper, will demonstrate how to do the following:
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. … Continued
Annually the Körber Foundation is awarding the “Deutsche Studienpreis” for outstanding dissertations (magna or summa cum laude) in all disciplines.
In addition to scientific excellence a specific significance for the society is of particular importance. However, the focus is not necessarily lying on the economic exploitability but on the macrosocial benefit of scientific results. … Continued
The University of Bremen opened the call for a funding scheme especially interesting for young scientists who have just completed their doctorate but also for advanced postdocs candidates with the career goal professorship. For further details please see below or via this link. Applications are considered until the deadline on 1 April 2019. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshop “A Career in Academia” by Dr. Neela Enke.
Am I suited for a career in academia? And what does it take to become a professor? Are there alternatives? These questions are crucial for scientists throughout their postdoc phase. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshop “Job Hunting and Application Skills” by Dr. Gaby Schilling.
The target group for this workshop are postdoctoral scientists and late-stage PhD students who are currently applying or planning to apply for a position in industry or other areas outside academia. … Continued
Are you a researcher or planning to start a business? This workshop will show you how you can use patent knowledge for innovative research projects or in the context of start-ups, also in connection with planning and applying for research or start-up projects. You will get an overview of the potential of dealing with patents and can use your own examples to deal with the “state of the art”. … Continued
The next Women’s Careers and Networks Symposium (WoCaNet) “Towards a Dialogue!” is taking place from 18-19 March 2019 at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry featuring talks by successful women and men in science from different research fields, industry and other professional backgrounds.
For further information please see below the detailed message by the organising team of the WoCaNet 2019! … Continued
The Göttingen Campus Postdoc Network is launching a new Event, the first Göttingen Campus Postdoc Social “! PROST–DOC !”
When: Thursday 28 Feb 2019 at 6-10 pm
Where: Inti, Burgstraße 17 (Wilhelmsplatz)
Göttingen Campus is organising the 2nd “Postdoc Support and Information Fair“ on 4 April 3-5pm at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research. Come and go as you please during the afternoon to share a coffee and dip in and out of the different stalls. … Continued
The Fraunhofer Attract grant is the excellence stipend programme of Fraunhofer inviting outstanding researchers to develop their ideas towards innovations at Fraunhofer. The call will close on 9 April 2019.
An idea becomes an innovation, if it comes to use. This grant offers outstanding external scientists the opportunity to develop their ideas towards an actual application within an optimally equipped Fraunhofer institute operating close to the market. … Continued
In cooperation with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) the DAAD gives highly qualified Postdocs the possibility of a 1-6 month research stay at Japanese universities or research institutions.
The programme is open for German Postdocs (and those with a permanent residence permit for Germany) of all subjects.
Application deadline for the next funding period (start between 01 Oct 2019 and 31 Dec 2019) will be: 30 April 2019
For more information go to this webpage (unfortunately the instruction there are only available in German). … Continued
How much start-up is hidden in your doctoral project?! Develop your business idea!
“Young Entrepreneurs in Science” workshop on 13-14 February and 6-7 March 2019.
You want to take your future career into your own hands, but you lack the inspiration or a sparking business idea? Learn how your scientific ideas grow into something more and develop your entrepreneurial skills. … Continued
The call for the Dorothea Schlözer Postdoc Program with 3 postdoc positions for female researchers (TV-L 13, 100%, term of 2 years) is now open for applications and will close on 31 March 2019. Whereas one of the postdoc positions is offered at the University Medical Center (UMG), … Continued
Evotec is currently recruiting for a permanent position as Bioinformatic Scientist in Göttingen. The candidate with a background in either biology or informatics should have a keen interest in applying state of the art bioinformatics to target ID and drug discovery. Check out the job advert for this position here. … Continued
Applications are invited for the prestigious King’s College London Prize Fellowships (18-24 months), supported by the Wellcome Trust. These fellowships seek to recruit outstanding postdoctoral basic or translational scientists who are looking to establish their own independent research careers. The closing date for applications is 31 January 2019. … Continued
In the junior research group of Dr. Mateusz Ambrozkiewicz in the department of Prof. Victor Tarabykin (Institute of Cell Biology and Neurobiology, Charité University Hospital, Berlin) a postdoc position is available.
The profile
The ideal candidate is eager to explore developmental neuroscience and exhibits passion and commitment to science, easily learns new experimental methods and provides input to address challenging research questions. … Continued
The GAUSS Career Service is happy to announce the first Career Impulse Session in 2019 titled “Strike a new path – from sequencing data to market data” with Dr. Kathrin Aßhauer from KWS Group.
Kathrin Aßhauer will show during her talk how she benefited from every educational step in her career and will give an insight into the diverse and interesting tasks of her current position as Manager Strategic Planning Quality Gate & … Continued
The GAUSS Career Service is happy to announce the second Career Impulse Session in 2019 titled “Guiding pharma R&D through its biggest disruption at the interface of business and technolog” with Dr. Magdalena Wienken from Accenture.
Magdalena Wienken studied molecular medicine at the University Medical Center Göttingen and did her PhD in the Institute of Molecular Oncology (supervised by Prof. … Continued
The Fraunhofer Attract grant is the excellence stipend programme of Fraunhofer inviting outstanding researchers to develop their ideas towards innovations at Fraunhofer. The call will close on 9 April 2019.
An idea becomes an innovation, if it comes to use. This grant offers outstanding external scientists the opportunity to develop their ideas towards an actual application within an optimally equipped Fraunhofer institute operating close to the market. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshop “Exploring the Unknown – The Company World” by Dr. Gaby Schilling.
This workshop is for postdoctoral scientist 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. … Continued
The new event format “Positions in Science Management: What does …?” is featuring on 23 January 2019 at 1 pm the talk “What does the Head of Göttingen International actually do?” with Dr. Uwe Muus. For further information on this event, which will be this time in English, … Continued
Since 2002 the DFG has annually awarded the Bernd Rendel Prize to early career geoscientists who do not hold a doctorate. These prizes, funded by proceeds from the Bernd Rendel Foundation which is managed by the Stifterverband, aim to enable prizewinners to attend international conferences and congresses or may be used for other scientific purposes. … Continued
The next call for the Dorothea Schlözer Career Coaching is now open until 31 January 2019 starting in February 2019 for approximately 10 months.
If you are a female postdoctoral researcher on the Göttingen Campus apply for this program, which is designed to support young female researchers who aim at a leading position in science with intensive training and workshop offers. … Continued
Are you a scientist who wants to consolidate your independence by establishing a research team and continuing to develop a success career in Europe? The ERC Consolidator Grant could be for you. You can also apply if you have recently created an independent, excellent research team and want to strengthen it.
The next call for the ERC Consolidator grant is now open closing on the 7 February 2019 at 17h Brussels Time. … Continued
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. … Continued
This workshop helps postdoctoral scientists and late-stage PhD students considering to apply for research funding to improve their grant writing skills, learn how to structure and write a successful grant application and how to choose the right funding call. … Continued
Together with the Swiss Informatics Society (SI) and the Austrian Computer Society (OCG), the Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI) annually awards a prize for an outstanding dissertation: the GI dissertation prize.
The dissertation must be in computer science. This includes not only work that represents progress for computer science, but also work from the applications of computer science in other disciplines and work that investigates the interactions between computer science and society. … Continued
In cooperation with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) the DAAD gives highly qualified Postdocs the possibility of a 1-6 month research stay at Japanese universities or research institutions.
The programme is open for German Postdocs (and those with a permanent residence permit for Germany) of all subjects.
Application deadline for the next funding period (start between 01 Oct 2019 and 31 Dec 2019) will be: 30 April 2019
For more information go to this webpage (unfortunately the instruction there are only available in German). … Continued
In the junior research group of Dr. Mateusz Ambrozkiewicz in the department of Prof. Victor Tarabykin (Institute of Cell Biology and Neurobiology, Charité University Hospital, Berlin) a postdoc position is available.
The profile
The ideal candidate is eager to explore developmental neuroscience and exhibits passion and commitment to science, easily learns new experimental methods and provides input to address challenging research questions. … Continued
Agilent is looking for a Genomics Technical Support Engineer to be based at the Cheadle site (close to Manchester, UK). Although the team is very British, this post was traditionally filled with international staff (Belgian, Jamaican, German, etc.).
Agilent’s Life Sciences Solution Unit provides integrated workflow solutions including instruments, software, … Continued
The EMBL in Hinxton, UK is seeking to recruit a Scientific Training Officer, e-learning to join the Training team at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). The main focus will be on developing online training courses for EMBL-EBI’s Train online elearning portal, in close collaboration with others at and beyond EMBL-EBI, and training users of the EMBL-EBI’s bioinformatics services. … Continued
The GAUSS Career Service is happy to announce the first Career Impulse Session in 2019 titled “Strike a new path – from sequencing data to market data” with Dr. Kathrin Aßhauer from KWS Group.
Kathrin Aßhauer will show during her talk how she benefited from every educational step in her career and will give an insight into the diverse and interesting tasks of her current position as Manager Strategic Planning Quality Gate & … Continued
The next Women’s Careers and Networks Symposium (WoCaNet) “Towards a Dialogue!” is taking place from 18-19 March 2019 at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry featuring talks by successful women and men in science from different research fields, industry and other professional backgrounds.
For further information please see below the detailed message by the organising team of the WoCaNet 2019! … Continued
The Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators was first established in 1995. It acknowledges outstanding contributions to biomedical research in Europe based on methods of molecular biology, including novel analytical concepts.
The Award is presented in partnership with the scientific journal Nature and the prize money is 20,000€. … Continued
Whereas most researchers tend to focus on the content and international dimensions of their project proposals with enthusiasm, working out a viable budget often takes a back seat or is neglected altogether. Calculating the budget in the days and hours just before the deadline can lead to a proposal being rejected or to an approved project lacking the means necessary to ensure its smooth administration or even its successfulness. … Continued
Are you a scientist who wants to consolidate your independence by establishing a research team and continuing to develop a success career in Europe? The ERC Consolidator Grant could be for you. You can also apply if you have recently created an independent, excellent research team and want to strengthen it.
The next call for the ERC Consolidator grant is now open closing on the 7 February 2019 at 17h Brussels Time. … Continued
This workshop helps postdoctoral scientists and late-stage PhD students considering to apply for research funding to improve their grant writing skills, learn how to structure and write a successful grant application and how to choose the right funding call. … Continued
Together with the Swiss Informatics Society (SI) and the Austrian Computer Society (OCG), the Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI) annually awards a prize for an outstanding dissertation: the GI dissertation prize.
The dissertation must be in computer science. This includes not only work that represents progress for computer science, but also work from the applications of computer science in other disciplines and work that investigates the interactions between computer science and society. … Continued
Thanks so much to all of you who participated in the survey concerning the workshop planning for next year. Your input is really appreciated and helped us in tailoring the workshops to your needs. If you have further suggestions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch via email.
The Workshop Program of the GAUSS Career Service 2019 is now online and available here. … Continued
The BioBusiness Summer School offers PhD students and Postdocs with a background in Life Sciences who are considering a career outside of academia the chance to support their career orientation in industry and to increase their understanding of business aspects of Life Sciences.
The interactive five-day programme covers basics of the main business topics, … Continued
Since 2002 the DFG has annually awarded the Bernd Rendel Prize to early career geoscientists who do not hold a doctorate. These prizes, funded by proceeds from the Bernd Rendel Foundation which is managed by the Stifterverband, aim to enable prizewinners to attend international conferences and congresses or may be used for other scientific purposes. … Continued
The next call for the Dorothea Schlözer Career Coaching is now open until 31 January 2019 starting in February 2019 for approximately 10 months.
If you are a female postdoctoral researcher on the Göttingen Campus apply for this program, which is designed to support young female researchers who aim at a leading position in science with intensive training and workshop offers. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshop “Exploring the Unknown – The Company World” by Dr. Gaby Schilling.
This workshop is for postdoctoral scientist 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. … Continued
The new event format “Positions in Science Management: What does …?” is featuring on 23 January 2019 at 1 pm the talk “What does the Head of Göttingen International actually do?” with Dr. Uwe Muus. For further information on this event, which will be this time in English, … Continued
In our last Career Impulse Session Dr Nico Geisel from Boston Consulting Group shared his experience at BCG Gamma and they are looking for new talents! So take your opportunity and check out what they have on offer and apply!
BCG Gamma is focusing on data science and advanced analytics consulting. … Continued
In our last Career Impulse Session Dr Nico Geisel from Boston Consulting Group shared his experience at BCG Gamma and they are looking for new talents and are offering data science internships!
The BCG Gamma team comprises of world-class data scientists and business consultants who specialize in the use of advanced analytics to get break-through business results. … Continued
This workshop on pay equity and salary strategies will provide you with different ways how to talk about money when you are a job starter. The workshop is held in German only by the Fair Pay Innovation Lab in cooperation with the Student and Academic Services as well as the the Southern Lower Saxony Innovation Campus (SNIC). … Continued
If you are considering a career in Science Management then this job opportunity might be perfect for you.
The “Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt Braunschweig und Berlin – Nationales Metrologieinstitut” is inviting applications for a Science Management Trainee, who recently completed a PhD.
The deadline is the 22 November 2018 and application can be submitted via the application portal or by snail mail (applications per email are not possible). … Continued
The University of Göttingen is pleased to welcome a leading international expert on gender analysis in natural and life sciences as its guest: Londa Schiebinger is the John L. Hinds Professor for History of Science at Stanford University, and currently directs the EU/US project “Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment“. Three different lectures on 19th and 20th of November will offer an insight into Schiebinger’s research. … Continued
The University of Göttingen is offering the Dorothea Schlözer Mentoring Program for female doctoral and postdoctoral researchers at the Göttingen Campus, designed to accompany young female researchers through this phase of their development. It represents a contribution to increasing the number of women in leading positions at universities and non-university institutions. The application deadline is the 30 November 2018 and the program will start in February 2019. … Continued
Every two year the University Medical Centre is inviting applications for the Margaret Maltby Mentoring Program. This program is offering young female scientists the opportunity to manage their careers successfully with mentoring; a combination of personal accompaniment by a female or male mentor, training and qualification as a person of leadership, … Continued
The GAUSS Career Service is happy to announce the next Career Impulse Session titled “A peak behind the curtain – how publishers manage scientific journals” with Dr. Christian Schulz from Elsevier Publishing in Amsterdam.
Most academics are well aware of what the role of an editor involves, … Continued
The next call for the Max-Eder Junior Reserach Group by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until 4 December 2018.
Aiming at highly qualified young oncologists (physicians during or after the specialist training as well as scientists with an explicit clinic-oriented orientation of the project), who are not older than 35 years on application, … Continued
I am very happy for my assistant Christin Schröter who is expecting her second child very soon. She is pivotal to the success of the GAUSS Career Service and all of you know her either by email or in person from our workshops and networking events.
Until she is returning from maternity leave in 2020 our new colleague Nadine Ernst is covering Christin’s task. … Continued
Far too early our dear friend and colleague Prof. Dr. Michael Hörner passed away at the age of 61 after a prolonged battle with illness.
Michael had been the coordinator of the IMPRS Neurosciences since 2005, and program speaker of the GGNB PhD Program Molecular Physiology of the Brain since 2009. Additionally, he established the electrophysiology training lab at the ENI and was an active organizer of international courses, … Continued
The PraxisForum “Messtechnik – Measurement Technology” focuses on the topics of sensor technology and optical metrology. The event is aimed at scientists and representatives of companies interested in current developments in the field of measurement technology. The use of optical measurement and sensor technology in research and manufacturing processes opens up new possibilities, … Continued
The HR Development Department in close cooperation with the four Graduate Schools (GAUSS, GFA, GGG, GSGG) and the Section Business Contacts of the Department of Public Relations is pleased to announce the launch of the next round of its mentoring program “KaWirMento – … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshop “Networking in Science” by Silke Oehrlein-Karpi for postdoctoral scientists and late-stage PhD students.
Networking is the most effective career building method! It works by developing relationships and talking with people who can support you to explore career options and goals. … Continued
The GAUSS Career Service is happy to announce our December Career Impulse Session titled “Utilize scientific experience in an extra-academic career” with Dr. Ulrike Keitel from IDT Biologika GmbH in Dessau.
Ulrike will share her experiences with finding a position in industry and will talk about the opportunities she took to gain additional skills during and after the PhD theses. … Continued
If you want to build a career in the UN system then this webinar “How to pass the United Nations screening for your dream job” is a great opportunity to learn more about the online recruitment system (Inspira) and provide a step-by-step guidance on how to fill in the profiles when applying for internships or jobs within the Organization. … Continued
The BioBusiness Winter Retreat consists of an interactive programme, designed to help PhD students, postdocs and (young) professionals to reflect on the developments in the fast-changing life sciences industry and their place in it. The program will go into the trends and developments in the life science sector, … Continued
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 18 November 2018.
You are a scientist working at a German university or non-university research institution and want to make your research more flexible? … Continued
Are you a scientist who wants to consolidate your independence by establishing a research team and continuing to develop a success career in Europe? The ERC Consolidator Grant could be for you. You can also apply if you have recently created an independent, excellent research team and want to strengthen it.
The next call for the ERC Consolidator grant is now open closing on the 7 February 2019 at 17h Brussels Time. … Continued
The GAUSS Career Service is happy to announce the next Career Impulse Session titled “Skills in Science – Opportunity in Industry” with Dr. Peter Wehner, sales specialist at Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH.
Many people used microscopy techniques during their PhD but how could you use such a skill to start a career in industry? … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshop “Job Hunting and Application Skills – Natural and Life Sciences” by Gaby Schilling.
The target group for this workshop are postdoctoral scientists and late-stage PhD students who are currently applying or planning to apply for a position in industry or other areas outside academia. … Continued
We are happy to announce our NEW project management workshop “Fast Forward – The Ultimate Productivity System for Researchers” with Dr. Nadine Sinclair.
Achieve amazing productivity and reduce your stress levels in 7 weeks by implementing the productivity secrets that allows management consultants and high-performing industry teams to generate results quickly. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshop “Networking in Science” by Silke Oehrlein-Karpi for postdoctoral scientists and late-stage PhD students.
Networking is the most effective career building method! It works by developing relationships and talking with people who can support you to explore career options and goals. … Continued
Göttingen Campus Postdoc Network Event “Postdoc Support and Information Fair“ on 18 October 3-5pm at the Alte Mensa (Wilhelmsplatz 3). Come and go as you please during the afternoon to share a coffee and dip in and out of the different stalls. Please join us for pizza and a glass of wine at 17:00. … Continued
The new event format “Positions in Science Management: What does …?” is featuring on 17 October 2018 at 1 pm the talk “What does a the GAUSS Career Service Coordinator actually do?” with Dr. Stefanie Klug from the GAUSS Career Service. For further information on this event series, … Continued
Science Careers has teamed up with Research in Germany to offer an exciting job fair focused on career opportunities in Germany.
Meet online with representatives of German universities and research and funding organizations and learn about positions for Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers, funding opportunities, and studying and research in Germany. … Continued
The HR Development Department in close cooperation with the four Graduate Schools (GAUSS, GFA, GGG, GSGG) and the Section Business Contacts of the Department of Public Relations is pleased to announce the launch of the next round of its mentoring program “KaWirMento – … Continued
The Women’s Network for Leadership and Research in medicine e.V. together with the UMG is organising a workshop on “Career paths of women in medicine” on 8 November 2018 at 17-20h. Please register by 31st October 2018.
The workshop (in German) will consist of lectures, excange and get-together (snack) with:
The BioBusiness Winter Retreat consists of an interactive programme, designed to help PhD students, postdocs and (young) professionals to reflect on the developments in the fast-changing life sciences industry and their place in it. The program will go into the trends and developments in the life science sector, … Continued
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 18 November 2018.
You are a scientist working at a German university or non-university research institution and want to make your research more flexible? … Continued
The next call for the Max-Eder Junior Reserach Group by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until 4 December 2018.
Aiming at highly qualified young oncologists (physicians during or after the specialist training as well as scientists with an explicit clinic-oriented orientation of the project), who are not older than 35 years on application, … Continued
The SUB would like to invite you to their event “Make your research visible” on 24 October 2018 at at 4:15 pm in the Historical Building of Göttingen State and University Library.
In the framework of this year’s Open Access week they will promote the movie “Paywall – The business of scholarship” and offer a marketplace with many of the university’s experts on publishing, … Continued
In our last Career Impulse Session Dr Nico Geisel from Boston Consulting Group shared his experience at BCG Gamma and they are looking for new talents and are offering data science internships!
The BCG Gamma team comprises of world-class data scientists and business consultants who specialize in the use of advanced analytics to get break-through business results. … Continued
In our last Career Impulse Session Dr Nico Geisel from Boston Consulting Group shared his experience at BCG Gamma and they are looking for new talents! So take your opportunity and check out what they have on offer and apply!
BCG Gamma is focusing on data science and advanced analytics consulting. … Continued
The project SyNaPSE – Supervised Networking Perspectives in Science and Economy – is organised by the department of social and communication psychology of the Georg-Elias-Müller Institute for Psychology and is addressed to PhD and Master students of all faculties! They offer 1 on 1 coaching, tips and information on the subject of networking, … Continued
The new event format “Positions in Science Management: What does …?” will kick off on 19 September 2018 at 1 pm with the talk “What does a Referent for Research Training Groups actually do?” by Dr. Maren Zempel-Gino from the Reserach Deparmtent. For further information on this event series, … Continued
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! … Continued
The next call for the ERC Starting grant is now open closing on the 17 October 2018 at 17h Brussels Time.
Please see bleow for further details on eligibilty criteria as well as a short profile of the funding scheme. … Continued
The next call for the Max-Eder Junior Reserach Group by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until 18 September 2018.
Aiming at highly qualified young oncologists (physicians during or after the specialist training as well as scientists with an explicit clinic-oriented orientation of the project), who are not older than 35 years on application, … Continued
The next call for the Mildred-Scheel-Postdoc Program by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until 18 September 2018.
This postdoctoral funding scheme is providing young doctors and natural scientists the opportunity to carry out projects in clinically oriented oncological basic research or clinical cancer research at renowned institutions abroad. … Continued
This year’s call for the Volkswagen Foundation Freigeist Fellowships is open until 11 October 2018.
The initiative focuses on early-career researchers from all disciplines. The aim of the Foundation is to facilitate the implementation of extraordinary research projects and to make a substantial contribution to the establishment of dependable career paths for the upcoming generation of researchers. … Continued
The GAUSS Career Service is happy to announce the next Career Impulse Session titled “Data Science in Industry and Consulting” with Dr. Nico Geisel.
Harvard Business Review called Data Scientist “the sexiest job of the 21st century”, and in in particular it has also become a very attractive career path for graduates of physics, … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshop “Job Hunting and Application Skills – Natural and Life Sciences” by Gaby Schilling.
The target group for this workshop are postdoctoral scientists and late-stage PhD students who are currently applying or planning to apply for a position in industry or other areas outside academia. … Continued
The Marsilius Winter School aims to investigate the scientific background of human germline editing and how its applications are regulated at the global level. A discussion on international governance frameworks of germline editing is necessary to address potential use cases, ethical and moral standards of its applications and how to prevent misuse. The Winter School will explore the potential scope of genome editing applications in medicine, … Continued
The Else Kröner Forschungskolleg “Molecular therapy and prediction in gastrointestinal malignancies” at the University Medical Centre in Göttingen is looking for basic and natural scientists in the field of translational cancer research.
The aim of the Else Kröner-Forschungskolleg Göttingen is to improve the quality of education of young scientists in the field of translational cancer research and multidisciplinary oncology in the field of gastrointestinal malignancies. … Continued
Every year, the Daimler and Benz Foundation awards ten scholarships to exceptional postdoctoral students, assistant professors, and young managers of new research projects. Our goal is to support the autonomy and creativity of our next generation of academics and to help committed researchers as they begin their postdoctoral academic careers. … Continued
The Fraunhofer Attract grant is the excellence stipend programme of Fraunhofer inviting outstanding researchers to develop their ideas towards innovations at Fraunhofer. The call will close on 2 October 2018.
An idea becomes an innovation, if it comes to use. This grant offers outstanding external scientists the opportunity to develop their ideas towards an actual application within an optimally equipped Fraunhofer institute operating close to the market. … Continued
The 2nd CRG INTREPiD Postdoctoral COFUND Call is now open and you can apply for one of the 6 postdoctoral fellowships until October 12, 2018.
INTREPiD is a new International Fellowship Programme for talented young researchers in Life Sciences supported by the Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and H2020 Marie Curie Actions– People 2016 COFUND Programme. … Continued
The GGNB offers the PhD workshop “Know Yourself – Emphasize Your Individual Strengths” in September for which there are still a few slots available. The workshop is open to all GAUSS PhD students as well as postdocs and places will be confirmed on a first-come-first-served basis. To register please send an email including a short statement on your motivation to join the workshop to ggnb@gwdg.de. … Continued
The GGNB offers the PhD workshop “Challenges and Opportunities in Management Consulting – an interactive business simulation” on 12 October for which there are still slots available. The workshop is open to all GAUSS PhD students as well as postdocs and places will be confirmed on a first-come-first-serve basis. … Continued
Thanks so much to all of you who participated in our survey for the next workshop cycle 2019! Your input and feedback is very much appreciated.
We will close the survey on the 23rd September – so if you still would like to take part, please see below for details and the link to the survey. … Continued
The BioBusiness Winter Retreat consists of an interactive programme, designed to help PhD students, postdocs and (young) professionals to reflect on the developments in the fast-changing life sciences industry and their place in it. The program will go into the trends and developments in the life science sector, … Continued
In the GAUSS Career Service we are currently planning our workshop schedule for 2019 and same as last year, we would like to involve you in this process.
In order to tailor our workshop offers to your specific needs and requirements, we would like to ask you to take 2 minutes of your time to complete this survey. … Continued
The next call for the Mildred-Scheel-Postdoc Program by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until 18 September 2018.
This postdoctoral funding scheme is providing young doctors and natural scientists the opportunity to carry out projects in clinically oriented oncological basic research or clinical cancer research at renowned institutions abroad.
This year’s call for the Volkswagen Foundation Freigeist Fellowships is open until 11 October 2018.
The initiative focuses on early-career researchers from all disciplines. The aim of the Foundation is to facilitate the implementation of extraordinary research projects and to make a substantial contribution to the establishment of dependable career paths for the upcoming generation of researchers. … Continued
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.
This workshop provides a comprehensive introduction to project management. It is aimed at postdoctoral researchers who would like to add project management to their skillset und apply the principles to their own research.
The GAUSS Career Service is happy to announce our next Career Impulse Session titled “Scientist turned entrepreneur, coach and consultant – developing a versatile career” with Dr. Nadine Sinclair. … Continued
Schönemark Kielhorn Collegen (SKC) Consultants founded by the Göttingen Alumnus Prof. Dr. Matthias Schönemark in 2004, is currently advertising a few job opportunities in Hanover for which they consider GAUSS and GGNB members as “High Potentials”.One of our GGNB Alumna working at SKC as Medical Writer forwarded us this information including the job adverts. … Continued
The next call for the ERC Starting grant was originally set to open on 18 July 2018. However, due to the delayed adoption of the 2019 ERC Work Programe (the legal document for all ERC calls), which is now expected to be published in September. The 2019 Starting Grant call will open upon Work Program adoption. … Continued
ASAPbio, a scientist-driven non-profit organisation promoting transparency and innovation in life sciences communication, is looking for an Associate Director to manage the ASAPbio ambassador community, create resources for preprint advocacy and assist with general operations of the ASAPbio. … Continued
The next call for the Max-Eder Junior Reserach Group by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until 18 September 2018.
Aiming at highly qualified young oncologists (physicians during or after the specialist training as well as scientists with an explicit clinic-oriented orientation of the project), who are not older than 35 years on application, … Continued
Every year, the Daimler and Benz Foundation awards ten scholarships to exceptional postdoctoral students, assistant professors, and young managers of new research projects. Our goal is to support the autonomy and creativity of our next generation of academics and to help committed researchers as they begin their postdoctoral academic careers. … Continued
The Fraunhofer Attract grant is the excellence stipend programme of Fraunhofer inviting outstanding researchers to develop their ideas towards innovations at Fraunhofer. The call will close on 2 October 2018.
An idea becomes an innovation, if it comes to use. This grant offers outstanding external scientists the opportunity to develop their ideas towards an actual application within an optimally equipped Fraunhofer institute operating close to the market. … Continued
The new call for the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSC) is now open until 12 September 2018.
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 and in total 273 million Euros are set to be spent for IF projects in 2018 (45 mio € for global fellowships and 220 mio € for European fellowships). … Continued
Schönemark Kielhorn Collegen (SKC) Consultants founded by the Göttingen Alumnus Prof. Dr. Matthias Schönemark in 2004, is currently advertising a few job opportunities in Hanover for which they consider GAUSS and GGNB members as “High Potentials”.One of our GGNB Alumna working at SKC as Medical Writer forwarded us this information including the job adverts. … Continued
The GGNB offers the PhD workshop “Know Yourself – Emphasize Your Individual Strengths” in September for which there are still a few slots available. The workshop is open to all GAUSS PhD students as well as postdocs and places will be confirmed on a first-come-first-served basis. To register please send an email including a short statement on your motivation to join the workshop to ggnb@gwdg.de. … Continued
Ghalei lab is seeking creative and highly motivated individuals for summer rotations, internships, master thesis projects and postdoctoral research.
The lab uses a combination of techniques including RNA and protein biochemistry, X-ray crystallography, cryo-EM, and yeast genetics to answer fundamental questions about the molecular mechanism underlying the assembly and turnover of a class of RNA-protein complexes involved in RNA modification. … Continued
The Else Kröner Forschungskolleg “Molecular therapy and prediction in gastrointestinal malignancies” at the University Medical Centre in Göttingen is looking for basic and natural scientists in the field of translational cancer research.
The aim of the Else Kröner-Forschungskolleg Göttingen is to improve the quality of education of young scientists in the field of translational cancer research and multidisciplinary oncology in the field of gastrointestinal malignancies. … Continued
The Novo Nordisk Center for Protein Research (CPR) is co-hosting a scientific symposium with career developing and outreach activities 7-9 November at the Mærsk Tower/University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
It is an ENABLE symposium, funded by EU and organised by students and postdocs from CPR and three other European institutes. It is designed to target young researchers with focus on not only a great line up of international renowned speakers but also with a career day -including a job fair, … Continued
The 2nd CRG INTREPiD Postdoctoral COFUND Call is now open and you can apply for one of the 6 postdoctoral fellowships until October 12, 2018.
INTREPiD is a new International Fellowship Programme for talented young researchers in Life Sciences supported by the Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and H2020 Marie Curie Actions– People 2016 COFUND Programme. … Continued
Valuable seed capital and the best conditions for junior researchers from abroad: with the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation promotes outstanding talent and creative approaches to research. Award winners receive up to €1.65 million each, enabling them to spend five years establishing and heading their own research groups at a research institution in Germany. … Continued
Schönemark Kielhorn Collegen (SKC) Consultants founded by the Göttingen Alumnus Prof. Dr. Matthias Schönemark in 2004, is currently advertising a few job opportunities in Hanover for which they consider GAUSS and GGNB members as “High Potentials”.One of our GGNB Alumna working at SKC as Medical Writer forwarded us this information including the job adverts. … Continued
ASAPbio, a scientist-driven non-profit organisation promoting transparency and innovation in life sciences communication, is looking for an Associate Director to manage the ASAPbio ambassador community, create resources for preprint advocacy and assist with general operations of the ASAPbio. … Continued
From 7-9 November 2018 the inaugural ENABLE conference will take place in Copenhagen. ENABLE is the first European symposium organized by and for PhD students and Postdocs.
Early bird registration ends on 31 July 2018. A considerable number of travel grants are available for eligible participants who actively participate via poster presentation, … Continued
This workshop is designed for postdoctoral researchers with at least 1 year of postdoctoral experience. It aims to provide all the tools needed to start an independent academic research group.
The workshop is highly interactive, mostly based on discussions and interactive exercises. … Continued
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 Foudnation 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. … Continued
The new call for the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSC) is now open until 12 September 2018.
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 and in total 273 million Euros are set to be spent for IF projects in 2018 (45 mio € for global fellowships and 220 mio € for European fellowships). … Continued
If you are considering a career in industry related to the production of medicines, cosmetics, food and feed, take this excellent opportunity to attend the Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) workshop from 30th July to 3rd August 2018 in Göttingen!
Take your chance and register now to secure a place in this highly recommended workshop. … Continued
The GAUSS Career Service will be closed for summer holidays from 6th to 23rd July 2018. During that period we will have very limited internet access, but we will pick up on all your emails and requests when we are back in the office.
All the best, Stefanie & Christin … Continued
The GAUSS Career Service is happy to announce our next Career Impulse Session “Being a physicist in biotech doing chemistry – Finding yourself in the job profile “ with Dr. Marcel Bremerich who works as Scientist (R&D Diagnostic Membranes) at Sartorius. … Continued
Schönemark Kielhorn Collegen (SKC) Consultants founded by the Göttingen Alumnus Prof. Dr. Matthias Schönemark in 2004, is currently advertising a few job opportunities in Hanover for which they consider GAUSS and GGNB members as “High Potentials”.One of our GGNB Alumna working at SKC as Medical Writer forwarded us this information including the job adverts. … Continued
PhagoMed is looking for a high-calibre microbiology scientist to join their team as Head of Phage Research in Vienna, Austria
Do you want to be part of pioneering a high-profile antibiotics alternative and lead the research into first-in-class phage applications in areas of high medical need – together with a highly talented team and a network of leading physicians? … Continued
The GOEvol consortium is organizing its 6th meeting #Sensation @GOEEvolution 2018 in Göttingen from 27-28 September 2018.
Registration is open from March 15th to July 15th 2018 following this link: http://goevol.uni-goettingen.de/index.php?id=addgroup0
Registration fees are 10€ for students, 20€ for Postdocs and PIs.
Please post any question either via email at goevolnetwork@gmail.com or via Twitter @GOEEvolution. … Continued
Please check out the different bioinformatician job opportunities at the EMBL in Cambridge (UK) below.
All jobs are at grade 5 level (monthly salary starting at £2,552 after tax) and you will receive a 3 year contract with the possibility of extension up to 9 years, as well as a number of benefits. Detailed requirements can be found via the link. … Continued
In cooperation with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) the DAAD gives highly qualified Postdocs the possibility of a 1-6 month resea
rch stay at japanese universities or research institutions.
The programme is open for german Postdocs (and those with a permanent residence permit for Germany) of all subjects. … Continued
Please check out two different biocurator job opportunities at the EMBL in Cambridge (UK) below.
This is a profession you might not be aware of but it could be a good option for an alternative career. Scientific curators extract detailed scientific information from published scientific papers into the corresponding database.
Qualifications usually include a PhD in the area and experience with the data (which data depends on the job offer). … Continued
Ghalei lab is seeking creative and highly motivated individuals for summer rotations, internships, master thesis projects and postdoctoral research.
The lab uses a combination of techniques including RNA and protein biochemistry, X-ray crystallography, cryo-EM, and yeast genetics to answer fundamental questions about the molecular mechanism underlying the assembly and turnover of a class of RNA-protein complexes involved in RNA modification. … Continued
The next call for the ERC Starting grant will open on 18 July 2018. Check out the information below if you are interested in this funding scheme as the timeline to the application deadline is tight and there are already things you can do upfront before the call opens.
Brief facts on the funding scheme: … Continued
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.
From 7-9 November 2018 the inaugural ENABLE conference will take place in Copenhagen. ENABLE is the first European symposium organized by and for PhD students and Postdocs.
Early bird registration ends on 31 July 2018. A considerable number of travel grants are available for eligible participants who actively participate via poster presentation, … Continued
The new call for the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSC) is now open until 12 September 2018.
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 and in total 273 million Euros are set to be spent for IF projects in 2018 (45 mio € for global fellowships and 220 mio € for European fellowships). … Continued
In cooperation with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) the DAAD gives highly qualified Postdocs the possibility of a 1-6 month resea
rch stay at japanese universities or research institutions.
The programme is open for german Postdocs (and those with a permanent residence permit for Germany) of all subjects. … Continued
Sartorius is one of the world’s leading providers of laboratory and process technologies and equipment.
GAUSS/GGNB is organiying a half-day excursion to the Sartorius site in Göttingen, which will take place on Monday 9 July 2018 (time tba).
The excursion will include a presentation on the company, … Continued
If you are considering a career in industry related to the production of medicines, cosmetics, food and feed, take this excellent opportunity to attend the Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) workshop from 30th July to 3rd August 2018 in Göttingen!
Be quick and reserve your place for a reduced fee before the early bird registration ends on 2 July 2018 (for further details, … Continued
This workshop is designed for postdoctoral researchers with at least 18 months of postdoctoral experience. It aims to provide all the tools needed to start an independent academic research group.
The workshop is highly interactive, mostly based on discussions and interactive exercises.
The GOEvol consortium is organizing its 6th meeting #Sensation @GOEEvolution 2018 in Göttingen from 27-28 September 2018.
Registration is open from March 15th to July 15th 2018 following this link: http://goevol.uni-goettingen.de/index.php?id=addgroup0
Registration fees are 10€ for students, 20€ for Postdocs and PIs.
Please post any question either via email at goevolnetwork@gmail.com or via Twitter @GOEEvolution. … Continued
This year’s call for the Peter & Traudl Engelhorn Foundation Research Prize is now open inviting applications on the topic “Computational Biology: New Methods in Biology – Oriented Information Technologies With Impact On Basic Research and Application“.
The biennial Research Prize is endowed with €10,000 and the call will close on 30 July 2018. … Continued
Ghalei lab is seeking creative and highly motivated individuals for summer rotations, internships, master thesis projects and postdoctoral research.
The lab uses a combination of techniques including RNA and protein biochemistry, X-ray crystallography, cryo-EM, and yeast genetics to answer fundamental questions about the molecular mechanism underlying the assembly and turnover of a class of RNA-protein complexes involved in RNA modification. … Continued
The GAUSS Career Service is offering individual counseling and advice sessions where different topics, including CV and application checks, can be covered. Our goal is to facilitate your career planning and assist you in handling challenges in your current work environment. We are aiming to enable you to reflect on your options and decide about your next career steps or activities to overcome challenges. … Continued
The GAUSS Career Service will be closed for summer holidays from 6th to 22nd July 2018. During that period we will have very limited internet access, but we will pick up on all your emails and requests when we are back in the office.
All the best,
Stefanie & Christin … Continued
The GAUSS Career Service is happy to announce our next Career Impulse Session titled “From Academia to Industry – Challenges and Benefits“ with Dr. Lea Lohe who works as Scientific Manager Validation at B. Braun Melsungen AG.
Date: Friday, 29 June 2018
Time: 14-16h
Location: GZMB building, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11, … Continued
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.
Valuable seed capital and the best conditions for junior researchers from abroad: with the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation promotes outstanding talent and creative approaches to research. Award winners receive up to €1.65 million each, enabling them to spend five years establishing and heading their own research groups at a research institution in Germany. … Continued
If you are interested in applying for an ERC grant or a Marie-Skłodowska-Curie fellowship, take this opportunity and register for the webinar informing on both funding streams, which will take place on 26 June at 10-12 am.
The webinar (in German only) is organised by both National Contact Points and is adressing PhD and postdoctral researcher of all resarch disciplines. … Continued
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 Foudnation 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. … Continued
PhagoMed is looking for a high-calibre microbiology scientist to join their team as Head of Phage Research in Vienna, Austria
Do you want to be part of pioneering a high-profile antibiotics alternative and lead the research into first-in-class phage applications in areas of high medical need – together with a highly talented team and a network of leading physicians? … Continued
Are you enjoying going for a run and chating about scientific projects and your research interests? Then why not combining it and meeting likeminded people!
Olga Kellert recently launched the “SBS – Sports, Brain & Socializing” and if you are keen to join, contact her (email) and find out more about herself and events below. … Continued
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!
Why communicate? How? And when?
The course will start with a brief overview of media relations and science communication. We will identify formats, stakeholders, as well as goals, and talk about the “public understanding of science”, recent changes in technology and media, and about their effect on communication.
The course includes examples (be prepared to write a short piece about your project) as well as an overview of the University’s Public Relations Department. … Continued
Since 12 April 2018 the new call for the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSC) is open until 12 September 2018.
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 and in total 273 million Euros are set to be spent for IF projects in 2018 (45 mio € for global fellowships and 220 mio € for European fellowships). … Continued
Pfizer is advertising a position for a Manager (m/w) Site Compliance in Freiburg (Germany) initially for 2 years.
For further information please see the job advert (in German only) here.
One of our alumni is working in this department and if you would like to contact her, … Continued
This workshop provides a comprehensive introduction to project management. It is aimed at postdoctoral researchers who would like to add project management to their skillset und apply the principles to their own research.
Date: Thursday and Friday, 21-22 June 2018
Duration: 1,5 days; Thursday: 9-17h, Friday: 9-13 h
Location: tbc
Trainer: Dr. … Continued
The Schering Stiftung and the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung offer start-up grants to fund promising research ideas by young scientists. Support is provided for projects in the fields of biochemical, neuroscience or immunological basic research with biomedical implications. The program is explicitly aimed at highly motivated young investigators who wish to pursue an independent career and conduct their own research which is different from that of their supervisors. … Continued
Valuable seed capital and the best conditions for junior researchers from abroad: with the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation promotes outstanding talent and creative approaches to research. Award winners receive up to €1.65 million each, enabling them to spend five years establishing and heading their own research groups at a research institution in Germany. … Continued
PhagoMed is looking for a high-calibre microbiology scientist to join their team as Head of Phage Research in Vienna, Austria
Do you want to be part of pioneering a high-profile antibiotics alternative and lead the research into first-in-class phage applications in areas of high medical need – together with a highly talented team and a network of leading physicians? … Continued
This workshop helps postdoctoral scientists and late-stage PhD students considering to apply for research funding to improve their grant writing skills, learn how to structure and write a successful grant application and how to choose the right funding call.
Date: Tuesday and Wednesday, 26-27 June 2018
Duration: 2 days (9:00-16:30h)
Location: TBC
Trainer: Dr. … Continued
We are happy to announce the launch of our new website with updated content and a few new features.
Check it out and learn more about our services and what the GAUSS Career Service is offering to support postdoctoral careers in natural and life sciences – inside and outside of academia. … Continued
There are still a few places left in the GAUSS PhD course “Higher education for natural scientists” taking place from Wednesday, 30 May to Friday 1 June 2018. If you are interested please see below for further details and how to register.
Target Group: GAUSS doctoral students – but it is also suitable for early postdocs
Goals and content: In the course you get an introduction to the fundamentals of academic teaching. … Continued
The next Brown Bag Lunch Talk organised by the Göttingen Campus is coming up on 13 June 2018, 12-13h. The topic will be “Campus Labs” and the talk will take place in the Hannah-Vogt-Saal, Alte Mensa, Wilhelms Platz (map). You can bring your lunch or order a lunch bag when you register for the event. … Continued
The Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists is now open for entries! This is the sixth year that Science and SciLifeLab will present this award, which offers four recent PhD graduates a life-changing opportunity.
Recent doctoral graduates in the life sciences may submit a 1,000-word essay based on their thesis work. … Continued
Evotec is currently advertising very interesting job opportunities on a full-time and permanent basis. The InVitro Pharmacology department is seeking for a highly motivated and dedicated Biology Data Scientist (f/m),Transcriptomics/NGS to join an interdisciplinary team of pharmacologists, biologists, bioinformaticians and chemists in collaborative projects in the field of metabolic diseases. … Continued
The BioBusiness Summer School offers PhD students and Postdocs with a background in Life Sciences who are considering a career outside of academia the chance to support their career orientation in industry and to increase their understanding of business aspects of Life Sciences.
The interactive five-day programme covers subjects such as product development, … Continued
The Peter und Traudl Engelhorn Stiftung is annually awarding 2-year Postdoc Scholarships to outstanding junior scientists in life sciences (e.g. Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Genetics, Proteomics, System Biology, BioMedTech, Biotechnology, BioInformatics, Biophysics).
Usually seven scholarships (TVÖD E13) are awarded each year and the applicants should be less than 34 years of age. … Continued
Merck is currently advertising a post for a Global Manager for Test strips in Water and Food Analytics in Darmstadt, where you will work in a team with one of our Alumni who kindly forwarded the job advert.
Please find further information on the job below or here. … Continued
Our next GAUSS Career Service workshop “Job Hunting and Application Skills – Natural and Life Sciences” will take place on 26-27 April 2018 from 12-17h (Thursdsay) and 10-17h (Friday). The workshop will be held by Dr. Gaby Schilling in the GZMB Building, seminar room 0.232 (map). … Continued
In this webcast, Vanessa Hill, Dr Marcus Eriksen and Kára McCullough reveal how they built their own unique science careers from the ground up. Join us as they discuss what inspired them to create their own ventures and how they’ve made them succeed. These three experts in science communication, science advocacy, and science youth outreach, will walk you through the art of networking, … Continued
On 24 April 2018 the University of Groningen (The Netherlands), on of the University of Göttingens strategic U4 partners, will host a workshop on the EU funding scheme “Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships” with speakers from the European Commission and the Dutch National Contact Point RVO.
For further information please check out the host’s webpage as well as the program of the event. … Continued
On Thursday, 3 May 2018 2-3 pm, the German National Contact Point for Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions (NCP MSC) will be conducting a webinar on how to prepare a successful application for an Individual Fellowship (IF).
The webinar will be held in English. It is explicitly aimed at international researchers who recently moved to Germany and are not yet fluent in German, … Continued
PhagoMed is looking for a talented researcher to join their team as Technical Assistant (TA) in Vienna, Austria
Do you want to be part of developing a high-profile antibiotics alternative and help drive the research into new phage-based pharmaceuticals – together with an experienced and motivated team and a network of leading physicians? … Continued
If you are a postdoc based at a German research institute and are keen to apply for funds of up to €20,000 (for 2 years) to cover costs like consumables, equipment or conference trips, then this might be for you!
The Daimler and Benz Foundation reopened their Scholarship Program and the current call is closing on 1 October 2018. … Continued
“I, Scientist – The conference on gender, career paths and networking” will be held on 25-26 May 2018 in Berlin.
The conference is designed by and for students and young postdocs in natural sciences and mathematics. Their mission is to increase the visibility of female role models, introduce you to a variety of career options, … Continued
If you are interested in Science Management but are not sure if this career path is something for you, participate in this half-day workshop on 12 June 2018 1-5pm at the Sternwarte in Göttingen.
This workshop will be held in German by Dr Anna Beck and Dr Britta Korkowsky. For further information please see below and check out this link. … Continued
Brown Bag Lunch
A lunch break with a view into the future of the University of Göttingen – get answers to your questions.
The next lunch, on Wednesday 9 May 2018 at the Paulinerkirche, will focus on “Career Paths in Science and Academia: The Tenure-Track-Programme and Measures Beyond“. … Continued
Participate in the first Young Cancer Researchers Networking Conference for early-career scientists at the University College York (Ireland) in June 2018! Take advantage of the Early-bird registration (€50) and register before 27 April 2018.
Theme: Translational Cancer Research
Date: 21-22 June 2018
Venue: Western Gateway Building, … Continued
The Institute of Geography and the company Esri Deutschland GmbH is inviting to the Esri GIS-Campus day on Thursday and Friday 19-20 April 2018 at the Faculty of Geosciences and Geography (room MN09; map), Goldschmidstr. 5, 37077 Göttingen.
Attending the Campus Day is free of charge but for organisational reasons please register here by 31 March 2018. … Continued
Come along to another Career Impulse Session entitled “Lessons learned in small pharma and big pharma” with Dr. Sibylle Eisbach who works as a CMC Manager in Global Regulatory Affairs at Bayer AG in Wuppertal. After her talk, Sibylle will take some time to answer your individual questions. … Continued
Under the motto “How to make the most of your postdoc“, all Göttingen postdocs and early career researchers are warmly invited to the Inaugural Event of the Göttingen Campus Postdoc Community in the Hannah Vogt / Emmy Noether rooms, Alte Mensa, Wilhelmsplatz 3, on Tuesday 20 March from 2.00 to 5.30 pm. … Continued
Supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research as well as a number of selected partners, Young Entrepreneurs in Science strives to strengthen Germany’s position as a hub for innovation and entrepreneurial thinking by accelerating the transition of research discoveries from lab to market.
Do not miss the chance to register for the workshop series in Göttingen starting on April 10 and 11! … Continued
Sign-up for our next GAUSS Career Service workshop “Know Yourself – Emphasize Your Individual Strengths” on Tuesday 17 April 2018. The course will be held by Dr. Silke Oehrlein-Karpi and will take place in the GZMB building, seminar room 0.232 (map).
Please register here and send an email to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de including a short statement on your motivation to attend the workshop. … Continued
Are you interested in the latest insights on regenerative medicine and cell therapy and would you like to learn more about their translation into viable solutions?
Then this event is for you: Sartorius Research Xchange Forum on 20-21 March 2018!
Academic and industry experts are coming together to foster exchange and stimulate dialog about the next generation of interdisciplinary research. … Continued
Roche is currently advertising very interesting job opportunities in their Research and Early Development Department. As pRED Informatics they develop and support a large landscape of IT solutions to support the scientists in data analysis, data consolidation and decision making. As Lab Automation becomes more and more prominent Roche are currently seeking for new talents that have a broad and deep understanding of lab processes and a strong interest in Informatics. … Continued
Roche is currently advertising very interesting job opportunities in their Research and Early Development Department. As pRED Informatics they develop and support a large landscape of IT solutions to support the scientists in data analysis, data consolidation and decision making. As Lab Automation becomes more and more prominent Roche are currently seeking for new talents that have a broad and deep understanding of lab processes and a strong interest in Informatics. … Continued
Pfizer is advertising a position within their 2 year Trainee Program in Pharmacy again, which will run over a period of 24 months from April 2018 to March 2020 in Freiburg (Germany).
For further information please see the job advert (in German only) here. One of our Chemist Alumni successfully applied for this program although they are looking for a candidate with a PhD in pharmacy as the ideal candidate. … Continued
The “Freigeist” Fellowship scheme is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation and open to junior researchers (up to 4 years postdoc experience) from all research disciplines.
Funding is available for your own position (head of junior research group) for up to € 1 million and 5 (+3) years. … Continued
Roche is currently advertising very interesting job opportunities in their Research and Early Development Department. As pRED Informatics they develop and support a large landscape of IT solutions to support the scientists in data analysis, data consolidation and decision making. As Lab Automation becomes more and more prominent Roche are currently seeking for new talents that have a broad and deep understanding of lab processes and a strong interest in Informatics. … Continued
We are currently in the process of planning our workshop schedule for 2018. As we are very keen to provide you with the best and most helpful support possible, we are revisiting our workshop program.
We would really appreciate if you would take 3 minutes of your time to complete a very simple survey, … Continued
Interested in meeting recruiters without leaving your lab? Then register for the Science Virtual Career Fair with Focus on Europe on 27 February 2018, 9-13h!
Science Careers is excited to bring you an easy and efficient way to connect with select employers in Europe. Meet with representatives to learn about positions for PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in Europe. … Continued
The 8th biennial NEURIZONS Conference will be held in Göttingen from 29 May – 1 June 2018 bringing together outstanding scientists with young researchers from all fields of neuroscience. The great scientific program will be supplemented by a career fair, method workshops and more, providing PhD students and postdoctoral researchers with an excellent opportunity for scientific exchange and networking. … Continued
The Annual Career Fair „Working for International Organizations“ hosted by the Federal Foreign Office takes place on Saturday, 3 March 2018, 10-17h in the convention centre of the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin.
The event addresses students, graduates and employees who are interested in working for an International or European Organization. … Continued
Roche is currently advertising very interesting job opportunities in their Research and Early Development Department. As pRED Informatics they develop and support a large landscape of IT solutions to support the scientists in data analysis, data consolidation and decision making. As Lab Automation becomes more and more prominent Roche are currently seeking for new talents that have a broad and deep understanding of lab processes and a strong interest in Informatics. … Continued
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. … Continued
The „Alzheimer Forschung Initiative e.V.“ (AFI) is supporting outstanding scientists with a research focus on the Alzheimer disease who are based at a German university or research institution. Different funding schemes are available as for example project and standard grants (2-3 years and up to max. €120.000), international training grants (up to €5.000) and travel grants (up to €1.000). … Continued
Roche is currently advertising very interesting job opportunities in their Research and Early Development Department. As pRED Informatics they develop and support a large landscape of IT solutions to support the scientists in data analysis, data consolidation and decision making. As Lab Automation becomes more and more prominent Roche are currently seeking for new talents that have a broad and deep understanding of lab processes and a strong interest in Informatics. … Continued
CSL Behring GmbH Marburg is advertising a permanent post “Laborant 5 Testentwicklung ASQ” in the department “Test Development Chemistry” on their Marburg site (Germany). The job description, which is only available in German, can be found here. … Continued
Annually the Körber Foundation is awarding the “Deutsche Studienpreis” for outstanding dissertations (magna or summa cum laude) in all disciplines.
In addition to scientific excellence a specific significance for the society is of particular importance. However, the focus is not necessarily lying on the economic exploitability but on the macrosocial benefit of scientific results. … Continued
The University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) is advertising a position as “Coordinator for Scientific Skills in Medical Studies“. The post is for two years initially with an option to be extended (100% TVL).
If you are a motivated candidate with a PhD in medical, life or natural sciences and experienced in teaching/study program organization or in science management apply by 23 February 2018. … Continued
Pfizer is advertising a position within their 2 year Trainee Program in Pharmacy again, which will run over a period of 24 months from April 2018 to March 2020 in Freiburg (Germany).
For further information please see the job advert (in German only) here. One of our Chemist Alumni successfully applied for this program although they are looking for a candidate with a PhD in pharmacy as the ideal candidate. … Continued
Gregor Bucher and Ufuk Günesdogan initiated a new mailing list in order to foster the interaction between researchers in the life sciences. This mailing list is meant for exchange between PhD students, scientists and technicians working in the life sciences at the Göttingen Campus.
Please use this list for:
Subscribe at https://listserv.gwdg.de/mailman/listinfo/bio-bench-goettingen. … Continued
The University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) is advertising a position as “Coordinator for further Development of the Medical Curriculum“. The post is for two years initially with an option to be extended (100% TVL).
If you are a motivated candidate with a PhD in medical, health, natural sciences or psychology apply by 23 February 2018. … Continued
Roche is currently advertising very interesting job opportunities in their Research and Early Development Department. As pRED Informatics they develop and support a large landscape of IT solutions to support the scientists in data analysis, data consolidation and decision making. As Lab Automation becomes more and more prominent Roche are currently seeking for new talents that have a broad and deep understanding of lab processes and a strong interest in Informatics. … Continued
