Newsletter Career Service 2023/10
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:
- directly influencing the events and activities of the Postdoc Network
- meeting postdocs from across the Campus
- getting experience in committee work
- gaining a better understanding of how large organisations work
- opportunities to be more involved in the running of the University and Campus,
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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.
- Target group: 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.
- Goal: Becoming familiar with all steps involved in the application process.
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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.
- Date: Friday, 8 Dec 2023
- Time: 14:00-15:30 (appr.)
- Location: the event will take place online
- Registration: Please write a short e-mail to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de if you plan to attend.
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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:
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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
Newsletter Career Service 2023/09
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:
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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
Newsletter Career Service 2023/08
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.
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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:
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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.
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Newsletter Career Service 2023/07
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.
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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.
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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
Newsletter Career Service 2023/06
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:
- Enrolled students/PhD students: 179€ (early-bird registration),
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The DFG is offering a variety of funding opportunities for all career stages between doctorate and professorship. To learn more about schemes suitable for postdocs join their online talk series “Prospects”. Some talks are more like an overview and other talks are quite specific focusing only on one funding scheme.You will also get advice on how to prepare your proposal for the review process. … 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
Newsletter Career Service 2023/05
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:
- Lecture programme: 1-2 June 2023 via Zoom
- On-campus event: 6 June 2023 – Foyer Physics, NorthCampus and 7 June 2023,
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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:
- Enrolled students/PhD students: 179€ (early-bird registration),
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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:
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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
Newsletter Career Service 2023/04
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:
- Project Manager Clinical Studies (apply by 16 April 2023)
- Clinical Research Associate / Clinical Monitoring (apply by 16 April 2023)
- Project Manager (Vigilance) Clinical Studies (apply by 23 April 2023)
- Clinical Research Associate / Clinical Monitoring (apply by 23 April 2023)
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The DFG is offering a variety of funding opportunities for all career stages between doctorate and professorship. To learn more about schemes suitable for postdocs join their online talk series “Prospects”. Some talks are more like an overview and other talks are quite specific focusing only on one funding scheme.You will also get advice on how to prepare your proposal for the review process. … 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.
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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.
- Date: Friday, 21 April 2023
- Time: 14:00-15:30 (appr.)
- Location: GZMB building,
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Newsletter Career Service 2023/03
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.
- Date: Friday, 21 April 2023
- Time: 14:00-15:30 (appr.)
- Location: GZMB building,
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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:
- Modelling and computer simulation
- Design of user interfaces based on new scientific findings
- Data handling and analysis procedures
- Scientific visualization of data and processes
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:
- Job advert Clinical Research Assistant
- Job advert Project Manager for clinical studies
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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).
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Growing up in Science (GUIS) was started in 2014 at New York University by professors Wei Ji Ma and Cristina Alberini. Now it runs worldwide in many universities and also in Berlin.
Everyone in academia had to face struggles, detours, switching fields, and failures during their scientific career. … Continued
Newsletter Career Service 2023/02
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.
- Date: Friday, 17 February 2023
- Time: 14:00-15:30 (appr.)
- Location: online
- Registration:To sign up please send an email to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de.
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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.
- Date: Friday, 10 March 2023
- Time: 14:00-15:30 (appr.)
- Location: online
- Registration:To sign up please send an email to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de.
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We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshop “Interview Training for Postdocs” by Christelle Linsenmann.
Are you currently working as Postdoc or finalizing your PhD? Do you plan to transition to a position outside of academia, potentially in industry, but you feel unprepared for searching and finding a new position? … 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
Newsletter Career Service 2023/01
We are happy to announce our first GAUSS Career Impulse Session in 2023 with Head of Data Science Dr Martin Helm (Vilua).
- Date: Friday, 20 January 2023
- Time: 14:00-15:30 (appr.)
- Location: online via Zoom
- Registration:To sign up please send an email to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de.
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We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service Workshop “Exploring the Unknown – The Company World” by Dr. Gaby Schilling. This workshop is designed for postdoctoral scientists and late-stage PhD students who are currently applying or planning to apply for a position in industry. Getting to know different departments and their functions in a company and reflect about whether related jobs could be a good fit for your interests and profile are the goals of this workshop. … 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.
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The University of Bremen is advertising for a postdoc position within the research group “Developmental and Educational Psychology”. The contract would be for 3 years. For further details check out the job advert here. The closing date is 16 January 2023. … 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
Newsletter Career Service 2022/12
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).
- Date: Friday, 20 January 2023
- Time: 14:00-15:30 (appr.)
- Location: online via Zoom
- Registration:To sign up please send an email to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de.
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We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service Workshop “Exploring the Unknown – The Company World” by Dr. Gaby Schilling. This workshop is designed for postdoctoral 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
Newsletter Career Service 2022/11
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).
- Date: Friday, 18 November 2022
- Time: 14:00-15:30 (appr.)
- Location: online via Zoom
- Registration:To sign up please send an email to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de.
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We’re happy to announce our next online GAUSS Career Impulse Session with Senior Data Scientist Dr Debsankha Manik (MOIA GmbH.).
- Date: Friday, 2 December 2022
- Time: 14:00-15:30 (appr.)
- Location: online via Zoom
- Registration:To sign up please send an email to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de.
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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
Newsletter Career Service 2022/10
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.
- Date: Friday, 11 November 2022, 9:00-17:00 h
- Location: Large seminar room 0.232 of the GZMB building, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11, 37077 Göttingen (map)
- Target Group: Postdocs aiming to pusue an academic career
- Trainer: Prof.
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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).
- Date: Friday, 18 November 2022
- Time: 14:00-15:30 (appr.)
- Location: online via Zoom
- Registration:To sign up please send an email to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de.
… 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
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:
- strives to ensure that the GC Postdoc community is valued,
… 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
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
Newsletter Career Service 2022/09
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).
- Date: Friday, 16 September 2022
- Time: 14:00-15:30 (appr.)
- Location: online via Zoom
- Registration:To sign up please send an email to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de.
… Continued
We’re happy to announce our next online GAUSS Career Impulse Session with Clinical Project Manager Dr Marco Becker (AstraZeneca).
- Date: Friday, 14 October 2022
- Time: 14:00-15:30 (appr.)
- Location: online via Zoom
- Registration:To sign up please send an email to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de.
… 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
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
Newsletter Career Service 2022/08
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).
- Date: Friday, 16 September 2022
- Time: 14:00-15:30 (appr.)
- Location: online via Zoom
- Registration:To sign up please send an email to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de.
… 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 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
Newsletter Career Service 2022/07
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
Newsletter Career Service 2022/06
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).
- Date: Friday, 8 July 2022
- Time: 14:00-15:30 (appr.)
- Location: online via Zoom
- Registration:To sign up please send an email to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de.
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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
- envision a clearer path towards future success,
… 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 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
Newsletter Career Service 2022/05
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).
- Date: Friday, 20 May 2022
- Time: 14:00-15:30 (appr.)
- Location: online via zoom
- Registration: Sign up by sending an email to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de.
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We’re happy to announce our next online GAUSS Career Impulse Session with Dr. Ole Frister (Bayer AG).
- Date: Friday, 3 June 2022
- Time: 14:00-15:30 (appr.)
- Location: online via Zoom
- Registration:To sign up please send an email to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de.
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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
- envision a clearer path towards future success,
… 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 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
Newsletter Career Service 2022/04
We’re happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Impulse Sessions in 2022, this time with consultant Dr. Franziska Kretzschmar from d–fine.
- Date: Friday, 22 April 2022
- Time: 14:00-15:30 (appr.)
- Location: online
- Registration: Please write a short e-mail to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de if you plan to attend,
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We are happy to announce our first in-person GAUSS Career Service workshop this year: “Conflict Management” by Dr. Neela Enke.
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We’re happy to announce our first ever hybrid GAUSS Career Impulse Session with Dr. Cindy Wechsler (Pfizer Manufacturing Deutschland GmbH).
- Date: Friday, 20 May 2022
- Time: 14:00-15:30 (appr.)
- Location: online via zoom
- Registration: Sign up by sending an email to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de.
… Continued
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:
- Category 1: Clinical research: for studies on patients.
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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)
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Newsletter Career Service 2022/03
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.
- Date: Friday, 18 March 2022
- Time: 14:00-15:30 (appr.)
- Location: online
- Registration: Please write a short e-mail to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de if you plan to attend,
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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:
- GMP course in German: 4-8 April 2022
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.
- Date: Friday, 22 April 2022
- Time: 14:00-15:30 (appr.)
- Location: online
- Registration: Please write a short e-mail to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de if you plan to attend,
… Continued
We are happy to announce our first in-person GAUSS Career Service workshop this year: “Conflict Management” by Dr. Neela Enke.
… 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
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
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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
Newsletter Career Service 2022/02
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.
- Date: Friday, 18 February 2022
- Time: 14:00-15:30 (appr.)
- Location: online
- Registration: Please write a short e-mail to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de if you plan to attend,
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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.
- Date: Friday, 18 March 2022
- Time: 14:00-15:30 (appr.)
- Location: online
- Registration: Please write a short e-mail to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de if you plan to attend,
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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:
- GMP course in English: 7-11 March 2022
- GMP course in German: 4-8 April 2022
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)
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Newsletter Career Service 2022/01
We’re happy to announce our first GAUSS Career Impulse Sessions in 2022, this time with senior editor Dr. Christian Schnell from Nature Communications.
- Date: Friday, 21 January 2022
- Time: 14:00-15:30 (appr.)
- Location: online
- Registration: Please write a short e-mail to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de if you plan to attend,
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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.
- Date: Friday, 18 February 2022
- Time: 14:00-15:30 (appr.)
- Location: online
- Registration: Please write a short e-mail to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de if you plan to attend,
… 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 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:
- GMP course in English: 7-11 March 2022
- GMP course in German: 4-8 April 2022
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
Newsletter Career Service 2021/12
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.
- Date: Friday, 21 January 2022
- Time: 14:00-15:30 (appr.)
- Location: online
- Registration: Please write a short e-mail to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de if you plan to attend,
… Continued
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
Newsletter Career Service 2021/11
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.
- Date: Friday, 3 December 2021
- Time: 14:00-15:30 (appr.)
- Location: online
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
Newsletter Career Service 2021/10
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.
- Date: 4 November 2021
- Time: 14:00-15:30 (appr.)
- Location: online
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
Newsletter Career Service 2021/09
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
Newsletter Career Service 2021/08
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
Newsletter Career Service 2021/07
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
Newsletter Career Service 2021/06
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
Newsletter Career Service 2021/05
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
Newsletter Career Service 2021/04
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
Newsletter Career Service 2021/03
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
Newsletter Career Service 2021/02
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 c