The GAUSS Career Service will be closed for a couple of short breaks in April and May 2025:
It is very common to be unsure about your next career step either at the end of your PhD or also during your postdoc phase. Our goal is to facilitate your career planning and assist you in handling challenges in your current work environment. We are aiming to enable you to reflect on your options and decide about your next career steps or activities to overcome challenges. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service online workshop “Career Planning” by Dr Iris Köhler.
This workshop is intended for Postdocs and late-stage PhDs in the Natural and Life Sciences.
Dates: 15, 19, 22 and 26 May 2025Duration: 4 sessions, 9:00-11:00hLocation: onlineTrainer: Dr Iris Köhler
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 GAUSS Career Impulse Session, this time with Dr. Franziska Rathjens, Director of Global Pharmacovigilance & Patient Safety at B.Braun in Melsungen. Join us for an insightful session with Franziska, where she will explore diverse career paths in the pharmaceutical industry, focusing on Pharmacovigilance and touching on Quality Management and Regulatory Affairs. … Continued
The Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden is organising another series of online info events in German on how to apply for a HAW Professorship especially concerning the required application documents.
The virtual event series consists of three 45-minute sessions and is aimed at anyone interested in a professorship at a university of applied sciences (HAW).In addition to input from the speakers, … Continued
The Campus Institute Data Science (CIDAS) at the University of Göttingen, in collaboration with various departments, invites you to a digital information event on 23 April 2025 at 17:00h to provide early-career researchers in the field of Artificial Intelligence with an overview of the research environment, cooperation opportunities, … 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 answers your questions.
The SUB Göttingen is organising monthly online information events on new offers for publishing open access. … Continued
The German Postdoc Network is organizing a PostDoc Definition Workshop on 6 May 2025, an interactive online event trying to define the term “Postdoc” more clearly, which could help address some of the ambiguity that exists around the role of a Postdoc in Germany, and ultimately make it easier for them to navigate their careers and access the support they need. … Continued
In the coming years, a whole series of open positions for professorships will be advertised at universities of applied sciences (HAW). To date, only a quarter of professorships at HAWs in Germany are held by women. Many female academics are not aware of the career path of a university professorship.
The upcoming online information event will inform you about specifics of the job profile and the general conditions and requirements for an appointment as a professor at a university of applied sciences. … Continued
On behalf of the Organizing Team we are happy to announce the 9th Women’s Careers and Networks Symposium (WoCaNet) on the 4-5 June 2025 at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences – Faßberg Campus in Göttingen.
WoCaNet has become a real tradition in Göttingen! Since its first edition in 2010, … Continued
Several Scientific Coordinators of Göttingen Campus are offering a workshop on the occupational field Science Management for all those interested in this career path. The in-person workshop will take place on Tuesday, 20 May 2025 from 9:00-14:00h. It will be held in German – please see below for a detailed description and further information. … Continued
The GRK2824 cordially invites you all to a panel discussion “Industry & me” – From Lab to Launch on Tuesday, 27 May 2025, starting at 16:00h. Invited speakers and attendees will discuss how MD/PhD students and postdocs can engage with the startup world.
Speakers:
The jobvector career day is Europe´s biggest career fair for Natural Scientists, Physicians, Engineers, and Computer Scientists where you can receive valuable information for a successful career! Be inspired by talks of top companies and recruiters. Seize your chance and personally contact them at the fair!
Read more: Jobvector Career Day for natural scientists, … Continued
The Equal Opportunities Office of the UMG now offers an equity and diversity workshop program open to all members of DFG networks on Göttingen campus.
Upcoming events:
The Hochschuldidaktik of Göttingen University is offering several workshops in English to refine the teaching skills of its academics. Upcoming topics include:
The European commission’s Intellectual Property (IP) Helpdesk regularly offers webinars to provide (potential) beneficiaries of EU-funded projects and EU SMEs involved in cross-border business activities with the best possible support enabling them to develop their own IP management strategies and processes. The webinars are offered free of charge and topics for April and May are already online available. … Continued
The Young Entrepreneurs in Science powered by the Falling Walls Foundation offers various workshops and events tailored to PhDs and postdocs of all disciplines as well as early-career researchers and academic staff to help you to discover your entrepreneurial skills. What do you associate with the topic of entrepreneurship? What enables you to become an entrepreneur yourself? … Continued
The GMP Academy is offering virtual GMB basic courses in the first half of 2025 in German and in English:
Are you wondering what comes next after your postdoc? The talk series “Beyond the Postdoc” organized by the German Postdoc Network offers insights into diverse career opportunities beyond postdoctoral research. The talks take place online via Zoom over lunchtime (13-14h).
Upcoming talks:
The new call for the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) was scheduled to open on 9 April 2025 but is now postponed to open on 8 May 2025. Please note that the submission deadline will stay the same – 10 September 2024 (5pm Brussels time). … Continued
KoWi, the EU Liaison Office of the German Research Organisations, offers advice on all funding lines of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions for researchers, from application to implementation (project management). They offer individual counselling sessions, information events at universities and research institutions as well as Webinars and other virtual information and counselling services. … Continued
This prize by the German Association for Biomedical Technologies together with the Family Klee Foundation honors scientific projects in Biomedical Sciences that successfully transferred their genuine ideas to a medical engineering innovation. The award includes a prize money of 10.000 EUR. For further information see www.vde.com/de/dgbmt/preise-ehrungen/innovationspreis. … Continued
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has two postdoc research funding opportunites, which might be of particular interest for you.
The Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship supports postdoctoral researchers who want to join a lab outside of Germany to do their own research project with a duration of 6-24 months. … Continued
The Fast Forward Science competition, which is endowed with a total of €9,000, 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
The Rudolf Kaiser Foundation annually awards the Rudolf Kaiser Prize to a young scientist in experimental physics. The prize is intended to improve opportunities for young experimental physicists who are about to establish themselves in academia.
Eligible candidates must have outstanding scientific achievements, but cannot yet hold a professorship. They must have several publication,one of which is particularly remarkable. … Continued
The newly-established Max Planck Postdoc Program bundles open postdoc positions in all Max Planck Institutes to provide talented early career researchers with a range of attractive opportunities to advance their careers in science. Contracts are guaranteed for three years at least and you will have access to a targeted mentoring program, career workshops (academia, … 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
With the Add-on Fellowships for Interdisciplinary Science and Transfer the Joachim Herz Foundation supports scientists from the fields of engineering, economics and life sciences who are working on innovative, interdisciplinary research projects. Funded are conference visits, research stays or acquisition of special aids (e.g. hardware or software), data acquisition or collection, … Continued
The University of Kassel in cooperation with the European Liaison Office of the German Research Organisations (KoWi) offers an online introduction seminar on how to successfully apply for ERC Starting Grant and Consolidator Grant. The event takes place on Wednesday, 28 May 2025, between 10:00-11:00h.
In this open-to-all informational event you will learn more about the funding scheme and get some insights into the application procedure. … Continued
The Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation awards up to five Research Fellowships each year to support the research of young scientists in the field of physics.
100,000€ are awarded for a duration of 2 years to outstanding early-career-researchers. The funds can be freely used for research activities, but not for one’s own salary. … Continued
Maria Leptin/EMBO Science Journalism Fellowships are aimed at bioscientists who wish to pursue a career in science journalism and journalists who want to deepen and broaden their knowledge of the latest research areas and technologies. Fellows receive stipends for 2-12 months to fund their stays in media outlets of any type, editorials offices or research institutions that make the fellows advance in their careers as science journalists. … Continued
The Lower Saxony Impulse Professorship addresses high-performing academics approaching the end of their early career phase (max. 10 years after completion of PhD). The goal is to support universities in the state of Lower Saxony in their efforts to attract and retain early career researchers and consolidate Lower Saxony as a science location. … Continued
The Applied Photonics Award is a prize for the promotion of young researchers for theses that are particularly relevant in the field of applied photonics. The award is organized by the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF in Jena. The institute has been conducting application-oriented research in the field of photonics for over 30 years and develops innovative optical systems for controlling light. … Continued
EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships support excellent postdoctoral researchers in laboratories throughout Europe and the world for a period of up to two years. International exchange is a key requirement. The fellowship includes a salary or stipend, a relocation allowance and support for fellows with children. The career development is further supported by the EMBO Laboratory Leadership course and networking through the global network of EMBO Fellows. … Continued
The Peter und Traudl Engelhorn Stiftung is annually awarding 2-year Postdoc Scholarships to outstanding junior scientists in life sciences (e.g. Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Genetics, Proteomics, System Biology, BioMedTech, Biotechnology, BioInformatics, Biophysics).
Usually seven scholarships (TVÖD E13) are awarded each year. The completion date of the doctoral thesis cannot be more than 4 years agao. … Continued
KoWi-Talk is the podcast for the KoWi community on interesting topics from the EU Framework Program for Research and Innovation and with extensive insights into the work of KoWis.
For a selection of podcast in English and German see below. For an archive of all podcasts episodes click here: https://kowi-talk-podcast.podigee.io/episodes … 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 Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development Organisation (pRED) of Roche in Basel is looking for PhD students for a nine-month internship position. Applicants need to have experience in cell culture, preferably with pluripotent cells and ideally have some prior work experience with hiPSC culture and stem cell research.
Apply as soon as possible for an opportunity to get exposed to the hiring procedure and learn about pharma ways of working. … Continued
The Federal Ministry of Education and Research annually publishes a report on Early Career Researchers. You can find the full report here (in German) or key findings here (in English).
The German Postdoc Network has analysed the key findings of the report and for their conclusions and summary see here. … Continued