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
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
A trainee program is one option to start your career in industry and can be a great opportunity. As there are many in different sectors (e.g. Pharma, Chemical Industry, Consulting, Precision Engineering), we collated nearly 50 and listed them on this webpage categorised by industry and all with a short profile. At all these companies, alumni of GAUSS/GGNB are employed. … Continued
Come along and join us for the next Postdoc Support and Information Fair, which will take place today on 14 March 2024 from 14:30 to 17:30h in the Physics Building. See the Postdoc Fair Webpage with information on stalls, guests and events. Chat with
We’re happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Impulse Sessions, this time Dr. Sung-Hui Yi, Research Scientist at Insempra.
Sung-Hui will provide insights into his role as research scientist in industry and especially about joining a start-up company after completing his PhD at the MPI-nat in the program IMPRS Molecular Biology. Join us for his interesting talk where you have afterwards the opportunity to engage in an interactive and informal discussion. … 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 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 German Scholars Organization offers 25 full fellowships for outstanding researchers of all disciplines who are ready for the next career step – as a junior group leader, assistant or full professor, founder of a startup or as a professional in a research-related organization or in industry.
The GSO Leadership Academy includes two live workshops with career trainings, … Continued
Over the past decade, science management has emerged as a professional field, providing interesting career prospects for today’s scientific researchers. The University is offering a 4-hour teaser workshop on science management for PhD students and postdocs who would like to explore the field and its career opportunities. The workshop will be held in German.
Dates: Tuesday, … Continued
The Dorothea Schlözer postdoctoral programme for women is addressed to female scientists and scholars in their early postdoctoral phase and is intended to promote female scientists and scholars on their way to a leading position in science. It replaced the Dorothea Schlözer scholarship programme in 2017.
As part of the programme, the university offers one position for female postdocs at the University Medical Center (UMG) in 2024 (TV-L 13, … Continued
The University of Bremen opened the call for a funding scheme especially interesting for young scientists who have just completed their doctorate but also for advanced postdocs candidates with the career goal professorship. For further details please see below or click this link. Applications are considered until 1 April 2024. … Continued
Lukas Schulte, a GGNB alumnus, has advertised a position at Boehringer Ingelheim in Biberach. The position is full time and supposed to start on 1 July 2024. Check out the job advert for the role as a Scientist Machine Learning here.
For questions about the job you can contact Lukas at lukas.schulte@boehringer-ingelheim.com. … 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 … Continued
Helmholtz Munich has advertised the position as Coordinator of the German Postdoc Network. The position (full time, initially for 3 years, E 13) is supposed to start on 1 June 2024.
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. … Continued
The Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried has advertised the position as Coordinator of the German Postdoc Network. The position (50% part-time, initially for 3 years, E 13) is supposed to start on 1 June 2024.
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.
In this informational event you will learn more about the funding scheme and get some insights into the application procedure. … Continued
The German Research Foundation (DFG) has launched a call for the second three-year funding period of Priority Programme “Machine Learning in Chemical Engineering. Knowledge Meets Data: Interpretability, Extrapolation, Reliability, Trust”.
This programme aims to advance chemical engineering (CE) and machine learning (ML) through research projects that combine the knowledge of experts from both communities. … 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 Liebig Fellowship provided by the Fonds of the Chemical Industry (FCI) is intended to promote the start of a university teaching career in the field of chemistry. The aim of the 3-year fellowship is to enable chemists with a PhD – as well as young scientists from related fields – … 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 European Liaison Office of the German Research Organisations now provides new information on German employment contracts for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) fellows. The English version of the template can be downloaded here:
Model_empoyment_contract_HE_MSCA_European_Fellowship_EN_02-241 … 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 14 March 2024 from 14:30 to 17:30h in the Physics Building. The Postdoc Fair Webpage will soon be updated with information on stalls, … Continued
We’re happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Impulse Sessions, this time with Dr. Adam Tomczak, Quality Manager at Ivoclar.
In the talk, Adam will explore the current regulatory landscape for medical devices and various roles life sciences graduates can assume in the industry.He will discuss transferable strengths of life science graduates and typical challenges they face when transitioning to those roles. … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career 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 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
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 online conference “KURSWECHSEL Online – Career Conference for Female Early Career Researchers” dedicated to empowering women in their strategic career planning outside Academia, will take place on 22 Februar 2024, 10-17h. This conference offers interesting panel discussion, online workshops and networking opportunities that help you to actively shape your personal career path. … 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!
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
The GMP Academy is offering various online trainings in the coming months:
KoWi (the European Liaison Office of the German Research Organisations) intends to shed light on different aspects of the proposal preparation process for collaborative projects in the thematic clusters of Horizon Europe through weekly, short introductory seminars. The aim of this mini-webinar series is to highlight specific elements of proposal preparations including:
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. This prestigious early career programme is geared towards high potential academics with 40-50% of the fellows securing a professorship within a few years after the fellowship. … Continued
The Fraunhofer Attract grant is the excellence stipend program of Fraunhofer. Fraunhofer Attract invites outstanding researchers to develop their ideas towards innovations at Fraunhofer.
An idea becomes an innovation, if it comes to use. The grant offers outstanding external scientists the opportunity to develop their ideas towards an actual application within an optimally equipped Fraunhofer institute operating close to the market. … Continued
The Department for Science and Technology of the Embassy of France in Germany wants to strengthenFranco-German cooperation in research and innovation by supporting researchs stays in France of juniorresearchers, which are members of a lab or a research institution located in Germany. All research areas are eligible for funding.
The mobility grant allows funding for a maximum stay of three months between May and December 2024. … 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 Dorothea Schlözer postdoctoral programme for women is addressed to female scientists and scholars in their early postdoctoral phase and is intended to promote female scientists and scholars on their way to a leading position in science. It replaced the Dorothea Schlözer scholarship programme in 2017.
As part of the programme, the university offers one position for female postdocs at the University Medical Center (UMG) in 2024 (TV-L 13, … Continued
The University of Bremen opened the call for a funding scheme especially interesting for young scientists who have just completed their doctorate but also for advanced postdocs candidates with the career goal professorship. For further details please see below or click this link. Applications are considered until 1 April 2024. … 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 Liebig Fellowship provided by the Fonds of the Chemical Industry (FCI) is intended to promote the start of a university teaching career in the field of chemistry. The aim of the 3-year fellowship is to enable chemists with a PhD – as well as young scientists from related fields – … 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 University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine in Tübingen is looking for an Academic Assistant for Scientific Project Management for the Institute of Medical Genetics and Applied Genomics. The position (70-100% part or full time, initially on a temporary basis as parental leave replacement with the option of extension) starts on 1 April 2024. … Continued
After several years it is time again to dig a bit deeper in our newsletter subscription list and therefore you will receive today another email from the GAUSS Career Service, which we would kindly ask you to NOT ignore but to read to make sure you are receiving this newsletter also in the future. … Continued
We’re happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Impulse Session, this time with Dr. Mandy Mong-Quyen Mai from CSL Plasma, Göttingen. Further information will follow soon.
Mandy will provide insights into her field of work, sharing her personal experiences and perspectives. Following her talk, you will have the opportunity to engage in an interactive and informal discussion. … 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 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’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 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
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
From 20-26 July 2024 the Merck Innovation Cup summer camp will take place near Frankfurt, Germany. Join the students and young professionals from all over the world to meet at the Merck KGaA company headquarters to learn from professionals, network, develop business plans and win the €20,000 Innovation Cup. … Continued
The GMP Academy is offering various online trainings in the coming months:
The registration fee for each course depends on your current status. … Continued
On 1 February 2024, the Federal Foreign Office will host the 19th International Organizations Career Fair in the online format. In the event you can find out about activities and career opportunities in direct contact with representatives of around 60 organizations and institutions at virtual exhibition stands, in panels, in live discussion forums and other formats. … Continued
The SUB Göttingen offers an online GRO.publications training courses in English on 16 February 2024 from 10-11:30h. This training introduces GRO.publications, the publication management system of the University of Göttingen. The system can be used to manage personal publication lists, but also lists of projects, working groups and organizational units. In addition, … Continued
The online conference “KURSWECHSEL Online – Career Conference for Female Early Career Researchers” dedicated to empowering women in their strategic career planning outside Academia, will take place on 22 Februar 2024, 10-17h. This conference offers interesting panel discussion, online workshops and networking opportunities that help you to actively shape your personal career path. … Continued
The jobvector career day is Europe´s biggest career fair for Natural Scientists, Physicians, Engineers, and Computer Scientists where you can receive valuable information for a successful career! Be inspired by talks of top companies and recruiters. Seize your chance and personally contact them at the fair!
The 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 Liebig fellowship provided by the Fonds of the Chemical Industry (FCI) is intended to promote the start of a university teaching career in the field of chemistry. The aim of the 3-year fellowship is to enable chemists with a PhD – as well as young scientists from related fields – … Continued
The Helmholtz Prize 2024 is awarded by the Helmholtz Fund e.V. for extraordinary achievement in the field of precision measurement in the following two categories:
The Fritz Thyssen Foundation supports your research via different funding opportunities in the fields of biomedicine, humanities and social sciences.
You can apply either for research projects with a limited time frame (apply by 1 Feb 2024), for organizing small research conferences (apply by 28 Feb 2024) or – … Continued
The Schering Stiftung awards the Friedmund Neumann Prize to young scientists for outstanding basic research in human biology, organic chemistry or human medicine. The prize is directed at young scientists who have completed their dissertation and have already developed a distinctive scientific profile. The award aims to make visible excellent scientific achievement and thus help the prize winners establish themselves in their field of research. … Continued
The next call for the Mildred-Scheel-Postdoc Program by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until 21 February 2024. This postdoctoral funding scheme is providing young doctors and natural scientists the opportunity to carry out projects in clinically oriented oncological basic research or clinical cancer research at renowned institutions abroad.
The funding scheme at a glance:
The next call for the Max-Eder Junior Research Group by the Deutsche Krebshilfe is open until 21 February 2024.
Aiming at highly qualified young oncologists (physicians during or after the specialist training as well as scientists with an explicit clinic-oriented orientation of the project), this funding scheme is supporting them in establishing their own independent working group and further developing their scientific career. … Continued
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. This prestigious early career programme is geared towards high potential academics with 40-50% of the fellows securing a professorship within a few years after the fellowship. … 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
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 Junior Scientist and International Researcher Center (JUNO) of the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf currently has an open position as scientific coordinator of the Qualification Program (75%, 13-TVL, temporary for 2 years with the possibility for a permanent contract afterwards). The position will start on 1 May 2024.
Please apply by 20 January 2024. … Continued
A GGNB alumnus has advertised a position for his team at ZEISS in Jena. It is initially a temporary parental leave replacement for someone who has an affinity for microscopy and biology. Knowledge of German is desirable, but not essential. It is certainly also a good option for starting a career in industry or at ZEISS. … Continued