GAUSS Career Service Newsletter 09/2024
Due to a few organisational short-term changes over the upcoming weeks there won’t be any Career Counseling Sessions and CV/application checks over the next few weeks.
We will be back for you with the usual number of available slots from beginning of November. Please make sure to secure your slots for November either before 18th September or send us an email in the meantime (19 Sept – … Continued
First of all, we would like to thank all 128 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
We also would like to thank all 131 of you who completed this workshop survey! We are really delighted about the constructive feedback and are currently in the middle of finalizing the workshop program for next year, which we will publish in autumn. In the following you will find only a brief overview of the major results. … Continued
Inspired by the celebration of the Postdoc Appreciation Week in the USA and the UK, the PAW Germany coordination team invited researchers and research institutions, postdoc coordinators and research administrators all over Germany to create a special program, events and a social media campaign to honor the incredible work of postdocs!
This week is an acknowledgement of the fantastic contributions postdocs make towards research and academic life in general. … Continued
The German Postdoc Network (GPN) is an exciting development for researchers in Germany. This nationwide network will have its virtual kick-off on 17 September 2024 at 13:00 during Postdoc Appreciation Week (PAW2024). The Networks aim is to establish a robust platform enabling postdocs to represent their interests and positively impact their careers and well-being in Germany. … 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
We’re happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Impulse Session, this time with Dr. Lennart Mohnike, International Future Leadership Trainee at Bayer. In this session, Lennart will give some insights into his career start as “International Future Leadership Trainee” at Bayer AG. … Continued
Melissa Sollich and Romas Bielke from the Public Relations Department of Göttingen University are offering the online workshop “Introduction to Public Relations for Young Scientists” in cooperation with GAUSS and GGNB.
This workshop is designed for Postdocs and late-stage PhDs interested in the field of public relations and science communication. … Continued
The DFG offers a virtual Lunch&Learn event on 18 Sept 2024 from 12-13h to inform and answer questions about CVs for DFG research proposals.
In all DFG programmes, scientific CVs of the project leaders are part of the application. The review criterion “qualification of the applicant” is assessed by reviewers and committee members on the basis of these CVs. … 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 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 GMP Academy is offering two GMB basic courses in November 2024:
The registration fee for each course depends on your current status. … 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 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 coffee break format consists of three 30-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 Brussels-based Think-Tank Vocal Europe in cooperation with Brussels Academy offers trainings on EU Grants and Fundraising Trainings which aim at providing a thorough understanding of the essential knowledge and techniques about EU Grants and fundraising. Participants acquire hands-on experience and practical knowledge on how to write winning project proposal and how to implement and manage successfully obtained projects. … Continued
We would like to inform you that the new module directory of the cross-faculty key competencies for the winter term 2024/25 is now available on the key competency pages of the University of Göttingen.
On these pages you will find the module handbook with an overview of the decentrally offered interdisciplinary and interdepartmental key competence modules as well as the services of central institutions of the University of Göttingen. … Continued
After a very successful Research in Europe event in Göttingen in November 2023, you are warmly invited to the next edition on Thursday, 26 September 2024 from 9:00-16:30h at Kiel University (Christian-Albrechts-Platz 3, Lecture Hall 2 and 3).
Organised by the European Liaison Office of the German Research Organisations (KoWi) and the Kiel University, … Continued
In cooperation with the European Liaison Office of the German Research Organisations (KoWi) / National Contact Point ERC, the University of Kassel will host an online Master Class to present the upcoming ERC Consolidator Grant call (with a deadline on 14 January 2025) and to offer insights into the ERC CoG scheme, … Continued
If you are interested in the postdoc fellowship program Feodor Lynen by the Humboldt Foundation, then take this opportunity and join this online information event taking place on 24 September 2024. Find out more about the event and how to register here. … 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
ROSETTA, an innovative fellowship programme co-ordinated by the University of Galway, Ireland. The programme is co-funded by LERO, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, the Horizon Europe Marie Skodowska Curie Actions programme and the University of Galway.
ROSETTA will be recruiting 19 fellowships, … 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 Max Planck Society is currently looking for new Max Planck Research Group Leaders and is inviting applications from all scientists with a doctorate working in any field of research pursued in the organization to support emerging scholars early in their career path.
Successful candidates will lead their own independent Max Planck Research Group at a participating Max Planck Institute of their own choice for a period of six years. … Continued
At the beginning of each semester in April and October, the Volkswagen Foundation offers a free, one-hour live webinar in English on their funding portfolio.
The next webinar is scheduled for 23 October 2024, 9:30-10:30h.
Employees from the funding department will provide information on general funding, current calls for proposals and the process from application to project support. … Continued
Every two years the University Medical Centre (UMG) is inviting applications for the Margaret Maltby Mentoring Program. This program is offering young female scientists the opportunity to manage their careers successfully with mentoring; a combination of personal accompaniment by a female or male mentor, training and qualification as a person of leadership, … Continued
To encourage more scientists to translate their research, the BioInnovation Institute (BII) and Science Magazine present an annual award to recognize bold researchers who are asking fundamental questions at the intersection of the life sciences and entrepreneurship.
The three winners will have their essays published in Science magazine and will be invited into BII’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. … 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 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) and the Dutch Research Council (NWO) are pleased to announce a funding opportunity for joint Dutch-German research projects. The funding opportunity is planned as a three-year pilot for a joint Lead Agency Procedure with the NWO Domain Science.
Dutch-German research teams are invited to submit their joint research proposals within the scope of basic research in the remit of the NWO Domain Science (Astronomy, … Continued
The new funding scheme of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWF) called EXIST Transfer of Research supports outstanding research oriented projects that involve expensive and high-risk development. The funding is open to all topics and technologies.
The programme consists of two funding phases – … Continued
The Fritz Thyssen Foundation is currently focusing its support on the field of “Molecular causes in the development of illnesses”. This programme supports molecular biological studies of illnesses whose development is based on genetic defects or with which gene variants contribute to the development of complex illnesses.
In the area of “Molecular causes in the development of illnesses”, … 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 Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg (JMU) currently has an open position as scientific coordinator (full-time 100%, 13-TVL, temporary position for 2 years, extension for another 4 years is planned) to assist the tenure-track professors appointed to JMU as part of the federal-state program for the promotion of young scientists (WISNA)
Please apply by 17 September 2024. … Continued
The Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf (HHU) currently has an open position as science manager (65%, 13-TVL, temporary position for 2 years) to assist the Career Service team.
Please apply by 19 September 2024. For further details have a look at the job advert here. … Continued
The UN Young Professionals Programme (YPP) is a recruitment initiative for talented, highly qualified professionals to start a career as an international civil servant with the UN Secretariat. It consists of an entrance examination process and professional development once those who are successful start their career with the UN.
The YPP examination is held once a year in different subject areas, … Continued
We are happy to announce a talk and discussion round with Professor Jana Lasser on “Hierarchy and abuse of power: challenges in the scientific work environment” organised by Dorothea Schlözer Mentoring, GGNB, Göttingen Campus Postdoc Network, GAUSS Career Service
The event will take place on Thursday, … Continued
Are you part of the Göttingen Campus Postdoc community and do you meet our definition of a Postdoc? Then we are looking for your ideas, input, and energy to make the Göttingen Campus a better place for Postdocs. The deadline for applications is 31 October 2024.
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
… Continued
GAUSS Career Service Newsletter 08/2024
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 create a special program, events and a social media campaign to honor the incredible work of postdocs!
The week is an acknowledgement of the fantastic contributions postdocs make towards research and academic life in general. … Continued
The German Postdoc Network (GPN) is an exciting development for researchers in Germany.
The Volkswagen Foundation has approved funding under their “Pioneer Projects – Impetus for the German Research System” for the next three years to establish the network and firmly anchor its activities in the German scientific system. … Continued
We’re happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Impulse Session, this time with Dr. Farah Raad, senior scientist at Roche in Basel. In this session, Farah will talk about her postdoc and R&D career in industry as well as her experiences working for different companies and starting a new job with a young family. … 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: 9, 12, 16 and 19 September 2024, Duration: 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
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 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
We would like to inform you that the new module directory of the cross-faculty key competencies for the winter term 2024/25 is now available on the key competency pages of the University of Göttingen.
On these pages you will find the module handbook with an overview of the decentrally offered interdisciplinary and interdepartmental key competence modules as well as the services of central institutions of the University of Göttingen. … Continued
Melissa Sollich and Romas Bielke from the Public Relations Department of Göttingen University are offering the online workshop “Introduction to Public Relations for Young Scientists” in cooperation with GAUSS and GGNB.
This workshop is designed for Postdocs and late-stage PhDs interested in the field of public relations and science communication. … Continued
The Brussels-based Think-Tank Vocal Europe in cooperation with Brussels Academy offers trainings on EU Grants and Fundraising Trainings which aim at providing a thorough understanding of the essential knowledge and techniques about EU Grants and fundraising. Participants acquire hands-on experience and practical knowledge on how to write winning project proposal and how to implement and manage successfully obtained projects. … Continued
The University of Göttingen set up a 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
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
In cooperation with the European Liaison Office of the German Research Organisations (KoWi) / National Contact Point ERC, the University of Kassel will host an ERC Consolidator Grant Master Class – online event to present the upcoming ERC Consolidator Grant call (with a tentative deadline in January 2025) and to offer insights into the ERC CoG scheme, … Continued
With the program “Pioneering Research – Exploring the Unknown Unknown“, the Volkswagen Foundation supports groundbreaking and risky research ideas with high scientific relevance. They are looking for basic research projects that are not dedicated to the already ‘known unknown’, but that strive to explore the ‘unknown unknown’ thereby holding the potential for major scientific breakthroughs, … Continued
The Klaus Tschira Boost Fund is a joint program by GSO and Klaus Tschira Stiftung offering flexible funding and career development to promote researchers in the Natural Sciences, Mathematics, and Computer Science. You can apply for flexible funding for up to 2 years for independent, explorative, risky and interdisciplinary projects. The program is aiming to support building collaborations and networks. … Continued
The Co-operative Research Programme (CRP)’s of the OECD has opened a call for applications for funding international events (such as conferences, workshops, congresses and symposia) and research fellowships grants.
Applicants must be residents in one of the countries participating in the Programme. Please click here … Continued
The new call for the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) is now open until 11 September 2024 (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
If you are interested in the postdoc fellowship program Feodor Lynen by the Humboldt Foundation, then take this opportunity and join this online information event taking place on 24 September 2024. Find out more about the event and how to register here. … 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
ROSETTA, an innovative fellowship programme co-ordinated by the University of Galway, Ireland. The programme is co-funded by LERO, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, the Horizon Europe Marie Skodowska Curie Actions programme and the University of Galway.
ROSETTA will be recruiting 19 fellowships, … 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 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
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
After a very successful Research in Europe event in Göttingen in November 2023, you are warmly invited to the next edition on Thursday, 26 September 2024 from 9:00-16:30h at Kiel University (Christian-Albrechts-Platz 3, Lecture Hall 2 and 3).
Organised by the European Liaison Office of the German Research Organisations (KoWi) and the Kiel University, … Continued
To encourage more scientists to translate their research, the BioInnovation Institute (BII) and Science Magazine present an annual award to recognize bold researchers who are asking fundamental questions at the intersection of the life sciences and entrepreneurship.
The three winners will have their essays published in Science magazine and will be invited into BII’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. … Continued
The Fritz Thyssen Foundation is currently focusing its support on the field of “Molecular causes in the development of illnesses”. This programme supports molecular biological studies of illnesses whose development is based on genetic defects or with which gene variants contribute to the development of complex illnesses.
In the area of “Molecular causes in the development of illnesses”, … Continued
The new funding scheme of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWF) called EXIST Transfer of Research supports outstanding research oriented projects that involve expensive and high-risk development. The funding is open to all topics and technologies.
The programme consists of two funding phases – … Continued
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) and the Dutch Research Council (NWO) are pleased to announce a funding opportunity for joint Dutch-German research projects. The funding opportunity is planned as a three-year pilot for a joint Lead Agency Procedure with the NWO Domain Science.
Dutch-German research teams are invited to submit their joint research proposals within the scope of basic research in the remit of the NWO Domain Science (Astronomy, … Continued
The University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) currently has an open position as coordinator for Academic Career Development (full-time 100%, 13-TVL, temporary position for 1 year).
Please apply by 18 August 2024. For further details have a look at the job advert here. … Continued
The Leuphana University Lüneburg currently has an open position as coordinator for the Tenure Track Programme (part-time 75%, 13-TVL, temporary for 3 years).
Please apply by 26 August 2024. For further details have a look at the job advert here. … Continued
Heidelberg University currently has an open position in HR development of the Dual Career Service (50%, 13-TVL, temporary until 31 Aug 2025).
Please apply by 30 August 2024. For further details have a look at the job advert here. … Continued
The Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg (JMU) currently has an open position as scientific coordinator (full-time 100%, 13-TVL, temporary position for 2 years, extension for another 4 years is planned) to assist the tenure-track professors appointed to JMU as part of the federal-state program for the promotion of young scientists (WISNA)
Please apply by 17 September 2024. … Continued
The UN Young Professionals Programme (YPP) is a recruitment initiative for talented, highly qualified professionals to start a career as an international civil servant with the UN Secretariat. It consists of an entrance examination process and professional development once those who are successful start their career with the UN.
The YPP examination is held once a year in different subject areas, … Continued
Are you part of the Göttingen Campus Postdoc community and do you meet our definition of a Postdoc? Then we are looking for your ideas, input, and energy to make the Göttingen Campus a better place for Postdocs. The deadline for applications is 31 October 2024.
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
… Continued
GAUSS Career Service Newsletter 07/2024
The GAUSS Career Service Office will not close for summer holidays this year as we are taking turns in being off work. However, we will reduce the career counselling appointments in July and August with no further sessions available until mid-August. Therefore if you require support in this regard within the next 6 weeks, … Continued
Are you part of the Göttingen Campus Postdoc community and do you meet our definition of a Postdoc? Then we are looking for your ideas, input, and energy to make the Göttingen Campus a better place for Postdocs. The deadline for applications is 31 October 2024.
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
… Continued
We’re happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Impulse Session, this time with Dr. Jeremy Vachier, data scientist at AstraZeneca in Stockholm (Sweden). In this session, Jeremy will talk about his journey from science to data science. He will give insights on his transition and the skills required for a successful career in data science. … Continued
We’re happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Impulse Session, this time with Dr. Farah Raad, senior scientist at Roche in Basel. In this session, Farah will talk about her postdoc and R&D career in industry as well as her experiences working for different companies and starting a new job with a young family. … 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: 9, 12, 16 and 19 September 2024, Duration: 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
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 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 interview is an important part of the ERC evaluation process and during this Interview Trainings Consolidator Grants, participants learn how the ERC National Contact Point (NCP) can support them in this process. The ERC NCP Germany is once again organising interview training sessions for Consolidator Grants, which are offered for applicants from all three domains (PE, … 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
In cooperation with the European Liaison Office of the German Research Organisations (KoWi) / National Contact Point ERC, the University of Kassel will host an ERC Consolidator Grant Master Class – online event to present the upcoming ERC Consolidator Grant call (with a tentative deadline in January 2025) and to offer insights into the ERC CoG scheme, … Continued
The FDM-NDS is announcing the FAIR Data and Software Award Lower Saxony 2024 for the first time! This is your chance for recognition and a prize of €3,000!
Published datasets and software that adhere to the FAIR principles or the FAIR4ResearchSoftware principles can be entered in the competition.
The deadline to submit entries is 4 August 2024! … 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.In addition to the stay abroad, … 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
With the program “Pioneering Research – Exploring the Unknown Unknown“, the Volkswagen Foundation supports groundbreaking and risky research ideas with high scientific relevance. They are looking for basic research projects that are not dedicated to the already ‘known unknown’, but that strive to explore the ‘unknown unknown’ thereby holding the potential for major scientific breakthroughs, … Continued
The Co-operative Research Programme (CRP)’s of the OECD has opened a call for applications for funding international events (such as conferences, workshops, congresses and symposia) and research fellowships grants.
Applicants must be residents in one of the countries participating in the Programme. Please click here … Continued
The new call for the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) is now open until 11 September 2024 (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 Klaus Tschira Boost Fund is a joint program by GSO and Klaus Tschira Stiftung offering flexible funding and career development to promote researchers in the Natural Sciences, Mathematics, and Computer Science. You can apply for flexible funding for up to 2 years for independent, explorative, risky and interdisciplinary projects. The program is aiming to support building collaborations and networks. … Continued
If you are interested in the postdoc fellowship program Feodor Lynen by the Humboldt Foundation, then take this opportunity and join this online information event taking place on 24 September 2024. Find out more about the event and how to register here. … 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
ROSETTA, an innovative fellowship programme co-ordinated by the University of Galway, Ireland. The programme is co-funded by LERO, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, the Horizon Europe Marie Skodowska Curie Actions programme and the University of Galway.
ROSETTA will be recruiting 19 fellowships, … 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 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 Medical University in Hannover (MHH) is currently advertising a position as VerwertungsmanagerIn (Exploitation Manager) at “TWINCORE – Center for experimental and clinical infection research“.
The part-time (50%) position is offered initially for 2 years. For further details see the job advert here (in German): https://mhh.hr4you.org/job/view/2476/verwertungsmanagerin-w-d-m?page_lang=de
As the job title might be not very self-explanatory – … Continued
BASF in Ludwigsburg is aiming to fill the position as Labhead F&E High-Throughput Technology & Lab Automation (m/w/d). Please check out the details via this link. One of our alumni is working there and sent us this job opening. … Continued
GAUSS Career Service Newsletter 05/2024
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? In this workshop, … Continued
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshop “How to get into the non-academic job market” by Dr Philippa Cook.
For postdoctoral researchers with an international background, it can be a real challenge to get into Germany’s non-academic job market following an academic position. The entry routes into jobs are not always transparent, … Continued
We’re happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Impulse Sessions, this time with Dr. Thomas Danz, senior consultant at Senacor Technologies AG.
In this session, Thomas will talk about his personal motivation for leaving academia, give insights on his work and other potential roles for trained scientists at Senacor, and reflect on the skill set required for a successful career in consulting. … Continued
It is very common to be unsure about your next career step either at the end of your PhD or also during your postdoc phase. Our goal is to facilitate your career planning and assist you in handling challenges in your current work environment. We are aiming to enable you to reflect on your options and decide about your next career steps or activities to overcome challenges. … Continued
The 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
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 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 next 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:
- Tuesday, 18 June (North Campus) and Wednesday, 19 June (Central Campus) from 11:00 to 16:00
- Find Internships &
… 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
Do you want to kick-start your career in Life Sciences industry? Do you want to get a better grasp of business topics, understand the success factors of Life Sciences companies and learn more about the different roles outside academia?
The next edition of the successful BioBusiness Summer School is taking place from 24 – … Continued
Are you looking for a job (or internship) in life sciences? Then, the career fair ScieCon is the right place for you! At ScieCon, you can get in touch with company representatives from life science industries and learn about internship and entry-level opportunities! There will also be a broad supporting program including application photo shoots. … Continued
On 28-29 June 2024, the conference EuroSTEMPeers 2024 will take place in Heidelberg . This event is oraganized by the European chapter of an NGO called STEMPeers, which enables STEM graduates to access a global network of STEM professionals for mentoring, empowerment, growth and support in their professional careers. … Continued
The Landeskonferenz der Gleichstellungsbeauftragten in Baden-Württemberg (HAW/DHBW) is offering an in-person workshop (in German!) on how to apply for a HAW professorship.
… Continued
The ERC National Contact Point (NCP ERC) supports ERC Starting Grant candidates with 12 online trainings in preparing for their interview.
In individual training sessions (Part II), candidates are provided with a simulated interview experience. Each candidate will present in front of the mock panel and rehearse the Q&A session for approximately 30 minutes. … 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.
In this informational event you will learn more about the funding scheme and get some insights into the application procedure. … 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 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
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 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 European Centre for Advanced Studies has initiated the Lower-Saxony-Scotland Tandem Fellowship Programme to foster innovative research collaborations and academic exchanges between Lower Saxony and Scotland for postdocs or PhD researchers.
The programme places great emphasis on promoting internationalisation and fostering competence development. It facilitates cross-border cooperation in science and research, … 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
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. Applicants should be less than 34 years of age. … Continued
The new call for the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) is now open until 11 September 2024 (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 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
We cordially invite you to the award ceremony of the start-up competition LIFT-OFF University of Göttingen on 23.05.2024 from 6.00 to 8.00 pm in the Alte Mensa Göttingen (admission from 5.30 pm).
The start-up competition LIFT-OFF is aimed at people interested in starting a business and active founders from all disciplines. Students, … Continued
The WZB (Berlin Social Science Center) is hosting a series of webinars around the topic “The Academic Labor Market“.
The 45 minutes webinars will be held every other week on Monday at 13:00h. The sessions will be recorded and published as podcast here. … Continued
GAUSS Career Service Newsletter 06/2024
We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service online 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.
Dates: Tuesday, 16 July 2024Duration: 9:00-17:00hLocation: online via ZoomTrainer: Neela Enke
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 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: 9, 12, 16 and 19 September 2024, Duration: 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
The GAUSS Career Service Office will not close for summer holidays this year as we are taking turns in being off work. However, we will reduce the available career counselling appointments from mid-July to beginning of August. Therefore if you require support in this regard, email us as soon as possible to arrange your slot. … Continued
The next 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:
- Tuesday, 18 June (North Campus) and Wednesday, 19 June (Central Campus) from 11:00 to 16:00
- Find Internships &
… 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 Hochschule Ravensberg-Weingarten is organising an online info event in German on how to apply for a HAW Professorship.
Information on appointment requirements, appointment procedures and support on the path to a professorship will be provided. RWU professors talk about their path to a professorship and give exciting insights into their profession. … Continued
Are you looking for a job (or internship) in life sciences? Then, the career fair ScieCon is the right place for you! At ScieCon, you can get in touch with company representatives from life science industries and learn about internship and entry-level opportunities! There will also be a broad supporting program including application photo shoots. … Continued
On 28-29 June 2024, the conference EuroSTEMPeers 2024 will take place in Heidelberg . This event is oraganized by the European chapter of an NGO called STEMPeers, which enables STEM graduates to access a global network of STEM professionals for mentoring, empowerment, growth and support in their professional careers. … 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 various online trainings in the coming months:
The registration fee for each course depends on your current status. … Continued
The Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) and the LMU Open Science Center are organising a hybrid 5-day Open Science Summer School on 9 – 13 September 2024 to allow early career researchers of any scientific discipline to gain more trust in the research that they do, and make it as credible, … 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!
Read more: Jobvector Career Day for natural scientists, … 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
There will be a virtual information event on 18 June 2024 (9-11h) about the “GO-Bio Next” funding initiative of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Representatives of the project managers organization VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH will provide information on important details and give practical advice for submitting an application. … 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 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 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. Applicants should be less than 34 years of age. … Continued
The FDM-NDS is announcing the FAIR Data and Software Award Lower Saxony 2024 for the first time! This is your chance for recognition and a prize of €3,000!
Published datasets and software that adhere to the FAIR principles or the FAIR4ResearchSoftware principles can be entered in the competition.
The deadline to submit entries is 4 August 2024! … 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.In addition to the stay abroad, … 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
With the program “Pioneering Research – Exploring the Unknown Unknown“, the Volkswagen Foundation supports groundbreaking and risky research ideas with high scientific relevance. They are looking for basic research projects that are not dedicated to the already ‘known unknown’, but that strive to explore the ‘unknown unknown’ thereby holding the potential for major scientific breakthroughs, … Continued
The new call for the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) is now open until 11 September 2024 (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 Co-operative Research Programme (CRP)’s of the OECD has opened a call for applications for funding international events (such as conferences, workshops, congresses and symposia) and research fellowships grants.
Applicants must be residents in one of the countries participating in the Programme. Please click here to find general information on the country’s research institutes and universities. … Continued
ROSETTA, an innovative fellowship programme co-ordinated by the University of Galway, Ireland. The programme is co-funded by LERO, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, the Horizon Europe Marie Skodowska Curie Actions programme and the University of Galway.
ROSETTA will be recruiting 19 fellowships, … 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 WZB (Berlin Social Science Center) is hosting webinars around the topic “The Academic Labor Market“. The upcoming 45 minutes event will be held on Monday, 17th June 2024 at 13:00h in German: “Gleichstellung und/oder Diversität” by Prof. Dr. Angela Ittel, TU Braunschweig. The sessions will be recorded and published as podcast here. … Continued
GAUSS Career Service Newsletter 04/2024
We’re happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Impulse Sessions, this time with Dr. Thomas Kotzott, patent engineer / patent attorney candidate at Seemann & Partner.
In this Career Impulse Session, Thomas will give an insight into the world of intellectual property, how to become a patent attorney and why this may be an interesting career path for scientists. … 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? In this workshop, … 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 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
The Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden is organising a series of online info events in German on how to apply for a HAW Professorship especially concerning the required application documents.
The virtual coffee break format consists of three 30-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
On 29 April 29, ENLIGHT RISE offers a virtual Matchmaking Event to bring together researchers and R&I support office people from all ten ENLIGHT partner universities.
The focus will be on matchmaking tools available to ENLIGHT researchers and pitching sessions for setting up research collaborations. If you are looking for partners to establish an ENLIGHT Thematic Network or submit a joint funding proposal, … Continued
ENLIGHT is an alliance of ten European universities, including the University of Göttingen, aiming to transform higher education and empower learners as globally engaged citizens. Together they seek to implement joint strategies for innovation in research and teaching. ENLIGHT is focused on six global challenges: Health and well-being, Digital revolution and Impact of digitalization, … 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
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 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
Are you looking for a job (or internship) in life sciences? Then, the career fair ScieCon is the right place for you! At ScieCon, you can get in touch with company representatives from life science industries and learn about internship and entry-level opportunities! There will also be a broad supporting program including application photo shoots. … Continued
The GMP Academy is offering various online trainings in the coming months:
… 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.
In this informational event you will learn more about the funding scheme and get some insights into the application procedure. … Continued
The new call for the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) is now open until 11 September 2024 (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 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
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 2 May 2024 (4pm UK time).
The total funds for the fellowships are £ 9 million and the maximium award is £ 500k. … Continued
For Women in Science Germany promotes four female early-career scientists working in Germany each year with an award worth 25,000 Euros. In Germany, the partners are the German Commission for UNESCO, L’Oréal Deutschland and the German Humboldt Network (from 2006 until 2022, the Christiane Nüsslein Volhard Foundation had been a partner). In an innovative tripartite partnership, … 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 9 May 2024, 5:00 p.m. The fellowship – 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 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
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
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
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 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
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. Applicants should be less than 34 years of age. … 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 WZB (Berlin Social Science Center) is hosting a series of webinars around the topic “The Academic Labor Market“.
The 45 minutes webinars will be held every other week on Monday at 13:00h. The sessions will be recorded and published as podcast here. … Continued
GAUSS Career Service Newsletter 03/2024
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
- Representatives from companies – find out how to apply or what they are looking for
- Experts from the Campus to ask about a range of issues such as
- applying for grant-funding,
… Continued
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.
Check out the job advert here. … 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.
Read more: Award for innovation in medical technology by “Family Klee Foundation” (apply by 30 April 2024)
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.
Check out the job advert here. … 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.
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
GAUSS Career Service Newsletter 02/2024
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!
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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:
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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:
- Strategic Preparation and Network Building for Involvement in Horizon Europe: Thursday,
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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
GAUSS Career Service Newsletter 01/2024
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!
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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 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 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:
- Precision measurements in fundamental research in the fields of physics, chemistry and medicine.
- Precision measurements in applied metrology in the fields of physics,
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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:
- Purpose: To support highly qualified junior scientists to pursue projects at renowned international research institutions (oncology)
- Duration: 2 years
- Type of Funding: Stipend,
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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
