The registration for methods and professional skills courses held in July 2025 will be open from 1 May 2025. Please check the updated overviews of Methods and Professional Skills courses.
You can register from 1-20 May online via Stud.IP for courses taking place in July; … Continued
We’re happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Impulse Session, this time with Dr. Franziska Rathjens, Director of Global Pharmacovigilance & Patient Safety at B.Braun in Melsungen.
Join us for an insightful session with Franziska, where she will explore diverse career paths in the pharmaceutical industry, focusing on Pharmacovigilance and touching on Quality Management and Regulatory Affairs. … Continued
As a postdoc or (early-career) researcher, increasing productivity, writing strong proposals, and managing scientific projects efficiently are essential skills — especially when it comes to securing research funding.
To support you in these endeavours, The Research and Transfer Services invites you to our two-day live online training series with three interactive sessions designed to enhance your scientific workflow using AI tools:
🔹 “Next Level Productivity with AI Assistants: Transform Your Scientific Workflow.”🔹 “Next Level Scientific (Grant) Writing Using AI Assistants”🔹 “Next Level Scientific Project Management (for Grant Writing)”
Who can participate? … Continued
On behalf of the WoCaNet 2025 team we invite you to two online talks leading up to this year’s Women’s Careers & Networks Symposium:
Dr. Emma Robinson (Head of Biomedical Computing Research Group, King’s College London) on 9 May at 12:00 CET:A leader in computational neuroscience, Emma Robinson’s pioneering work in brain imaging and AI is shaping the future of neurological research. … Continued
The 9th Women’s Careers and Networks (WoCaNet) symposium will take place on 4 – 5 June 2025 at the MPI Faßberg Campus in Göttingen! Bachelors, Masters, PhD students and Postdocs are very welcome. WoCaNet’s vision is to empower women and non-binary individuals across all fields of study, and this year’s symposium will be hosted at the MPI Faßberg Campus (Göttingen). … Continued
We are delighted to announce that registration for Horizons in Molecular Biology Symposium 2025 is now open. This year’s symposium will take place from 8–11 September 2025 at the MPI-NAT, Faßberg Campus in Göttingen.
The symposium starts on 8 September with a Career fair event where experts from outside academia to share their career path are welcomed. … Continued
Call for Applications
Are you an undergraduate, master’s, or PhD student passionate about Artificial Intelligence, Sustainable Development and Climate Change? Do you want to showcase your ideas and solutions for a sustainable future?
The European Universities Competition on Artificial Intelligence to Promote Sustainable Development and Address Climate Change is calling young minds from Europe to participate in this prestigious competition and contribute to shaping a more sustainable world. … Continued
For those who are interested in learning Python. The university offers various courses on Python that PhD students may join:
Wieder, Philip – 502662 / Einführung in Python für Data Scientists Presence Summer semester
Nobach, Holger – 536420 / Programmieren in Python Presence Summer semester
Geil, Burkhard – … Continued
Funding for open access books
We would like to remind you of the existing funding opportunities for Open Access books. In addition to funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG), funding is available until February 2027 via the Lower Saxony-wide publication fund NiedersachsenOPEN. Only publication costs for the publishing in Open Access are eligible for funding. … Continued
The Max Planck Society opened a new postdoc program to offer postdoc positions to early career researchers. Applications are possible twice per year, from 1 March and 1 September – open for six weeks.
The program offers you a for example those special benefits:
Infors hier: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/696100.html
Dienstag, 18.15 Uhr – Aula am Wilhelmsplatz
DatumReferent*in / EinrichtungThema22.04Prof. Dr. Arne SchirrmacherHumboldt-Universität zu BerlinWarum Göttingen? – Eine unheroische Geschichte der Quantenmechanik29.04.Prof. Dr. Stefan KehreinUniversität GöttingenQuantenmechanik: Von der mathematischen Struktur zu Fragen der Interpretation06.05.Prof. Dr. Michael WalterRuhr-Universität BochumMit Quanten rechnen: Von den Grundlagen des Quantencomputing zu den Algorithmen der Zukunft13.05.Prof. … Continued
In accordance with the PersDatO (privacy regulations of the University), as of January 2024, GAUSS (incl. GGNB) will switch to using the student e-mail address (…@stud.uni-goettingen.de) for all communication with doctoral students.
All doctoral students have been informed prior to the change, and are already asked to regularly check their student e-mail or preferably integrate it in their e-mail client. … Continued
The programme of the Graduate Academy (GRADE) of Goethe University Frankfurt is intended as a general introduction to the topic of “Good Academic Practice during Doctoral Studies” for doctoral students.
With six modules, it forms a mixed form of clearly prepared information, optional links to deepen the understanding of individual terms and test questions. … Continued
In educating and training junior scientists, the University is aiming to ensure the prevention of scientific misconduct, offer advice, help investigating cases of suspected violation of rules, and arbitrate cases of unclear authorship or other disputes.
Thus, in accordance with the binding GAUSS doctoral degree regulations of the math-nat. Faculties (§6 (2)) all doctoral students have to attend an official seminar on Good Scientific Practice (ideally) in the first year of their PhD. … Continued
The Centre for Statistics of the University of Göttingen offers courses and consulting services in statistical questions for all Göttingen PhD students.
The service comprises in particular consultation on data collection, statistical modelling and statistical inference.
If you are interested in 1-to-1 statistical consulting or further information about the service please follow this link. … Continued
Important rules for course registration. … Continued
Do you know, that each GAUSS PhD-program has its own student representative(s)?
If not, you can find all representatives listed on the GAUSS webpage.
For each program, at least one program representative is appointed for a term of office of one year – reappointment is possible. The program representatives represent the doctoral students of their program at the annual meeting with the GAUSS Board. … Continued
Every GAUSS PhD student is affiliated with the University of Göttingen through their membership in one of the GAUSS porgrams and their mandatory matriculation at the University. No matter if you are pursuing your PhD at a department or institution of the University, the Göttingen Campus (MPI, DPZ,…) or external. The affiliation to the University of Göttingen has to be stated in every publication in that a GAUSS doctoral student is listed as an author! … Continued
Scholarships for doctoral students in all disciplines are awarded by the following foundations. Information on the scholarship providers and the application requirements can be found via the links.
Hans-Böckler-Stiftung https://www.boeckler.de/de/stipendium-fur-promovierende-2670.htm
Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung https://www.hss.de/stipendium/
Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung https://www.boell.de/de/stipendien
Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes https://www.studienstiftung.de/
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung https://www.fes.de/studienfoerderung
Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung https://www.freiheit.org/de/stipendien-fuer-promovierende-0
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung https://www.kas.de/de/web/begabtenfoerderung-und-kultur/bewerbung
Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung https://www.rosalux.de/stiftung/studienwerk/promotionsstipendium … Continued
We are delighted to introduce you to a feature on our GAUSS Career Service Webpage: a selection of Trainee Programs.
A trainee program is one option to start your career in industry and can be a great opportunity. As there are many in different sectors (e.g. Pharma, Chemical Industry, Consulting, Precision Engineering), … Continued
Every student is eligible to apply for a GAUSS emergency scholarship as long as this would help to finalize the doctoral research. … Continued
Since January 2021 the GAUSS Office sends automatic emails out of the GAUSS database to remind you of your next scheduled Thesis Advisory Committee (TAC) meeting and the approaching thesis submission deadline (in GGNB such reminder emails already exist for a long time).
As you know at least three TAC meetings and progress reports are mandatory during your doctoral studies within GAUSS (see RerNat-O 2018). … Continued
In case you are in need for professional help with personal/private/mental health problems. … Continued
The newest edition (2022) of the information brochure “An Orientation Framework for Good Scientific Practice” is available in English as well as in German.The brochure offers employees of the University and the University Medical Center guidance by formulating central standards of good scientific practice and explaining the ombuds system and its procedural paths at the University of Göttingen in a simple form. … Continued
Do you want to learn to program in Python but don’t know how to start?
The Gipp Lab and CIDAS have created a free YouTube course with short videos (2-10 minutes each) that teach you the basics of the Python programming language.
The 7 lessons will be published separately weekly on the CIDAS YouTube channel as well as within the OpenILIAS self-learning platform:
▶️ YouTube: https://t1p.de/Python_Course_YT
📖 ILIAS Course: … Continued
Online course on Data Visualisation in English by SUB.
The course “Bringing Data to the Point” provides a foundation in data visualisation and introduces visualisation forms, various tools and basic design rules that help to graphically present information and findings in an approachable way.
The course is available as an ILIAS learning module on StudIP and at the OpenILIAS-platform for non-members of the university. … Continued
