Dear reader,

welcome to the March issue of the monthly GAUSS newsletter with information from the GAUSS Office including courses and events organised by GAUSS. Furthermore, the newsletter contains information about workshops and events offered by partners at the Göttingen Campus and additional information that might be of interest for doctoral students in Göttingen. For more information about each topic, please follow the links below.

Some of the events or seminars are advertised in German as the language during the events or workshops will be German. Feel free to forward this email to other interested students. If you do not want to receive information like this again, please let us know and we will remove you from the mailing list.

All the best,
Judith & Dirk

GAUSS Office

Call for course registrations – June 2024

The registration for methods and professional skills courses held in June 2024 will be open from 1 April 2024. You can register from 1-20 April online via Stud.IP for courses taking place in June; the slots will be allocated around 25 April. Read more

New student representatives in the GAUSS Board – term 2024/25

The new student representatives of GAUSS for the next one-year term from 01 April 2024 were appointed. Greg Weiler, PhD student of the Faculty of Mathematics and Coumputer Science in the program Mathematical Sciences, takes over the position as GAUSS student representative. Rhythm Bharti, PhD student of the Molecular Biology program of GGNB takes the position as deputy to support Greg. Read more

GAUSS Career Impulse Session with Dr. Sung-Hui Yi (Research Scientist at Insempra): “Translate central dogma to metabolic engineering” (5 Apr 2024, in-person!)

We’re happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Impulse Session, this time with 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 … Read more

[in German] Event: Fokus Wissenschaftsmanagement - Wer macht was und mit wem? (30 Mai 2024)

Die Göttinger Graduiertenschulen laden alle Interessierten herzlich zu einem öffentlichen Informations- und Vernetzungsevent ein. Mit einem Impulsvortrag von Dr. Oliver Grewe, ​Förderreferent VW-Stiftung & Mitautor von „Wissenschaftsmanagement im Beruf“​... Read more

Workshops and Events

Webinar: Regulatory Affairs (4 Apr 2024)

We would like to draw your attention to a webinar on Regulatory Affairs that will take place online on 4 April 2024. During this free of charge training session you can learn about the job as Regulatory Affairs Manager and what it has to offer. Read more

Workshop: "Presentation Skills for Science and Research" (5 & 8 Apr 2024 online and 29 & 30 Apr in presence)

There are some places for the following workshop left: Presentation Skills for Science and Research: 05.04. & 08.04. (online via Zoom) and 29.04. & 30.04. (in Göttingen). The 4-day workshop will cover all sites of scientific presentation: Talks, Poster presentation and Elevator talk! Read more

Lecture Series "Current Topics in Biophysics and Complex Systems" (start 15 Apr 2024)

We would like to draw your attention to the Lectures series “Current Topics in Biophysics and Complex Systems” which is offered by the GGNB PhD Program “Physics of Biological and Complex Systems”. The lecture series is open to all interested Master/PhD students of the natural Sciences! Read more

[in German] Kursangebot: "Gelassener durch bewegte Zeiten" (16 Apr & 23 Mai 2024)

Wie kann ich besser mit Konfliktsituationen umgehen? Wann ist ein Konflikt ein Konflikt, wie entstehen Konflikte und verschärfen sich? Was sind meine Verhaltensstile im Konflikt? Was sagen mir meine Gefühle im Konflikt? Diese Fragen werden im Kurs für alle Beschäftigten an der Universität Göttingen thematisiert. Read more

Funding Opportunities and Prizes

Sponsorship prizes „For Women in Science“ (apply until 30 Apr 2024)

The L'Oréal-UNESCO sponsorship programme "For Women in Science" was launched in 1998 by the Fondation L'Oréal and UNESCO to promote women in science and make them visible. Applications for this year's round will be possible until 30 April 2024. Applications are open to female doctoral students in their final year, post-docs, habilitation candidates and junior professors. Read more

Miscellaneous

Einladung zur hochschulöffentlichen Präsentation im Rahmen des Diversity Re-Audits (25 Apr 2024)

Sie sind eingeladen, am hochschulöffentlichen Teil des Peer-Reviews im Rahmen des Diversity Re-Audits teilzunehmen. Das Peer-Review ist Teil des Diversity Re-Audits „Vielfalt gestalten“ des Stifterverbandes, an dem die Universität sich momentan beteiligt, um ihre Diversitätsarbeit zu überprüfen und weiterzuentwickeln. Read more

Podcasts at our University & more

In case you like to listen to podcasts and want to know more about the (research) topics from Göttingen, here you find a list of podcast from our University. On top of that, we advertised in our previous newsletters the following podcasts: (Video) Podcast “Neuroscience and Beyond” and "Tierversuche verstehen – Fabeln, Fell und Fakten". Read more

Permanent Articles

This category includes all time interesting and important topics, permanently available to any (new) doctoral student.

Exclusive use of student e-mail address for communication

GRADE eLearning tool „Good Academic Practice during Doctoral Studies“

Course on Good Scientific Practice - mandatory to all doctoral students!

Statistical consulting for doctoral students

Rules for course registration

Do you know your student representatives?

Affiliation to the University of Göttingen for all GAUSS doctoral students in publications

Doctoral scholarships from various foundations

GAUSS webpage tool: Trainee Programs

GAUSS emergency scholarship and family fund

Reminder emails for TAC meetings & submission deadline

Mental Health Counseling for [PhD] students

"Orientation Framework for Good Scientific Practice" of the University (English & German)

Self-learning Python Online Course

Self-learning module on Data Visualisation by SUB