GAUSS Career Blog

Career Information and Announcements

2024/09/12
by Stefanie Klug
0 comments

Workshop: “Career Development Strategies: From Deciding What’s Next to Getting Hired”, 9-10 Dec 2024

We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshop “Career Development Strategies: From Deciding What’s Next to Getting Hired” by Dr. Alexander Britz.

Are you currently working as Postdoc or finalizing your PhD? Do you plan to transition to your next position in or outside of academia, but feel unprepared for the job hunt? In this highly interactive workshop, you will get a comprehensive set of career development strategies which will help you master this process. You will learn to decide what your next career step should be and how to be effective in the application process including compiling a convincing application and mastering the job interview.

Dates: Monday and Tuesday, 9-10 December 2024
Duration: 2 full days, 9-17h
Location: in-person on North campus
Trainer: Dr. Alexander Britz

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.

Continue Reading →

2024/09/11
by Stefanie Klug
0 comments

GAUSS Career Impulse Session (13 December 2024, 14:00-15:30, ONLINE) with Dr. Ritu Chakrabarti (Scientific Editor at Cell Press): “Behind the Scenes: the saga of an interdisciplinary editor”

We’re happy to announce our next virtual GAUSS Career Impulse Session, this time with Dr Ritu Chakrabarti, Scientific Editor at Cell Press. In this session, Ritu will provide insights into her field of work, sharing her personal experiences and perspectives.

  • Date: Friday, 13 December 2024
  • Time: 14:00-15:30 (appr.)
  • Location: online
  • Registration: Please write a short e-mail to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de if you would like to attend.

About the speaker:

Ritu has been a Scientific Editor at Cell Press, since August 2019. She earned her PhD in Sensory and Motor Neuroscience from the University of Göttingen and later pursued a postdoctoral fellowship at the interface of Neuroscience and Structural Biology. With wide-ranging scientific interests, Ritu thrives on mentoring, finds adventure in scuba diving, and creates harmony as a professional Sitar player.

About the sessions:

Our Career Impulse Sessions offer a platform for interactive and informal exchange about career-related topics for PhD students and postdocs in the Life and Natural Sciences. By inviting PhD holders with different career paths, we would like to illustrate the broad range of potential careers for PhD students and postdocs and give inspiration for career choices.

2024/09/03
by Stefanie Klug
0 comments

Online Workshop: “Project Management for Postdocs” (28-29 Nov 2024)

We are happy to announce our upcoming GAUSS Career Service online workshop “Project Management for Postdocs” by Dr. Peter Schröder.

This workshop is intended for Postdocs and Junior PIs in the Natural and Life Sciences.

  • Dates: Thursday and Friday, 28-29 Nov 2024
  • Duration: 1.5 days, Thursday: 10-17h, Friday: 10-14h
  • Location: online
  • Trainer: Dr. Peter Schröder

Registration: Please register here (in case you are not registered yet) and send an email to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de including a short statement on your motivation to attend the workshop.

Workshop contents:

This workshop intends to facilitate synergistic effects and implement basic project management culture to increase the efficient use of resources and improve teamwork. The trainer will pick up existing problems and work on solutions together with the participants in a mixture of „ex-cathedra“ teaching, jointed and group phases.

Topics:

  • Planning scientific projects
  • Monitoring and controlling scientific projects
  • Managing scientific objectives
  • Managing my team
  • Planning daily work
  • Strategic planning
  • Structuring work and workplace
  • Risk & output management
  • Communication in scientific projects
  • Time & Ressourcemanagement tools

2024/09/02
by Stefanie Klug
0 comments

GAUSS Career Impulse Session (18 October 2024, 14:00-15:30, ONLINE) with Dr. Lennart Mohnike (International Future Leadership Trainee at Bayer): “From Passion to Profession – Kickoff with a Trainee Program”

We’re happy to announce our next virtual GAUSS Career Impulse Session, this time with Dr. Lennart Mohnike, International Future Leadership Trainee at Bayer, AG. In this session, Lennart will give some insights into his career start as “International Future Leadership Trainee” at Bayer AG.

  • Date: Friday, 18 October 2024
  • Time: 14:00-15:30 (appr.)
  • Location: online
  • Registration: Please write a short e-mail to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de if you would like to attend.

About the speaker:

Lennart Mohnike studied “BSc. Biology” and “MSc. Molecular Life Sciences” at the University of Göttingen. In 2019 he started his doctoral studies within the GGNB Program IRTG 2172 – PRoTECT, a collaborative Graduate School between the University of Göttingen and the University of British Columbia. After finishing his PhD Lennart applied for the “International Future Leadership Trainee” at Bayer AG where he started his post in 2023.

Our Career Impulse Sessions offer a platform for interactive and informal exchange about career-related topics for PhD students and postdocs in the Life and Natural Sciences. By inviting PhD holders with different career paths, we would like to illustrate the broad range of potential careers for PhD students and postdocs and give inspiration for career choices.

2024/09/01
by Stefanie Klug
0 comments

Online Workshop “How to plan and write a competitive research proposal”, 15-16 October 2024

We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service online workshop on the topic “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. Therefore, it is crucial that you already have an idea about the research topic and possible funding bodies.

  • Date: Tuesday and Wednesday, 15-16 October 2024,
  • Times: 9-15h on both days plus 3h pre-teaching prior to the workshop
  • Location: online
  • Trainer: Dr. Thomas Koch
  • Registration: Please register here (in case you are not yet registered) and send an email to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de including a short statement on your motivation to attend the workshop.

Workshop description

Continue Reading →

2024/08/31
by Stefanie Klug
0 comments

Online workshop “Career Planning”, September 2024

We are happy to announce our upcoming 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, 9:00-11:00h
  • Location: online
  • Trainer: Dr. Iris Köhler
  • Workshop Category: Knowing the Job Market
  • Registration: Please register here (in case you are not registered yet) and send an email to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de including a short statement on your motivation to attend the workshop.

Workshop description

The majority of PhD holders does not stay in academia, but pursues careers in a variety of fields. Many young scientists struggle with finding out which career path they would like to pursue. They are not sure which career options exist, and they often have never taken the time to reflect on what kind of work they would actually like to do, and what their values, interests and goals are. The following topics will be covered in the course:

  1. Discovering career and life goals: What kind of work do you like to do? What are your dreams and ideas for the future?
  2. Exploring career options: Where do people with a PhD outside academia work?
  3. Analyzing skills and competencies: What are you good at? What do you enjoy doing? Which “hidden” competencies do you have that you are maybe not aware of?
  4. Make a plan: What are the next steps?

After this course, participants

  • have a better understanding of their life and career goals.
  • have analyzed their skills and competencies.
  • are aware of career options within and outside academia.
  • have designed their individual career development plan.

2024/08/30
by Stefanie Klug
0 comments

GAUSS Career Impulse Session (13 September 2024, 14:00-15:30, ONLINE) with Dr. Mirna Kramar (MSCA Fellow, Postdoctoral Researcher at Institut Curie, Paris): “The sweet pain of writing grants: Pursuing an academic career”

We’re happy to announce our next virtual GAUSS Career Impulse Session, this time with Dr. Mirna Kramar, Marie Curie Fellow and postdoctoral researcher at the Insitut Curie, Paris. In this session, Mirna will talk about her academic career journey so far taking her from Göttingen to Paris – sign up for the session and learn about her passion for research and the lessons Mirna learned on her way.

  • Date: Friday, 13 September 2024
  • Time: 14:00-15:30 (appr.)
  • Location: online
  • Registration: Please write a short e-mail to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de if you would like to attend.

About the speaker:

Mirna is an alumna of the GGNB PhD Program “International Max Planck Research School Physics of Biological and Complex Systems”. She graduated in 2020 in the lab of Karen Alim at the MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organisation in Göttingen, where she studied the physical basis of behavior generation in the slime mold. Her interest in behavior generation in non-neural organisms took her to the Institut Curie in Paris, where she is doing her postdoctoral research as a MSCA Fellow. In the lab of Mathieu Coppey and collaborating with Aleksandra Walczak and Thierry Mora at the ENS in Paris, she is studying information processing capabilities of eukaryotic cells through the lens of information theory, as well as cellular communication by means of bioelectricity. Determined to pursue an academic career, Mirna is passionate about teaching and popularization of science, as well as promoting inclusivity in the research community.

Our Career Impulse Sessions offer a platform for interactive and informal exchange about career-related topics for PhD students and postdocs in the Life and Natural Sciences. By inviting PhD holders with different career paths, we would like to illustrate the broad range of potential careers for PhD students and postdocs and give inspiration for career choices.