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2022/02/03
by Stefanie Klug
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Workshop “On your Path to Professorship”, 19 December 2022

We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service online workshop “On your Path to Professorship” by Prof. Dr. Annette Kolb.

  • Date: Monday, 19 December 2022, 9:00-17:00 h
  • Location: online
  • Target Group: Postdocs aiming to pusue an academic career
  • Trainer: Prof. Dr. Annette Kolb
  • 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

Today, a scientific career is characterized by increasing complexity, long times of temporary contracts, rapid change and intense competition. Young scientists are increasingly confronted with raising demands for quality improvement and excellence in everyday scientific life.

Strategic career planning and individual solutions can help meet these expectations and successfully pave the academic path. To stay in the academic system as a scientist permanently in most cases a professorship is the only option.

This workshop is directed toward young scientists aiming at pursuing an academic career. We will focus on the requirements towards professorship and look at different ways to gain the necessary qualifications. The participants will look at what they already have and what it still needed to be successful and develop an individual “road map” to reach their goal(s).

Moreover, the participants will have the opportunity for their individual SWOT analysis: What is my view of a „good“ professor? Do I have the necessary skills for this profession? What are my strengths and what are my weaknesses in endeavoring for an academic professorship? What are the opportunities and what walls am I running up against?

Methods

This workshop will encompass a mixture of tools, from short presentations to group work and individual exercises to plenum discussions.

2022/02/02
by Stefanie Klug
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Online Workshop “How to plan and write a competitive research proposal”, 13-14 Dec 2022

We are happy to announce as second 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, 13-14 December 2022, 9:00-15:00 h;
    plus 3h pre-teaching prior to the workshop
  • Location: online
  • Target Group: Postdocs and late-stage PhDs planning to apply for a research grant within the next 6 months
  • Trainer: Dr. Thomas Koch
  • Workshop Category: Improving Your Personal and Professional Skills
  • 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

This hands-on workshop provides an overview of the German research funding landscape and explains how to exploit funding opportunities effectively. Selected EU programs within the framework of Horizon Europe, such as MSCA Individual Fellowships and ERC Starting Grants, are also covered. Practice scenarios for different research settings help to understand how to select and approach individual funding programs to build resources and capabilities for further career advancement.

By participating in workshop, you will be better equipped to

  • identify funding opportunities for different research settings,
  • understand what makes a fundable research project,
  • tailor your case for support to meet the evaluation criteria,
  • structure and schedule the writing process,
  • move from smaller to larger grants.

This compact, yet highly interactive workshop employs theoretical input, plenary discussions, individual and small group work, experience sharing and expert advice. Participants are expected to complet some assignements for the pre-teaching activities, which will be provided one to two weeks before the workshop.

2022/02/01
by Stefanie Klug
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GAUSS Career Impulse Session (9 Dec 2022, 14:00-15:30) with Dr. Debsankha Manik (MOIA GmbH): “Physics of Complex Systems to Data Science in Mobility Industry”

We’re happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Impulse Sessions, this time with Senior Data Scientist Dr. Debsankha Manik from MOIA GmbH.

  • Date: Friday, 9 December 2022
  • Time: 14:00-15:30 (appr.)
  • Location: online
  • Registration: Please write a short e-mail to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de if you plan to attend. The log-in data will be sent to registered participants.

About the speaker: Debsankha is an alumnus of the GGNB program “Physics of Biological and Complex Systems”. He is a theoretical physicist and did doctoral research on the dynamics of complex flow networks in the Network Dynamics group of Prof. Marc Timme at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self Organization. He received his doctoral degree in 2018. During and after finishing his PhD, he studied on-demand ridepooling systems within the project “EcoBus”. He developed simulation software as well as production code for dispatching a vehicle fleet in order to transport passengers from their origins to the destinations.

In 2020, he joined MOIA GmbH as a data scientist, a young tech company with ~300 employees based in Hamburg and Berlin, that operates the largest on-demand ridepooling transport system in Europe, with ~250 electric vehicles with the core mission of improving urban mobility. His primary responsibility is understanding the impact of various internal and external factors (such as demand and fleet density) on the core business metrics and suggesting incremental changes for improving the product. Besides data analysis, statistical modeling, and convex optimization, his day-to-day work involves deploying and maintaining production software in the cloud. He is looking foward to sharing the similarities and differences between application focused research and working in the industry.

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2022/01/30
by Stefanie Klug
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Online workshop “From a Successful Job Application to the Job Interview”, 5 December 2022

We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service online workshop “From a Successful Job Application to the Job Interview” by Barbara Hoffbauer. This workshop is intended for those postdocs and late stage-PhD students who are already informed about various professional perspectives outside academia and have reflected their own suitability for different career paths.

Date: Monday, 5 December 2022
Duration: 1 day (9:00-17:00h)
Location: online workshop via Zoom
Trainer: Barbara Hoffbauer

Workshop Description: The first part of this workshop focuses on the application documents. In exercises the participants will reflect their individual achievements so far and learn how to convincingly present them in the CV as center-piece of every application. Analysing real job ads the participants will practise how to write cover letters that create the desire to meet the author. They will get advice on how their determination for a specific career path can be reflected in CV and cover letter and what other application documents to include considering differences between jobs in science and industry.

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2022/01/29
by Stefanie Klug
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GAUSS Career Impulse Session (18 Nov 2022, 14:00-15:30) with Dr. Ina Klusmann, MBA (Evonik): “Signalling networks – from p53 to corporate culture”

We’re happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Impulse Sessions, this time with Transformation Management Officer Dr. Ina Klusmann (MBA) from Evonik.

  • Date: Friday, 18 November 2022
  • Time: 14:00-15:30 (appr.)
  • Location: online
  • Registration: Please write a short e-mail to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de if you plan to attend. The log-in data will be sent to registered participants.

About the speaker: Ina is an alumna of the IMPRS Molecular Biology MSc/PhD program. She completed her MSc and PhD studies in the lab of Prof. Matthias Dobbelstein at the UMG working on the effects of the p53-Mdm2 signalling network on DNA replication in 2018.

After a short PostDoc in the Dobbelstein lab, Ina continued her path by pursuing an MBA degree at the Collège des Ingénieurs in Munich, Turin and Paris. During this program, Ina joined Evonik Industries AG for a project in the Corporate Controlling department of the company. After graduating in 2020, she proceeded with a full-time position at Evonik and further explored the world of business cases, M&A, strategic financial planning for the next two years. Besides number crunching and business processes, Ina has discovered a new passion for organisational and cultural change which led her to her new position as Transformation Management Officer at the Health Care business of Evonik.

In this session, Ina is looking forward to sharing her experience on the process of finding her path and how to grow in a corporate culture.

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2022/01/28
by Stefanie Klug
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Online Workshop “How to plan and write a competitive research proposal”, 3-4 Nov 2022

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. Therefore, it is crucial that you already have an idea about the research topic and possible funding bodies.

  • Date: Thursday and Friday, 3-4 November 2022, 9:00-15:00 h;
    plus 3h pre-teaching prior to the workshop
  • Location: online
  • Target Group: Postdocs and late-stage PhDs planning to apply for a research grant within the next 6 months
  • Trainer: Dr. Thomas Koch
  • Workshop Category: Improving Your Personal and Professional Skills
  • 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

This hands-on workshop provides an overview of the German research funding landscape and explains how to exploit funding opportunities effectively. Selected EU programs within the framework of Horizon Europe, such as MSCA Individual Fellowships and ERC Starting Grants, are also covered. Practice scenarios for different research settings help to understand how to select and approach individual funding programs to build resources and capabilities for further career advancement.

By participating in workshop, you will be better equipped to

  • identify funding opportunities for different research settings,
  • understand what makes a fundable research project,
  • tailor your case for support to meet the evaluation criteria,
  • structure and schedule the writing process,
  • move from smaller to larger grants.

This compact, yet highly interactive workshop employs theoretical input, plenary discussions, individual and small group work, experience sharing and expert advice. Participants are expected to complet some assignements for the pre-teaching activities, which will be provided one to two weeks before the workshop

2022/01/27
by Stefanie Klug
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Online Workshop: “Fast Forward – The Ultimate Productivity System for Researchers” (7-week course, starting 17 October 2022)

We are happy to announce our next project management workshop “Fast Forward – The Ultimate Productivity System for Researchers” with Dr. Nadine Sinclair.

Achieve amazing productivity and reduce your stress level in 7 weeks by implementing the productivity secrets that allow management consultants and high-performing industry teams to generate results quickly.

  • Information event via Zoom: 22 September 2022: 11:00-11:30h
  • Live Kick-off: Monday, 17 October 2022, 10-11:30h
  • Duration: 7 consecutive weeks with weekly Q&A session on Wednesdays or Thursdays, 17:00-18:00h
  • Target group: Postdocs and late-stage PhD students who would like to add effective project management to their skill set and apply the principles to their own research supported by an implementation phase offered during this course.
  • Webpage: http://mindmatters.pro/fastforward
  • Credits / Certificate: After successfully completing the workshop (this includes completing the different modules AND attending the Q&A sessions), you will receive a certificate and/or 2.0 credits (for PhD students).
  • To register, please send an e-mail to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de, including a short motivation statement and your commitment to complete the course (PhD students: please register via StudIP between 1-20 August 2022)

Pre-requisites
This training is for you if you can attend all live Q&A sessions, have a project that you can work on during the course, are ready to roll up your sleeves to work with the tools and techniques and willing to engage with the trainers and your peers on these topics.
This training is not for you if you are just looking for information on personal productivity and project management, cannot take the time to attend the live Q&A sessions and implement the techniques, or are unwilling to engage in discussions with others.
Ideally the project should last at least 3 months from the beginning of the course and at minimum 8 weeks. Your project of choice should have a professional context – it can be a research project, writing a paper/thesis, literature search to define a project, job search or similar. 

This workshop has a different format than our other workshops as it is an online workshop running for 7 weeks including

  • Weekly pre-recorded lectures to watch at your own pace
  • Weekly 1-hour live Q&A session via Zoom video conference hosted by the trainer Nadine Sinclair to answer your questions ( Please note: If you miss more than one of the Q&A sessions you will neither receive a certificate nor any credits.)
  • Self-study workbooks and templates to help you implement the techniques in your projects with actionable feedback on weekly course assignments on a dedicated private community platform
  • Private community that allows you to interact with peers and exchange additional resources
  • Personal Productivity Score assessment at the beginning and end of the course
  • average workload per week: approximately 3-4h

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