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2022/01/22
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Online workshop: “Mastering my Job Interview”, 1 Sept 2022

We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service online workshop “Mastering my Job Interview” by Dr. Alexander Britz.

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 highly interactive workshop, you will learn and practice career development strategies with a focus on leaving a great impression in your job interview.

Dates: 1 September 2022
Duration: Thursday, 1 Sept 2022, 9-17h
Location: online
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.

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2022/01/21
by Stefanie Klug
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Online workshop: “A Career in Academia”, 14-15 June 2022

We are happy to announce our next online GAUSS Career Service workshop “A Career in Academia” by Dr. Neela Enke.

Am I suited for a career in academia? And what does it take to become a professor? Are there alternatives? These questions are crucial for scientists throughout their postdoc phase. This workshop gives an overview on how a career in academia can be achieved and which parameters are relevant for strategic career development in the (German) academic system.

Dates: 14-15 June 2022
Duration: Tuesday and Wednesday, 14-15 June 2022, 9:30-17:00h
Location: online
Trainer: Dr. 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.

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2022/01/20
by Stefanie Klug
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GAUSS Career Impulse Session (8 July 2022, 14:00-15:30) with Dr. Hendrik Urbanke (Evotec): “From Neuroscience to Biology 2.0 – what it’s like to transition from bench to server”

We’re happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Impulse Sessions, this time with Dr. Hendrik Urbanke from Evotec International GmbH.

  • Date: Friday, 8 July 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: Hendrik is an alumnus of the GGNB Systems Neuroscience PhD program. He performed his doctoral thesis in the German Center for neurodegenerative diseases in Prof. Andre Fischers’ group working on Epigenetic readers using transcriptomics. Before that, he did his MSc in Developmental Neural and Behavioral biology in Goettingen focusing on molecular Neuroscience.

After graduating in 2018 he continued his research as a post-doc until 2019. After a short exploration of the startup world, he made the transition to industry in the end of 2019 and joined Evotec where he started working on chronic kidney disease as a data scientist, thus made the transition from wet-lab to dry-lab. He is now leading the target identification efforts within the computational biology team of Evotec Goettingen, which is expanding. He is looking forward to sharing his experience on transitioning to a completely new field and method and answer any questions you may have around industrial research and alike.

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2022/01/20
by Stefanie Klug
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Workshop “Job Hunting and Application Skills”, 4-5 July 2022

We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service in-person workshop “Job Hunting and Application Skills” by Gaby Schilling.

Target group: Postdoctoral scientists and late-stage PhD students who are currently applying or planning to apply for a position in industry or other areas outside academia.

Goal: Becoming familiar with all steps involved in the application process.

Dates: Monday and Tuesday, 4-5 July 2022
Duration: 1.5 days – Monday, 13-18h; Tuesday, 9-17h
Location: Large seminar room 0.232 of the GZMB building, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11, 37077 Göttingen (map)
Trainer: Dr. Gaby Schilling

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.

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2022/01/11
by Stefanie Klug
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GAUSS Career Impulse Session (3 June 2022, 14:00-15:30) with Dr. Ole Frister (Bayer): “Lost in translation – From In publica commoda to Science for a better life”

We’re happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Impulse Sessions, this time with Dr. Ole Frister from Bayer AG.

  • Date: Friday, 3 June 2022
  • Time: 14:00-15:30 (appr.)
  • Location: Online via Zoom
  • Registration: Please write a short e-mail to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de if you plan to attend, so we can send you the login details in due time!

About the speaker: Ole is an alumnus of the “Biomolecules: Structure – Function – Dynamics” program and former students’ representative of the GGNB. In his PhD Thesis in the lab of Prof. Dr. Marina Rodnina at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, he studied the binding and catalytic dynamics of Elongation Factor P during translation. He received his doctoral degree in 2018. 

Before joining GGNB, Ole studied in Hannover, Göttingen and Cambridge mainly focusing on broad spectra of natural products and their application. After defending his thesis, Ole joined the Bayer AG as trainee in the Internation Future Leadership Programm in product supply, during which he gathered on-site experience in Germany, Switzerland, US and Italy. In his current role he supports the company vision of “Health for all, hunger for none” as quality assurance manager in the area biologic development. His work consists of a mixture of project management, strategic quality improvements measures, QA-oversight of biotech facitilties, hands-on troubleshooting and lots of fire fighting.

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2022/01/10
by Stefanie Klug
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Workshop “Career Planning”, 23-24 May 2022

We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshops: “Career Planning- What are my further career movements” by Dr. Matthias Merkelbach.

What are my unique abilities and interests critical in determining the right career path for me? Can I combine my ideas about a fulfilled life with a career outside of university and academia? How can I develop a strategy for embarking on a non-academic career path?

This workshop helps to answer this – and other – questions for all those who want to plan their career development strategically. 

Dates: Monday and Tuesday, 23-24 May 2022
Location: Large Seminar room, Foyer building of the MPI-nat, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Göttingen
Duration: Monday: 9:00-17:00h, Tuesday: individual coaching sessions
Trainer: Dr. Matthias Merkelbach
Target group: Postdoctoral scientist and late-stage PhD students

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.

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2022/01/09
by Stefanie Klug
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GAUSS Career Impulse Session (20 May 2022, 14-15:30h) with Dr. Cindy Wechsler (Pfizer): “From positive read-out to worldwide supply – how the pandemic changed industry practices” – hybrid event!

We are happy to announce our our next GAUSS Career Impulse Session with Dr. Cindy Wechsler (Pfizer Manufacturing Deutschland GmbH).

Cindy is an alumna of our PhD Program “Biomolecules: Structure – Function – Dynamics”. She performed her doctoral thesis in the Bioanalytics Group of Prof Dr. Kai Tittmannn (Department of Molecular Enzymology) and successfully finished her PhD in 2014.

In this session Cindy will be sharing insights on her career steps and her experience. Of course, questions from your side are more than welcome.

Please note that the talk will be a hybrid event this time! This is the first time since the pandemic that we could invite a speaker to come back to Göttingen and we are very happy to have the opportunity to see you face-to-face again.

If you cannot make it to the event in-person, but would still like to join you have the chance to attend online as well!

Due to the limited number of people who can be there in person, it is not possible to show up spontaneously. You would need to check with us first and can only come when your participation in person is confirmed.

If you are interested to attend the session, please write a short e-mail to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de and please state if you want to join the talk in-person or online.

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