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2017/07/27
by Christin Schröter
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Apply for Dorothea Schlözer Mentoring Programme for Female Postdocs

The Dorothea Schlözer Mentoring Programme offers female Postdocs on Göttingen Campus the chance to promote their career development and prepare them for a leading (international) role in research and academia.

It is designed to accompany young female researchers through this phase of their development and represents a contribution to increasing the number of women in leading positions at universities and non-university institutions.

Duration: 1 year

Application: 1-31 August 2017

Start of new round: November 2017

What are my career prospects as scientist/scholar? What criteria are paramount in deciding to pursue an academic or non-academic career? Why is networking important? How should I behave in competitive situations? And how can I combine my family life with a career in academia or elsewhere?

Questions like these demonstrate that a successful career is more than just delivering optimal results at work. A hierarchy-independent mentoring relationship with a professor together with the exchange with other postdoctoral researchers can provide important orientation and support at this stage in life. The participants are provided with target-specific trainings over the duration of the programme round.

For more information on the programme, requirements and the application process click here or contact Dr. Vera Bissinger from the Central Coordination Mentoring of Göttingen University

2017/07/26
by Christin Schröter
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Maria Reiche Support Programme for female Postdocs

The „Maria Reiche support programme“ offers support to female Postdocs working towards their habilitation at TU Dresden. TU Dresden launched the programme with the aim to improve equal opportunity for early-career female scientists at TU Dresden on their way to a professorship.

Application deadline: 30 August 2017

The funding period is 18 months with the opportunity for an extension of max. further 6 month after positive evaluation. If the application for third-party funding is approved before this deadline passes, funding terminates when the agreement with the sponsored candidate in the project comes into effect.

Depending on the Postdoc’s application, funding is either used to fund a half- or full-time post (TV-L13, in exceptional cases up to E 14 TV-L) or can be paid out as a grant. The grant total is in accordance with the current DFG funding guidelines.

2017/07/06
by Christin Schröter
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Career Impulse Session (21 July 2017) with Annette Denker, Consultant at McKinsey

We are happy to invite you to another Career Impulse Session this time with Dr. Annette Denker from McKinsey & Company in Düsseldorf.

Date: Friday, 21 July 2017
Time: 15-17h
Location: European Neuroscience Institute, ground floor, large seminar room 0.55/0.56

After the talk, Annette will take some time to answer your individual questions and you will have a platform for interactive and informal exchange about career-related topics.

For organizational reasons we would be grateful if you could write a short email to ggnb-career@gwdg.de if you plan to attend.

Information about the speaker:

Annette Denker completed her Bachelor in Molecular Biotechnology in 2007 at the University of Heidelberg. She then joined the MSc/PhD program Molecular Biology in Göttingen, where she performed her PhD thesis in the group of Silvio Rizzoli, focusing on the recycling of synaptic vesicles in vivo. After her PhD, Annette did two postdocs in the field of nuclear organization and DNA architecture, the first at the Salk Institute for Biological studies in La Jolla, California, and the second at the Hubrecht Institute in Utrecht, The Netherlands. She has been working as a consultant for McKinsey & Co., Inc. since September 2016.

2017/07/05
by Christin Schröter
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Call for registration: Third Infinity Conference, 9-11 October 2017

Ob behalf of the organizers, we would like to draw your attention to the “Third Infinity Conference” organized by the GGNB Program IMPRS for Physics of Biological and Complex Systems (PBCS) and taking place from 9-11 October 2017 at the Manfred-Eigen Lecture Hall of the Max Planck Campus, Göttingen.

The focus of the conference is Physics of Biological and Complex Systems, and we aim to cover diverse topics on the field. Invited speakers for the conference are

  • Computational Biophysics – Modesto Orozco, Institute for Research in Biomedicine
  • Neuroimmunology – Hartmut Wekerle, Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology
  • Mechanosensing – Eugene Terentjev, University of Cambridge
  • Single Molecule Spectroscopy – Ben Schuler, University of Zurich
  • Optogenetics – Marco Mongillo, The Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine
  • Protein Mechanics – Neel S. Joshi, Harvard University
  • Active Matter – Eberhard Bodenschatz, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organisation
  • Complex Network/Liquid Crystals – Carl Modes, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
  • Keynote – Reinhard Jahn, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry

The deadline for registration and abstract submission is 1 August 2017.

To register, click here.

2017/06/27
by Christin Schröter
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2 Job Openings at Merck KGaA in Darmstadt

Our alumna Dr. Cathrin Enke from the GGNB program “Molecular Biology of Cells”, who now is the director of the strategic Product Management Group “Analytical Point-of-Use” at Merck KGaA in Darmstadt, has asked us to forward these job offerings in her team:

 

2017/06/08
by Christin Schröter
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International Career Workshop for Postdocs “Cross-Border Postdoctoriales”, 6-9 November 2017 – Call for Applications

You are currently working in a research institute in Germany, France or Luxemburg, your fixed-term contract is about to end and you are wondering what to do next? You are looking for a job or you have just come back from your research stay abroad? You follow your spouse who has just found a job in one of the three countries?

Be part of the third cross-border Postdoctoriales that are organized from 6 to 9 November 2017 by the Franco-German University, ABG, the Luxemburg National Research Funds (FNR), the Luxemburg Institute of Health (LIH), the Luxemburg Institute for Socio-Economic Research (LISER), the Luxemburg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) and the University of Luxemburg.

This workshop is the perfect opportunity to take some time to think about your professional identity, your wishes, to understand the recruitment process and recruiters’ expectations in different countries, to discover new career paths and develop your network by meeting professionals.

Goals:

  • discover new career paths outside of public research
  • have a better overview of the job market in all three countries
  • achieve a better understanding of HR policies for researchers
  • develop and maintain a professional network
  • better communicate on professional profile, background and skills, considering differences between cultures and countries

CLICK HERE to download the registration form. Registration is open until June 23!
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2017/06/07
by Christin Schröter
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Career Impulse Session (19 June 2017) with IT Consultant Jens Nullmeier

We are happy to invite you to another Career Impulse Session titled “Should I become an IT Consultant?” with Dr. Jens Nullmeier from Xenium AG in Munich.

Date: Monday, 19 June 2017
Time: 16-18h
Location: GZMB building, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11, seminar room 0.232 (ground floor)

After the talk, Jens Nullmeier will take some time to answer your individual questions and you will have a platform for interactive and informal exchange about career-related topics.

For organizational reasons we would be grateful if you could write a short email to ggnb-career@gwdg.de if you plan to attend.

Information about the speaker:

Dr. Jens Nullmeier studied Mathematics at the FU Berlin and Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse.

During his work as a PhD researcher at the Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen, he worked on spatial effects on evolutionary dynamics far from equilibrium in the workgroup of Oskar Hallatschek.

In 2014, he started working as IT consultant at Xenium AG in Munich.

During his talk he will provide insight into the transition from science to IT consulting and share some of his experiences with his current projects. In particular, he will discuss the following questions:

  • Software development in science and industry: What are the differences?
  • What are Central IT-Challenges in the (German) industry?
  • Technical skills vs. social skills: What is more important in consulting?