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2017/03/01
by Christin Schröter
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Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme (short-term) in Japan

The purpose of this programme is to provide opportunities to young pre- and postdoctoral researchers from the US, Canada and Europe to conduct, under the guidance of their hosts, cooperative research with leading research groups in Japanese universities and other institutions:

www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-fellow/postdoctoral_short.html

www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-oubei-s/index.html

There are three ways to apply for a fellowship in Japan:

  1. DAAD: JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme (short-term)
  • For PhDs and Postdocs
  • Duration: up to 6 months
  • start of stipend between October an December 2017
  • deadline for applications: 30 April 2017
  • further information
  1. Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung:
  1. Application directly through the host JSPS Tokyo

 

2017/02/28
by Christin Schröter
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PEP Entrepreneurship Excursion for Young Researchers from MPIs, 29-30 March 2017

The PEP programme is offering another great excursion for potential founders, PhD students and Postdocs of the MPIs, the Helmholtz Gemeinschaft and related institutes in Göttingen.

The two-day excursion offers the opportunity to gain exclusive insight into innovative and successful businesses from the area with company tours and the chance to talk to founders and CEOs.

On 29 March 2017 the tour will take you to companies in and around Hanover, for example the Cultex Laboratories GmbH and the PEAT GmbH – Progressive Environmental & Agricultural Technologies.

On 30 March 2017 you will  visit companies in and around Kassel, like the Dedrone GmbH.

For more information on the excursion and how to sign up for it click here to download the flyer.

2017/02/24
by Christin Schröter
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Workshop “Job Hunting and Application Skills”, 27-28 March 2017

We are happy to announce the next workshop on “Job Hunting and Application Skills – Natural and Life Sciences”.

Target group: Junior researchers who are currently applying or plan to apply soon to positions in Industry or other areas outside academic research.

Goal: Getting to know all the steps of the application process.

Dates: Monday, 27 March 2017 (12-17 h) & Tuesday, 28 March 2017 (9-16 h)
Place: GZMB building, seminar room 0.232 (ground floor)
Trainer: Dr. Gaby Schilling
Duration: 1,5 days

Registration: Please register here and write an email to ggnb-career@gwdg.de, including a short statement on your motivation to join the workshop.

Detailed Description:

The workshop deals with how to write a professional application. Participants will learn about the requirements regarding form and content of CVs and the respective differences between academia and industry. They will reflect about how to convey their strengths and motivation in response to a job advertisement, but also how to approach speculative applications. Moreover, participants will train their self-presentation skills in the job hunting process, including self-presentation on career fairs, conferences and interviews. The workshop will include various training sessions, partly accompanied by video recording for a follow-up analysis.

Testimonials:

“The workshop was very informative and dynamic. It helped me to realize my most positive characteristics and feel confident about my future career possibilities.” (Postdoc at GZMB)

“Make the most of this wonderful experience. Learn and improve yourself with the content of the workshop. It’s an eye opener.” (Postdoc in Molecular Biology)

2017/02/21
by Christin Schröter
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Two Half-Day Workshops “Science Management – a career option for me?” (in German), 6 April and 8 June 2017

These workshops are a special cooperation of various science managers on Göttingen campus: Dr. Anna Beck (Faculty of Humanities), Dr. Vera Bissinger (Central Coordination Mentoring), Dr. Sabine Heerwart (Graduate School of Humanities Göttingen), Christina Höhmann (Teaching and Learning Quality Management), Dr. Britta Korkowsky (Göttingen Graduate School of Social Sciences), Dr. Katrin Wodzicki (Teamleitung Akademische Personalentwicklung), Dr. Maren Zempel-Gino (Research Department)

Target group: PhD students and Postdocs on Göttingen Campus

For more information click here.

Workshop I:

Date: Thursday, 6 April 2017, 13:00-17:00 h
Location: Großer Seminarraum, Tagungszentrum an der Sternwarte, Geismar Landstr. 11, 37083 Göttingen

–The course is already fully booked!–

Workshop II:

Date: Thursday, 8 June 2017, 9:00-13:00 h
Location: Konferenzraum der GSGG, Friedländer Weg 2, 37085 Göttingen

–The course is already fully booked!–

As the workshops deal with Science Management in Germany, and Science Managers in Germany need to have good to very good German skills, the workshop will be held in German!

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2017/02/09
by Christin Schröter
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Career Impulse Session with Jamilur Rahman, Project Manager for Innovation Projects at Grünenthal GmbH, Aachen, 3 March 2017

We are happy to invite you to another Career Impulse Session titled “Working as a Project Manager at Grünenthal GmbH” with Dr. Jamilur Rahman.

Date: Friday, 3 March 2017
Start: 14:00 h
Location: GZMB building, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11, seminar room 0.232 (ground floor)

After the talk, Jamilur Rahman 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:

Jamilur Rahman is a GGNB alumnus who did his PhD at the Department of Neurophysiology at the University Medical Center Göttingen.

He has started his professional career at Grünenthal GmbH as a Regulatory Affairs Manager in December 2014 after finishing his PhD. In this role, he has been responsible for planning and execution of post-approval regulatory activities of assigned medicinal products approved in more than 150 countries by interacting directly and indirectly with respective Health Authorities. Based on his performance and good understanding about Pharmaceutical development, he was given a role of Project Manager for Innovation Projects in Feb 2016. In this role, he manages and leads different cross-functional Project Teams comprising Regulatory Affairs, Clinical, Pre-clinical, Chemistry Manufacturing & Control, Medical affairs, Commercial, and Market access for assigned projects (Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices).

2017/02/03
by Christin Schröter
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Career Impulse Session with Franziska Schmidt, Graduate School Project Manager at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg, 17 March 2017

We are happy to invite you to another Career Impulse Session titled “Working as a Science Manager at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)” with Dr. Franziska Schmidt, Graduate School Project Manager at the DKFZ in Heidelberg.

Date: Friday, 17 March 2017
Start: 14:00 o’clock
Location: GZMB building, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11, seminar room 0.232 (ground floor)

After the talk, Franziska Schmidt will take the 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:

Franziska Schmidt studied biochemistry and worked as a PhD student and Postdoc at the Institute of Molecular Oncology at the University of Göttingen. Since 2015, she is Project Manager for the International PhD Program of the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg. Around 550 PhD students are working at the DKFZ which is Germany’s largest biomedical research institute and a member of the Helmholtz Association. Franziska is responsible for the international visibility of the PhD program and for the organisation of the bi-annual interviews. She does various marketing activities and represents the DKFZ at international career fairs. During the Career Impulse Session, she will give an overview about jobs and employers in science management as well as talk about her responsibilities at the DKFZ.

 

2017/01/31
by Christin Schröter
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Career Impulse Session with Lars Reichl, software developer at Prof. Schumann GmbH, 3 February 2017

We are happy to invite you to another Career Impulse Session titled “Working in IT-consulting – a Göttingen love story” with Dr. Lars Reichl, software developer at Prof. Schumann GmbH in Göttingen.

The event is organized by PhDs and PostDocs of the MPI-ds/IMPRS-PCBS.

Date: Friday, 3 February 2017
Start: 16:00 o’clock
Location: MPI-EM Seminar Room A1, Hermann-Rein-Straße 3

Information about the speaker:

Dr. Lars Reichl studied physics at the universities of Heidelberg and Göttingen and worked as PhD researcher and PostDoc at the MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen. His work at the MPI-DS he was focused on theoretical neuroscience and allowed him to gain some computational skills. This came in handy when he switched gears and started working as a software developer for his current firm.

The Prof. Schumann GmbH started out as a start up driven by university students and a professor and has since gained a standing in the IT-consulting landscape. The firm focuses on the development of software for credit risk management and consulting for large insurances, banks and other corporations. With about 70 employees, Prof. Schumann GmbH is still small but growing fast and always looking to hire. The firm is situated directly opposite of the central campus and might offer a great opportunity for people that are tied to Göttingen and want to start working in the business.