2014/07/04
by Katrin Wodzicki
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From 5th to 27th July, I’m out of office for my summer holidays. I will not read my e-mails during this time. I wish everyone a nice summer with hopefully some time to rest during holidays.
All the best,
Katrin
2014/06/13
by Katrin Wodzicki
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The MPI-bpc PhD / Postdoc Community has organized a career seminar with Dr. Fabian Peters from Continental in Hannover. Here the detailed announcement:
Career seminar: “Tires: Just Black and Round?”
Speaker: Dr. Fabian Peters, alumnus of the MPI-bpc
Organization: Continental — Division Tires, Hannover
Date and time: Wednesday, June 18th, 4PM
Location: Large Seminar Room of the Administration building of the MPI-bpc
Abstract:
In this career seminar, Dr. Fabian Peters will give an introduction on the process of research and development in the industry of tire manufacturing. First, the company Continental will be presented, followed by a scientific presentation of material development for tires, the tire setup, the compounds, some material physics, target conflicts, and testing.
Dr. Fabian Peters has studied Chemistry at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and is an alumnus of the Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (MPI-bpc) as he conducted his doctoral study in the Department of NMR-based Structural Biology (NMR-II) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Christian Griesinger with the topic Development of lanthanide tags for biomolecular NMR spectroscopy.
— Organized by the PhD / Postdoc Community of the MPIbpc —
2014/06/10
by Katrin Wodzicki
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As every year, the summer school for junior researchers on science communication takes place in Braunschweig (in German). The summer school introduces to different fields of science communication including PR at research institutes, science journalism and science communication with social media.
Date: 8-10 September 2014
Place: Braunschweig, Haus der Wissenschaften
Registration fee: 250 € (including catering during the day, but not dinner and accomodation)
More information are available here.
2014/06/05
by Katrin Wodzicki
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Well-managed diverse teams and start-ups show significantly better performance and profits as compared to homogeneous teams. More and more organizations, private and public, are striving to achieve the goal of creating efficient teams with equal gender representations.
See for example, Deutsche Telekom and Siemens implementing equal opportunity agreements and strategies.
These initiatives include that team leaders and managers are requested to employ women and men fifty-fifty. Hence, if unequal gender participation persists, team leaders and managers have to deal with the reasons, in the hiring process as well as in daily work. If we want to exploit the full potential of diverse teams and manage them effectively, we need to understand where gender differences in career development come from.
If you consider becoming a principle investigator, team leader or manager or just wonder how to manage diverse teams, we invite you to our next Career Impulse Session. Therein, we would like to facilitate small group discussions between female and male participants to highlight gender inequality at the workplace and elaborate internal and external barriers. Thereby, we would like to initiate a dialogue on how we can face gender differences and overcome them together, resulting in opportunities for action for everyone.
Date: Tuesday, 1 July 2014, 15:00-17:00 o’clock
Place: GZMB, seminar room 0.232
Duration: 1.5 hours + 0.5 hour for open networking
For organizational reasons, please write me an email (ggnb-career@gwdg.de), if you consider taking part. Thanks!
2014/06/05
by Katrin Wodzicki
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There will take place another Career Day at the Institute of Molecular Biology in Mainz which might be interesting for some on you. There will be talks, workshops, speed coaching and an employer fair.
Modern life sciences today offer a wide range of career options for young scientists. In addition to traditional jobs in academia and the pharmaceutical industry, the number of alternative career options is increasing. Join us to hear about opportunities in biotech and the life sciences, learn how to improve your job hunting strategy, and get advice on your resume and interview skills. ADMISSION IS FREE!
More information are available here.
2014/05/09
by Katrin Wodzicki
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The DKFZ/HUB Career Day on Bioinformatics in Heidelberg is your next chance to get insights into career opportunities:
Heidelberg Unseminars in Bioinformatics (HUB) and DKFZ Postdoc Network together with the DKFZ Career Service have the pleasure to announce the next Career Day focused on Bioinformatics. You will have the opportunity to meet experts from pharma companies, research public institutes and consulting companies and hear about their career paths, how they reach their positions, important requirements for their roles, their daily tasks, and job perspectives.
More information, the program and registration are available here.
2014/04/25
by Katrin Wodzicki
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We are happy to announce the first workshop “Career Essentials: Leading without Leadership Position“.
Date: Thursday, 19 June 2014, 9:00-16:00 o’clock
Place: GZMB building, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11, seminar room 0.232
Duration: 1 day
Content:
Postdocs often work with other scientists and scientific staff without a formal leadership position. The challenge is to lead people despite the absence of managerial authority. How to deal with experienced and much older scientific and technical staff? How to lead young scientists (Master students, doctoral students) who pursue own scientific interests? How to cooperate with scientists from other institutions for applications, project management and similar?
The workshop trains how to lead people without “right of command” and how to motivate and engage scientists and staff who are not direct reports. Leading without leadership position is a frequently occurring situation and dealing with it skillful can be learned.
Registration:
If you would like to take part in the workshop, register for the GGNB Career Services here (http://ggnb-career.uni-goettingen.de/) and write an e-mail to the coordinator Katrin Wodzicki (ggnb-career@gwdg.de). The e-mail should include a short motivational statement (Why do you want to take part in the workshop?).
More information about the trainer Dr. Gudrun Henne is available here.