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2022/02/09
by Stefanie Klug
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Workshop “Interview Training for Postdocs”, 16-17 March 2023

We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshop “Interview Training for Postdocs” by Christelle Linsenmann.

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

Dates: Thursday and Friday, 16-17 March 2023
Duration: Thursday, 16 March 2023, 13-16h and Friday, 17 March 2023, 9-16h
Location: GZMB building, large seminar room 0.232, ground floor, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11 (map)
Trainer: Christelle Linsenmann

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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2022/02/08
by Stefanie Klug
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GAUSS Career Impulse Session (10 Mar 2023, 14:00-15:30) with Dr. Sukanya Sengupta (Thermo Fisher Scientific): “From academia to industry – requirements and responsibilities of an Application Specialist”

We’re happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Impulse Sessions, this time with Dr. Sukanya Sengupta, Application Specialist at Thermo Fisher Scientific.

  • Date: Friday, 10 March 2023
  • 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: Sukanya is a geochemist by academic training. After completing her master’s in geosciences in Kolkata, India in 2011, she moved to Göttingen, Germany in 2012 for her PhD. Her doctoral and post-doctoral research entailed studying oxygen isotopes and other elements in various geological samples in order to understand early Earth processes. Sukanya stepped into industry in 2020 by joining Thermo Fisher Scientific in Bremen where she is an Application Specialist for the techniques of ICP-OES and ICP-MS.  
In her new role Sukanya is active in the laboratory measuring concentrations of different elements in a variety of regularly monitored samples like food, water, soil, industrial raw materials etc. Trace elemental analysis, often covering almost all elements in the periodic table, is one of the fundamental requirements in society to ensure the products being used and manufactured can be designed to have less impurities, be more efficient, and most importantly are safe for use and/or public consumption. Sukanya is engaged in developing new methods and applications that fulfil industry as well as research requirements in this aspect. She assists customers in their daily analytical routines for performing such measurements using the latest available technology. 
Sukanya will share more details about her career path and the challenges, hurdles, as well as successes and accomplishments she has experienced during her transition from academia to industry. She will try to shed some light on the career prospects in industry for young scientists and how the skills acquired in academia can be best transferred to new roles in the industrial world to pursue new career opportunities.

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2022/02/07
by Stefanie Klug
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GAUSS Career Impulse Session (17 Feb 2023, 14:00-15:30) with Dr. Barbara Krüger (CureVac): “From a PhD in chemistry to process development for mRNA-based therapeutics”

We’re happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Impulse Sessions in the new year, this time with Dr. Barbara Krüger, Senior Scientist at CureVac.

  • Date: Friday, 17 February 2023
  • 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:

Barbara is an alumna from the IMPRS Physics of Biological and Complex Systems. She graduated in 2018 with a PhD in chemistry. During her PhD in the group of Prof. Ulf Diederichsen, she investigated the mechanism of SNARE-mediated membrane fusion by developing model peptides as SNARE protein analogues. In 2019, she moved to Glasgow, Scotland and stayed with Prof. Glenn Burley (University of Strathclyde) for a postdoc position, working on the synthesis and optimisation of gene-modulating agents intended for the treatment of mitochondria-inherited diseases. Since 2020, she has been working at CureVac SE (Tübingen, Germany) as a scientist in the process development department focussing on the purification of mRNA.

In this talk, Barbara will provide insight into her career path so far and will share her experiences on the transition from academia to industry.

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2022/02/06
by Stefanie Klug
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Workshop “Exploring the Unknown – The Company World”, 13-14 February 2023

We are happy to announce our next GAUSS Career Service workshop “Exploring the Unknown – The Company World” by Dr. Gaby Schilling.

This workshop is designed for postdoctoral scientists and late-stage PhD students who are currently applying or planning to apply for a position in industry. Getting to know different departments and their functions in a company and reflect about whether related jobs could be a good fit for your interests and profile are the goals of this workshop.

Dates: Monday and Tuesday, 13-14 February 2023
Duration: Monday, 13 February 2023, 9:00-17:00h and Tuesday, 14 February 2023, 9:00-15:30h
Location: GZMB building, large seminar room 0.232, ground floor, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11 (map)
Trainer: Dr. Gaby Schilling

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:
PhD students and postdocs with a background in natural and social sciences are usually not educated in economic thinking. Sometimes they do not know how enterprises create values. Often they have no idea what different departments contribute to the company’s economic success. This lack of knowledge makes them feel insecure about their opportunities in fields aside from research and development. That is the reason why their applications are often not convincing. In this course, participants will learn about different roles and tasks in enterprises and how employees in different departments interact and depend on each other. Playing different roles enables participants to realize for themselves what is the most fun and what fits best to them.

2022/02/05
by Stefanie Klug
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GAUSS Career Impulse Session (20 Jan 2023, 14:00-15:30) with Dr. Martin Helm (Vilua Healthcare GmbH): “From staining to training neural nets – Biologist turns Data Scientist”

We’re happy to announce our first GAUSS Career Impulse Sessions in the new year, this time with Head of Data Science Dr. Martin Helm from Vilua Healthcare GmbH.

  • Date: Friday, 20 January 2023
  • 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:

Martin Helm is an alumnus of the IMPRS Molecular Biology Research school. During his PhD, he worked on understanding synaptic transmission in the Neuro- and Sensory Physiology department of Prof. Silvio Rizzoli at the UMG. During this time, he performed microscopy and mass spectrometry analysis and developed software for data integration and image analysis, receiving his degree in 2019.

In 2020, he joined Miltenyi Biotec as a Data Scientist, working alongside 5000 colleagues to make cancer history. In this role, he developed software for the analysis of flow cytometry and clinical data, created reporting and dashboard tools as well as novel algorithms. In 2022, he moved to Vilua Healthcare GmbH to lead the Data Science team. Vilua’s vision is to use technology to help everybody live the healthiest life they can. To this end we develop mobile and web applications that give individual health recommendations. The data science team develops and maintains the central machine learning models powering these systems and provides analysis for healthcare insurances and industry customers. Martin is looking forward to share how he moved from a biological background into data science, his experiences working in large and very small companies as well as transitioning from an individual contributor to a team leader.

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2022/02/04
by Stefanie Klug
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Workshop “How to find your postdoctoral position”, 12-13 Jan 2023

We are happy to announce the first GAUSS Career Service workshop in 2023 “How to find your postdoctoral position” by Dr. Dagmar Sigurdardottir.

This workshop is intended for early postdocs and late-stage PhD students who are looking for their first or next postdoctoral position.

  • Dates: Thursday, 12 January 2023, 9:00-17:30h and Friday, 13 January 2023, 9:00-16:30h
  • Location: GZMB building, large seminar room 0.232, ground floor, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11 (map)
  • Target Group: Late-stage doctoral students looking for a Postdoc position
  • Trainer: Dr. Dagmar Sigurdardottir
  • Workshop Category: Knowing and Marketing Yourself
  • Registration: Please register here (in case you are not registered yet) and send an email to career@gauss.uni-goettingen.de including a short statement on your motivation to attend the workshop.

Workshop description

Post-doctoral positions are usually not that hard to get but finding the right one that can firmly establish a professional career is really challenging. At the same time, scientists towards the end of their PhD don’t have a lot of time to spend on the search for the right post-doctoral position. Therefore, this workshop provides a compact overview of relevant aspects and the opportunity to explore one’s own preferences. Specifically, participants learn to define their own criteria for a successful post-doctoral position, develop their targeted search and application strategy, assess the relative benefit of post-doctoral grants and prepare to harness the full potential of their post-doc interview.

By participating in workshop, you will be learn to

  • define goals for a satisfying postdoctoral position
  • identify sources of information about potential postdoctoral hosts
  • select an appropriate application strategy
  • prepare for a postdoctoral job interview
  • develop personal criteria for the best offer



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.