Our support focuses on bolstering and expanding personal competence and providing guidance for a successful career.
Workshops
A successful career is very rarely a result of coincidence. Rather, it has to be planned early enough in a strategic way. Competent and experienced support is of course welcome, and the Graduate Services of the universities are already making allowances for that. The JRA supplements these offers by a choice of workshops for PhD students and postdocs.
Career paths after the doctorate:
Online seminar series in which former doctoral students and postdocs of the cluster present their current job.
4 February 2025, 4 p.m.: Data Scientist in a service provider
3 June 2025, 4 p.m.: Innovation engineer in systems automation
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Lab visits abroad
Junior scientists are encouraged to expand their knowledge and professional network by a research stay abroad. The JRA supports a lab visit for several months during the PhD project or postdoctoral phase. Funding is granted for travel expenses and as “foreign allowance” covering additional costs for living in the host country.
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Individual career coaching
PhD candidates (during the last year of the doctoral project), postdocs and newly minted junior group leaders can receive professional support for exploring career options. By reflecting on your personality, coaching supports self-assessment and the setting of suitable goals in order to raise your professional profile. You are free to choose the topic to work on, like improving rhetoric skills or assuming leadership responsibility. In any case, a successful coaching requires from you being frank and curious about new horizons.
Participants can select their personal coach from our list according to career aspiration or sympathy. Coaching sessions take place as face-to-face or online meetings.
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