Workshop: Career prospects in science for doctoral candidates and postdocs (in German)

Dr. Alexandra Franzke

Friday, 14.06.2024, 09:00-17:00 hrs

The workshop is aimed at doctoral and postdoctoral researchers who want orientation on the framework conditions of an academic career and are looking for clues to guide their own career in the academic system.

On the one hand, the workshop offers information on the given as well as the plannable framework conditions of an academic career. The general framework conditions of the WissZeitVG will be highlighted, different forms of employment and funding as well as the importance of third-party funding for the academic portfolio and academic prestige will be discussed and individual framework conditions will be clarified.

Furthermore, various career building blocks on the way to a permanent position/professorship and the possibilities for increasing opportunities and minimizing risks are presented. Options for strategic planning will also be discussed.

However, the focus of the workshop is on the individual assessment of the participants and the strategic development of their own career portfolio:

Using a preparatory written reflection task, participants concretize their own current academic profile so that this becomes the starting point in the workshop from which further steps can be derived and planned with a view to their academic career.

The speaker:

Dr. Alexandra Franzke studied biology at the Universities of Göttingen and Jena and received her doctorate in biology from the University of Bielefeld.

After a period as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bielefeld and in the rainforest on the west coast of Ecuador and later as a research manager and career consultant at the University of Freiburg, she worked as a freelance coach and trainer in the (further) qualification of employees and managers.

Since 2018 she has been a career coach, trainer and coordinator at the Graduate Center of TU Dortmund University and for the Research Academy Ruhr; since 2021 she has been head of the School of Integrated Climate and Earth System Sciences at the University of Hamburg.

Venue:

Seminar room of the Graduate School
"City-Passage Lindenthal", 1st floor
Dürener Straße 89, 50931 Cologne.

Please note: The room is not barrier-free. If you need barrier-free access, please let us know so that we can organize a suitable room.

Registration:

In order to have enough space for the exercises and feedback, the number of participants is limited to approx. 10 people.

Participation is initially reserved for people who would also like to present their research project. Any remaining places will be made available later for other interested parties.
We therefore ask you to register using the registration form.