After your doctorate, a wide range of career paths are open to you: In addition to preparing for a professorship, university management, business, and politics also offer attractive perspectives. It may not be easy, though, to find the right path for you.The Jenny Aloni Centre for Early Career Researchers supports you in finding your way with the 'Career Spotlights' event series. At the events, you  get to know various career paths open to you after your doctorate and to talk to people who have already taken them. What is more, the Career Spotlights are also a great opportunity to exchange ideas and network with other doctoral researchers and postdocs!

After completing a doctorate, researchers in qualification phases have a wide range of career paths open to them: In addition to preparing for a university professorship, science management, business and politics also offer attractive prospects. As part of the event series "Career Spotlight: From PhD to...", participants have the opportunity to familiarise themselves with the various career paths after the doctorate and to talk to people who have followed them.

The next Career Spotlight in January 2025 will focus on the topic of balancing parenthood, care, and an academic career. A male and female researcher will talk about their personal career paths. Following the content input, there will be the opportunity to ask questions, but also to exchange ideas and network with other doctoral candidates and postdocs.

Details:

• November 2024: Akademischer (Ober)Rat (with Dr.-Ing. Steffen Jesinghausen, Akademischer Oberrat, Fachgruppe Partikelverfahrenstechnik)
• July 2024: From PhD to Academic Management - A career path for me? (with Dr.in Anda-Lisa Harmening, Manager of the Graduate Center of the Faculty of Arts and Humanites; Laura Maring, Consultant for Diversity; and Dr. Alexandra Wiebke, Head of the Academic Career Development Office)
• May 2024: Befristungen in der Promotions- und Postdoc-Phase und das Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz (mit Dunja Denecke & Simone Hansmeier, SG. 4.2)
• January 2024: Junior Research Group Leader (with Dr Zahra Raissi, Junior Research Group Leader in the Department of Computer Science)
• February 2023: Research Stays Abroad and International Contacts (with Prof. Miriam Strube, Department of English and American Studies, and Prof. Jan Sperling, Department of Physics)
• November 2022: Junior Professorship (with Junior Prof. Sebastian Peitz, Department of Computer Science)