Career Spotlights
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!
| By the way: Do you know the JobTalk event series? This online format organised by the universities in the NRW Staff Development Network presents selected areas of work outside the university. Participation can be credited in the certificate programme ‘Qualification for Professional Fields in Business and Society’. |
Career Spotlight: Working for a foundation
The Career Spotlight on 24 June 2025 will present working at a foundation. Dr Selahattin Danisman from the Volkswagen Foundation will talk about his personal career path and share his experiences.
Following the content input, there will be an opportunity to ask questions.
Details:
| Date | 24 June 2025, 13:00-14:30 |
| Room | Zoom |
| Event language | If there is sufficient demand, this event can take place in English. Please indicate your preferred language in the Comment section of the registration form. |
Past Career Spotlights
- May 2025: Professor at a University of Applied Sciences (with Christiane Lübke, Professoror for Environment & Society at TH OWL)
- 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)
