How to Advance Your Research Career and Get Funding
Becoming a postdoc is a pivotal, yet highly selective career step towards research independence and tenure. Preparing for future research leadership, the workshop helps early career researchers to assess their current position, align career aspirations with longer-term research goals and develop a road map for achieving them in the individual setting. Practice scenarios provide guidance on how to exploit funding opportunities effectively to build resources and capabilities for further career advancement.
By participating in the workshop, you will be better equipped to:
- understand the critical success factors for a sustainable research career,
- apply strategic approaches to advance both your career and your research,
- design fundable projects for different research settings,
- identify and exploit funding opportunities,
- develop yourself as a principal investigator.
Details
Date:
Tue, 21 January 2025, 09:00 AM - 03:00 PM, online
Wed, 22 January 2025, 09:00 AM - 03:00 PM, online
Requirements for participation:
- Attendance: Participation is only possible, if you can guarantee an uninterrupted attendance.
- Attention: Online events require the same undivided attention as face-to-face events. Please refrain from parallel activities.
- Interaction: In general HRA events are interactive and require your active participation.
- Visibility: Please turn on your camera, if possible. Especially in our workshops, this is essential for a productive working environment.
Target groups:
postdocs, junior research group leaders, w1 professors
Organizer:
Hamburg Research Academy
Trainer:
Dr. Thomas Koch is a research management consultant and certified business trainer and coach. He provides hands-on workshops and individual guidance for researchers to realize their research ideas and career objectives. Holding a PhD in physical chemistry from the UK, he has over 10 years of international experience as a researcher and over 12 years of experience as a research manager and senior administrator at major German universities.
Maximum number of participants:
12