How to become a professor! Academic Career planning and development
Target group: The seminar is particularly suitable for doctoral candidates in the advanced phase and
postdocs in the early phase (approx. 1st-4th postdoc year) and is geared towards participants
who are interested in an academic career in Germany and would like to find out more about
the opportunities and requirements.
The aim of the seminar is, on the one hand, to provide you with a framework for reflecting on
your own professional motives. On the other hand, the seminar offers knowledge, background
and orientation for planning and developing the next steps towards a long-term academic career
in Germany.
Questions will be discussed such as:
- What long-term career options does the academic job market offer for researchers and what are the
actual chances here?
- What requirements and criteria should be met for this career path?
- When are which tasks particularly important? What has the highest priority?
- How important is the habilitation? What time frame is appropriate?
The seminar will inform you about the central requirements (also beyond publications and third-party funding) and milestones for an academic career. Furthermore, the seminar will provide you with concrete tips and advice on both the weighting of these requirements and on strategic considerations during the postdoc phase on the path to a professorship. Building on this, the seminar offers you the opportunity to take stock and reflect on your own academic profile and ideally derive the next important steps from this.
Please note: The seminar focuses in particular on the German academic system.
Methods:
- Interactive input and short presentations by the lecturer
- Reflection on professional motives
- Small group reflection
- Structured analysis of the academic profile
Speaker: Dr. Dieta Kuchenbrandt, Schain und Kuchenbrandt Leipzig
This course will be held in English.