Münster Centre for Emerging Researchers (CERes)

You have completed your doctorate – whether recently or some time ago – and would like to help us enhance our offers for postdocs at the University of Münster by sharing your insights? Then we would greatly appreciate it, if you could take about 15 minutes to tell us about your needs and goals as a postdoc, along with your ideas and suggestions for our work. The survey includes topics such as working situation, job satisfaction, career planning, and training needs.
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The Münster Centre for Emerging Researchers (CERes) is looking for a Student Assistant (SHK or SHB, 10 hrs/week) to support innovative programs for the career development of doctoral and postdoctoral researchers. Bring your ideas to the table, contribute to organising events and creating information materials, and work as part of an open, collaborative team!
Are you interested? We look forward to receiving your application! Requirements, deadlines, and contact details can be found here.
 

In eight interactive Zoom sessions, you will learn through hands-on exercises and case studies how to use generative AI tools efficiently, effectively, and innovatively – including for your literature review process, research methodology, innovation, teaching, and writing. This training is ideal for curious researchers with little to no prior knowledge, as well as those with basic knowledge and experience. Sign up now!

Be part of it: Attend workshops on generic skills, good scientific practice or career development. Visit lecture and event series and profit from new formats such as coworking or digital information events. You can reserve your spot in our winter term events now via the in-house Professional Training Programme of the University of Münster.

What actually happens behind the doors of professorial appointments committee? Have excellent researchers ever met a Reviewer 2? Unwritten rules, unspoken expectations, unofficial standards, hidden messages – some call it the “hidden curriculum” or implicit knowledge. We bare all! Learn more about this hybrid series entitled “Spill the tea!”. 

Would you like to take a short break and network across faculties, but at the same time wish to spend some time outdoors and go for a walk? If so, our Walk & Talk series is the right choice for you!
We meet during lunch time and exchange ideas on chosen topics in a casual atmosphere while walking in the Botanical Garden. Find more information on our Walk & Talk series.

Early Career Researchers of the University of Münster can apply for travel grants for laboratory and/or research visits as well as active conference and summer school participations.

The SAIL Mobility Fund funds research visits abroad of doctoral researchers and postdocs up to three years after their doctorate who have little or no access to funding.

Students and doctoral researchers can apply for the Santander-Mobility Fund for research visits in Germany and abroad.

Have you earned your doctorate from the University of Münster or been here for a research stay and are you currently working at an academic institution in Europe? Would you like to come back to the University of Münster?

As part of the ‘RE.AL - Research Alumni Strategy’, the Researchers & Staff Department of the International Office is inviting applications for the new 'RE.connect' fellowships for international research alumni of the University of Münster.