Münster Centre for Emerging Researchers (CERes)

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 summer term events starting March 10, 7 p.m. via the in-house Professional Training Programme of the University of Münster.

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!

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.

Would you have guessed that it took James Dyson more than 5,000 prototypes to create a working bagless vacuum cleaner, or that Albert Einstein’s dissertation was initially rejected? With these and further examples from his keynote speech on the topic of expectations, Jun.-Prof. Philipp Schäpers opened the event week for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers. Learn more.

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.