The registration deadline for WoCaNet 2025 has been extended to Monday, 26th May, 2025. This event is intended for students at all levels (Bachelor, Master, PhD) and professionals (early and even advanced careers).
Date: 4 – 5 June 2025
Location: MPI Faßberg, Göttingen
Registration link: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/672588.html
Events on 4th of June
There are some spaces still available for the following workshops, designed to empower you with soft skills needed to flourish in your own career journey:
- Unconscious Bias: understand and recognize unconscious thinking patterns and find out how they can be addressed to create a more inclusive environment.
- Find Your Pace: From Understanding Needs to Healthy Time Management: get some practical strategies to help you stay focused, manage stress, set healthy boundaries, and develop habits that will support your successful career in academia (or beyond!).
Due to funding support, workshops on the 4th June are only open for women and non-binary individuals. The events on June 5th are open to all genders, and everybody is welcome to join.
Events on 5th of June
Speakers will be talking about their life experiences and career journeys; may it be in academia or industry or a little bit of both:
- Petra Broistedt, Mayor of Göttingen for opening remarks
- Dr. Hanna Zwaka, Group Leader at Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
- Dr. Charlotte Navntoft, Senior Scientist at Demant
- Dr. Marieke Shölvnick, Co-Group Leader at the Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience
- Dr. Mhairi Stewart, Head of Public Engagement and Impact at the Museum for Naturkunde Berlin
- Dr. Laila Al-Halabi-Frenzel, Managing Director of Abcalis GmbH
- Dr. Marieka Nestor, Professor at Uppsala University and CEO at Akiram Therapeutics
- Prof. Dr. Christine Rose, Head of the Institute of Neurobiology in Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
We will also have a career fair over lunch time and a panel discussion at 16:15.
Career Fair with attendants from both industry and academia:
Abberior, Goenomics, Miltenyi Biotec, Sartorius, GAUSS Career Service, Göttingen International, Hertha-Sponer-College (MBExC), Hochschuldidaktik Göttingen, Ombuds Office for Good Research Practice at the University, PostDoc Network, and Alumni Association Göttingen
Panel Discussion: “Beyond the Lab: Addressing Inequality in Science”, moderated by Dr. Katrin Wodzicki, Chairman of the Staff Council of the University of Göttingen
Topics that will be discussed: discrimination, power abuse, family support & care, LGBTQIA* and Queer representation, existing measures and what needs to be changed
Panelists:
- Dr. Tuğçe Aral, developmental psychologist, Co-Host of (Re)searching Diversity Podcast and Postdoctoral researcher at University of Potsdam
- Dr. Sandra Klausing, Head of Product Development Cell Line, Media, Testing Solutions (CMTS) at Sartorius
- Dr. Julia Gruhlich, project leader at the Institute for Diversity Research at the University of Göttingen
- Johanna Prien-Kaplan, Project Coordinator at the Equal Opportunities Office at the Hannover Medical School (MHH)
For details about the topics that will be discussed by each speaker, check out our main website at https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/203891.html.
