HEPP-Seminar 2025
 

HEPP-Workshop "Oral Examinations"

HEPP
  • Datum: 15.01.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 09:00 - 17:00
  • Vortragende(r): Dr. Peter Schröder, Golin Wissenschaftsmanagement Berlin
  • The trainer: Dr. Peter Schröder, Düsseldorf, is a biologist and IPMA-certified project manager. After working in the field of biomedical fundamental research and application-oriented development he became self-employed with “brain4hire” in 2011. He has authored numerous scientific publications, has a long-standing experience in teaching science and is an experienced trainer on soft skills.
  • Ort: virtual
  • Raum: Zoom
  • Gastgeber: IPP
  • Kontakt: hepp@ipp.mpg.de
After completion of the thesis, personally defending it presents a new challenge for the doctoral candidate. For many, oral examinations are associated with nerves and worries about blackouts. However, they quickly lose their horror if systematic preparation is started in good time. [mehr]

26. Career Dialogue "d-fine"

Career Dialogue
  • Datum: 23.01.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 15:30 - 16:30
  • Vortragender: d-fine
  • Ort: Zoom
  • Raum: For zoom details write an email to careercenter@ipp.mpg.de
  • Gastgeber: Career Center
  • Kontakt: careercenter@ipp.mpg.de
For the Career Dialogue we invite people with different backgrounds who will initially tell about themselves, their career or their networks and will then answer your questions and engage in a dialogue with you. The purpose of the Career Dialogue is to provide insight into different career paths, to bring you in contact with people outside IPP and to enhance our networks in all directions - science, industry, entrepreneurship, science management. [mehr]

Workshop "PhD supervision"

Career Center Workshop
  • Datum: 24.01.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 09:00 - 17:00
  • Vortragende(r): Prof. Carmen Ulrich, Golin Wissenschaftsmanagement Berlin
  • Professor Dr. Carmen Ulrich, Wuppertal, is a consultant for internationalisation and quality management at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal and a freelance lecturer, author, and business coach with more than 20 years of experience at various universities in Germany and abroad. Her fields of professional activities include academic teaching [literary and cultural studies], project management, personal and scientific advice, and training. She works primarily in the areas of interculturality, diversity, conflict coaching, leadership and team communication, time management and career counselling.
  • Ort: virtual
  • Raum: Zoom
  • Gastgeber: IPP
  • Kontakt: careercenter@ipp.mpg.de
The supervision of doctoral candidates is a challenge, an opportunity and a privilege all at once. But how to ensure productive supervision? [mehr]

CC-Workshop "Proposal writing"

Career Center Workshop
  • Datum: 30.01.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 13:30 - 17:00
  • Vortragende(r): Andreas Schulte, Golin Wissenschaftsmanagement Berlin
  • Andreas Schulte, Gießen, studied philosophy and German philology in Heidelberg as well as journalism at the University of Hohenheim. He has been active in science management for over ten years, since 2010 as a research advisor at the Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen. Here he is responsible for research funding and advice for researchers applying for third party funding. This includes both funding for individual research as well as acquisition and implementation of larger joint research projects. He focuses especially on the financial support for junior researchers.
  • Ort: virtual
  • Raum: Zoom
  • Gastgeber: IPP
  • Kontakt: careercenter@ipp.mpg.de
Good projects need money in order to be put into practice. In light of limited public funding, the securing of sources of financial support – whether classic science-funding organisations, foundations or companies – is an important task, especially in the academic and non-profit sectors. But for many early-career scientists writing grant applications is a difficult task. [mehr]

CC-Workshop "Job Applications in & outside academia"

Career Center Workshop
  • Datum: 07.02.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 09:00 - 17:00
  • Vortragende: Jacqueline von Saldern, golin Wissenschaftsmanagement, Berlin
  • Jacqueline von Saldern, Munich, is a trainer and career counselor since 2006 with a special focus on international mid-career and senior professionals in the fields of academia, public policy and non-profit. Her topics of expertise include career development, professional orientation, applications, competency profile, and networking as well as leadership, intercultural communication, and conflict management. Her special focus is thereby directed towards profiling and empowerment of women. She held leadership positions within the NGO sector for over 15 years, most recently at the Tönissteiner Kreis, the American Academy in Berlin, and the Robert Bosch Foundation. With a German-American background raised bilingually in New York and over 30 years of international experience she works in both languages.
  • Ort: online
  • Raum: Zoom
  • Gastgeber: Career Center
  • Kontakt: careercenter@ipp.mpg.de
In the workshop the necessary application standards are conveyed and new developments are explained. With the help of structured input and selected examples from practice, the participants are prepared for a successful approach to the application process. [mehr]

Career Day: Transition Possible - Career Perspectives for Postdocs

Career Day
  • Datum: 27.03.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 09:00 - 18:00
  • Vortragende(r): various
  • Ort: Zoom
  • Raum: zoom details after registration
  • Gastgeber: Career Center
  • Kontakt: careercenter@ipp.mpg.de
Look forward to panel discussions, networking opportunities and get in touch with renowned international companies from sectors like AI development, energy supply, industrial R&D, consulting, chemical industry, science management, pharma industry and many more. On top of it all you can choose one out of different workshops to best be prepared for your switch into industry! [mehr]

CC-Workshop "Networking in the academic context - Creating perspectives through contacts by traditional and digital means"

Career Center Workshop
  • Datum: 27.03.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 13:00 - 17:00
  • Vortragende: Franziska Trischler, golin Wissenschaftmanagement, Berlin
  • Dr. Cornelia Altenburg, Berlin, is a historian. She is a freelance trainer and communication consultant. She teaches people in science, politics and companies in writing and communicating. She facilitates communication processes in small and in big groups.
  • Ort: Zoom Meeting
  • Raum: zoom details after registration
  • Gastgeber: Career Center
  • Kontakt: careercenter@ipp.mpg.de
In the light of growing complexity in the knowledge society, the ‘know-who’ is gaining in importance next to the ‘know-how’. Fortunately, in recent years the possibilities to make quick and target focused contact, be it face-to-face or via social media, have increased in number and significance. With just a few clicks you can reach out to colleagues, experts, potential employers, funders and business partners of all kind. [mehr]

27. Career Dialogue "Felix Warmer"

Career Dialogue
  • postponed to 27 March 15:30
  • Datum: 27.03.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 15:30 - 16:30
  • Vortragender: Felix Warmer
  • Felix Warmer obtained his MSc in Physics at the Universität Leipzig, Germany, while carrying out his master thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald, Germany – the fusion research institute that is hosting the advanced stellarator Wendelstein 7-X. He continued to work there as a PhD being awarded “summa cum laude” by the Technische Universität Berlin in 2016. He then obtained a Feodor Lynen Research Grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, which he carried out with the support from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science at the National Institute for Fusion Science in Japan. He then went back to work for the Max Planck Institute in Greifswald, first as a postdoctoral fellow and soon after as a permanent staff scientist. In 2022 he was appointed as a tenured Assistant Professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology. This was soon afterwards followed by a W2 appointment by the Max Planck Society and he is now leading a research group that works on Stellarator Reactor studies back at IPP in Greifswald.
  • Ort: Zoom
  • Raum: For zoom details write an email to careercenter@ipp.mpg.de
  • Gastgeber: Career Center
  • Kontakt: careercenter@ipp.mpg.de
For the Career Dialogue we invite people with different backgrounds who will initially tell about themselves, their career or their networks and will then answer your questions and engage in a dialogue with you. The purpose of the Career Dialogue is to provide insight into different career paths, to bring you in contact with people outside IPP and to enhance our networks in all directions - science, industry, entrepreneurship, science management. [mehr]

Introduction to MPCDF Services (MPCDF)

MPCDF Workshop
  • Datum: 15.05.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 16:30
  • Vortragende(r): MPCDF Application group
  • Ort: online
  • Raum: Zoom
  • Gastgeber: MPCDF
  • Kontakt: training@mpcdf.mpg.de
How to start with the MPCDF systems and services [mehr]

28. Career Dialogue "Tobias Hartmann"

Career Dialogue
  • postponed to July 10th, 2025
  • Datum: 10.07.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 15:30 - 16:30
  • Vortragender: Tobias Hartmann
  • Tobias Hartmann studied physics and mathematics at the University of Augsburg and did a PhD in physics at the Technical University of Munich. During his doctoral studies, he worked as research associate at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching and as visiting scientist at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, focusing on the conceptual design of future fusion power plants. After positions as research associate at TUM’s Institute for Renewable and Sustainable Energy Systems and the foundation of a start-up focusing on tech-enabled consulting services for the energy industry, he transitioned into management consulting. Since 2016, he has been working at McKinsey & Company in Munich, where he is now an Associate Partner. He is supporting companies particularly in the software and clean-tech industries focusing on strategy, growth, and commercial excellence topics.
  • Ort: Zoom
  • Raum: For zoom details write an email to careercenter@ipp.mpg.de
  • Gastgeber: Career Center
  • Kontakt: careercenter@ipp.mpg.de
For the Career Dialogue we invite people with different backgrounds who will initially tell about themselves, their career or their networks and will then answer your questions and engage in a dialogue with you. The purpose of the Career Dialogue is to provide insight into different career paths, to bring you in contact with people outside IPP and to enhance our networks in all directions - science, industry, entrepreneurship, science management. [mehr]

CC-Workshop "Body language"

Career Center Workshop
  • postponed to 13 Aug 2025
  • Datum: 13.08.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 09:00 - 17:00
  • Vortragende: Franziska Trischler, golin Wissenschaftmanagement, Berlin
  • Franziska Trischler, Freiburg, was born in the United States, moved to Germany in her early childhood and graduated at the University of Koblenz-Landau, majoring in Sprechwissenschaft [speech science and interpersonal communication] in 2009. She has been working as a freelance communication trainer for 12 years, giving individual lessons, workshops and seminars in the areas of rhetoric, recitation, voice training and interpersonal communication. She is also an academic staff member for speech and interpersonal communication at the Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg and has worked as a lecturer for various universities.
  • Ort: Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Boltzmannstr. 2, Garching
  • Raum: WL-Saal
  • Gastgeber: Career Center
  • Kontakt: careercenter@ipp.mpg.de
This workshop provides basic knowledge about physical expression and trains observational and implementation skills. [mehr]

CC-Workshop "Stressfreies Sehen am Bildschirm"

Career Center Workshop
  • Datum: 17.09.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 10:30 - 12:00
  • Vortragender: Friedrich Hasse
  • Friedrich Hasse, Improved Reading Berlin, abgeschlossenes Studium (Philosophie/Geschichte) an der FU Berlin, HU Berlin und der Université Paris I (Sorbonne). Seit 2014 ist er ausgebildeter Visualtrainer für Stressfreies Sehen am Bildschirm und Mitgründer der Firma visiowert (www.visiowert.de).
  • Ort: online
  • Raum: zoom details after registration
  • Gastgeber: Career Center
  • Kontakt: careercenter@ipp.mpg.de
unterhaltsamer und staunenswerter Vortrag über eines der brennendsten Themen im Berufsalltag – Stress durch Bildschirmarbeit [mehr]

CC-Workshop "Time Management"

Career Center Workshop
  • Datum: 18.09.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 09:00 - 17:00
  • Vortragende: Prof. Dr. Annette Kolb, golin Wissenschaftsmanagement Berlin
  • Professor Dr. Annette Kolb, Bad Camberg, is a biologist with 20 years’ experience in research and teaching. Until 2014 she was an associate professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. She has published more than 50 scientific articles and has extensive experience in project management and fundraising. In 2008 she was awarded the 1822 University Prize for Excellent Teaching. Currently she works as a science coach and trainer with a focus on academic career development.
  • Ort: virtual
  • Raum: Zoom
  • Gastgeber: Career Center
  • Kontakt: careercenter@ipp.mpg.de
Research, meetings, professional development, and not least private arrangements: Time pressure results in many things only being half done. In the end there is not enough time for the important tasks and you are left with the uncomfortable feeling of again not having managed everything. It is however not difficult to improve dealing with the personal time budget. Through the implementation of established time management methods, individual disturbances can be minimised, priorities can be set and planning horizons can be determined in order to make the own work more effective. [mehr]

29. Career Dialogue "Thomas Eich"

Career Dialogue
  • Datum: 18.09.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 15:30 - 16:30
  • Vortragender: Thomas Eich
  • Ort: Zoom
  • Raum: For zoom details write an email to careercenter@ipp.mpg.de
  • Gastgeber: Career Center
  • Kontakt: careercenter@ipp.mpg.de
For the Career Dialogue we invite people with different backgrounds who will initially tell about themselves, their career or their networks and will then answer your questions and engage in a dialogue with you. The purpose of the Career Dialogue is to provide insight into different career paths, to bring you in contact with people outside IPP and to enhance our networks in all directions - science, industry, entrepreneurship, science management. [mehr]

MPCDF Online Course on "Meet MPCDF: Diagonalization of Sparse Matrices""

Career Center Workshop
  • Datum: 02.10.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 15:30 - 16:30
  • Vortragende(r): MPCDF Application group
  • Ort: online
  • Raum: Zoom
  • Gastgeber: MPCDF
We encourage our users to propose further topics of their interest, e.g., in the domains of high-performance computing, data management, artificial intelligence, or high-performance data analytics. Please send an Email to training@mpcdf.mpg.de. [mehr]

MPCDF Online Course on "Introduction on MPCDF services"

Career Center Workshop
  • Datum: 16.10.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 16:30
  • Vortragende(r): MPCDF Application group
  • Ort: online
  • Raum: Zoom
  • Gastgeber: MPCDF
Topics comprise login, file systems, HPC systems, the Slurm batch system, and the MPCDF services remote visualization, Jupyter notebooks and DataShare, together with a concluding question & answer session. No registration is required, just connect at the time of the workshop via the zoom link provided on our webpage. [mehr]

CC-Workshop "Project Management"

Career Center Workshop
  • Datum: 16.10.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 17:00 - 19:15
  • Vortragender: Volker Kraus
  • Volker Kraus worked at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Ulm University. Volker did research in Theoretical and Computational Physics. He joined the Institute of Experimental Physics, did Research on Polymer Physics and achieved a PhD. He returned to the Institute of Theoretical Physics to proceed on Molecular Dynamics Simulation topics. He then left in 1994 for aerospace industry. Since 2020 he is Senior Lecturer for Project Management at Ulm University Faculty of Natural Sciences.
  • Ort: online
  • Raum: Zoom
  • Gastgeber: Career Center
  • Kontakt: careercenter@ipp.mpg.de
Are you going to take full responsibility for a project in your company or institution and are looking for a suitable monitoring concept and framework for planning, realisation and supervision? In our course you will learn the necessary techniques and processes based on best practices of the project management community and apply them practically in examples. [mehr]

Workshop "Scientist need More! Constructing your Career: Hands-On Decision Making"

Career Center Workshop
  • Datum: 24.10.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 09:00 - 17:00
  • Vortragender: Volker Kraus
  • Daniel Mertens heads a junior group at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and a Max‐Eder Group at the University Hospital Ulm. He is also a trainer for transferable skills with Schiller & Mertens
  • Ort: online
  • Raum: Zoom
  • Gastgeber: Career Center
  • Kontakt: careercenter@ipp.mpg.de
A balanced and structured program of exercises and review sessionsthat will provide a variety of life learning situations. [mehr]

CC-Workshop "Präsentation: Ich mach’ Schluss mit Death by Powerpoint"

Career Center Workshop
  • Beginn: 05.11.2025 09:00
  • Ende: 06.11.2025 13:00
  • Vortragende: Dr. Petra Nieckchen
  • Ort: IPP Greifswald
  • Raum: Günter-Grieger-Hörsaal (5.11.) und 6.0-001 (6.11.)
  • Gastgeber: Career Center
  • Kontakt: careercenter@ipp.mpg.de
Kennen Sie das? Ihr Vortrag stößt auf wenig Resonanz beim Publikum. Ihr Anliegen verpufft. Obwohl Sie mit Herzblut Ihre Folien gefüllt haben. Nach diesem Workshop genießen Sie die Bühne und das inspirierende Gefühl weghört worden zu sein. [mehr]

MPCDF Online Course on "Meet MPCDF: Possibilities for Enhanced Security in Gitlab""

Career Center Workshop
  • Datum: 06.11.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 15:30 - 16:30
  • Vortragende(r): MPCDF Application group
  • Ort: online
  • Raum: Zoom
  • Gastgeber: MPCDF
We encourage our users to propose further topics of their interest, e.g., in the domains of high-performance computing, data management, artificial intelligence, or high-performance data analytics. Please send an Email to training@mpcdf.mpg.de. [mehr]

CC-Workshop "Networking in the professional context"

Career Center Workshop
  • Datum: 07.11.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 09:30 - 17:00
  • Vortragende: Cornelia Altenburg, golin Wissenschaftsmanagement Berlin
  • Dr. Cornelia Altenburg, Berlin, is a historian. She is a freelance trainer and communication consultant. She teaches people in science, politics and companies in writing and communicating. She facilitates communication processes in small and in big groups. Her clients are for example the Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, the Parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, and the TÜV Hessen.
  • Ort: IPP Garching
  • Raum: H1, WL-Saal
  • Gastgeber: Career Center
  • Kontakt: careercenter@ipp.mpg.de
The workshop will focus on - How to network- My networking strategy- Conversation and small talk exercises- Using LinkedIn and alternatives to it [mehr]

CC-Workshop "The Seyens Method™ — Visual Communication Training for Scientists"g

Career Center Workshop
  • Datum: 21.11.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 09:00 - 13:30
  • Vortragender: Jernej Zupanc
  • Dr. Jernej Zupanc is the Founder and a Trainer of Seyens Ltd. He did his doctorate and was a postdoc in computer science at University of Ljubljana and was a Fulbright Scholar at Northeastern University, Boston. Before his full-time professional dedication to training he worked at a startup as Head of Computer Vision and as an Evaluator of Horizon 2020 projects for the EC. He also consulted companies on European funding, and helped 20 clients receive over €25 million in public and private funding. His professional profile is on LinkedIn.
  • Ort: online
  • Raum: Zoom
  • Gastgeber: Career Center
  • Kontakt: careercenter@ipp.mpg.de
The goal is to help graduate students, postdocs, researchers, and group leaders present their ideas and findings visually — in ways that are clear, engaging, and easily understood by both scientific and non-scientific audiences. This training also equips them to confidently communicate throughout their careers in academia, industry, and beyond. [mehr]

MPCDF Online Course on "Python for HPC""

  • Beginn: 03.12.2025 09:00
  • Ende: 04.12.2025 16:30
  • Vortragende(r): MPCDF Application group
  • Ort: online
  • Raum: Zoom
  • Gastgeber: MPCDF
We encourage our users to propose further topics of their interest, e.g., in the domains of high-performance computing, data management, artificial intelligence, or high-performance data analytics. Please send an Email to training@mpcdf.mpg.de. [mehr]

30. Career Dialogue "Klara Höfler"

Career Dialogue
  • Datum: 04.12.2025
  • Uhrzeit: 15:30 - 16:30
  • Vortragende: Klara Höfler
  • Ort: Zoom
  • Raum: For zoom details write an email to careercenter@ipp.mpg.de
  • Gastgeber: Career Center
  • Kontakt: careercenter@ipp.mpg.de
For the Career Dialogue we invite people with different backgrounds who will initially tell about themselves, their career or their networks and will then answer your questions and engage in a dialogue with you. The purpose of the Career Dialogue is to provide insight into different career paths, to bring you in contact with people outside IPP and to enhance our networks in all directions - science, industry, entrepreneurship, science management. [mehr]
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