
Career Advice
For PhD students and PostDocs
Towards this goal, the MDC provides a world-renowned research facility. The MDC’s faculty of excellent academics and the state-of-the-art research infrastructure offer an excellent environment for high-class scientific training. In addition, early-career scientists are supported with various career development activities.
Workshops
In-house professional development workshops and courses on various topics such as grant and fellowship applications, leadership and managerial skills, guidance on how to establish an independent laboratory, ethics (incl. animal rights issues), teaching, etc.
Career Day, an annual on-campus full-day information and networking event
Seminar Series
Regular “Career Pathways” series of talks in which professionals (including MDC research alumni) from both industry and academia share their work experiences
Mentoring
Dedicated support for female scientists, such as an intensive 18-month MDC Mentoring Program and the Mentoring Program of the Helmholtz Association