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Career development for postdocs

Our Postdoc Office / Career Center supports the career development of our postdoctoral researchers by offering orientation sessions, courses, career counselling, mentoring, and coaching.

Our goal is to support you in your career planning and advancement. Whether you aim at staying in academia, switch to a career in industry, science management or science communication, or whether you plan to found your own company – we offer resources and contacts to help you find the way into your individual professional future.

Contact the Postdoc Office Career Center at postdocoffice@​mdc.​de to make a career counselling appointment.

Qualification

The Training and Career Center offers a range of transferable skills courses for early career scientists including the unique ASPIRE program (Advanced Science career development Program for Innovation and Research).

ASPIRE offers specific training courses, mentoring and networking based on the individual career paths chosen by the postdocs.

Advice

We are offering mentoring programs and counseling.

The Training and Career Center organizes three mentoring programs, with postdocs as mentees in two programs and postdocs as mentors in one program. Additionally it offers counseling in the areas of strategic career planning, application support, funding, as well as competence coaching and advice in personal matters.

Networking

The Training and Career Center strives to develop academic and non-academic contacts as necessary partners for all of its offers. 

These contacts are involved in events such as, the Annual Berlin Postdoc Day, Career Pathway seminar series and Career Days. These events encourage community building amongst the scientific community within the MDC and around Berlin.