Virtual Career Day for Postdocs 2024
Look forward to panel discussions, networking opportunities and get in touch with renowned international companies from sectors like science management, consulting, chemistry, energy. You will learn how valuable your skills earned as postdoc are for industry and how you can make them more visible. In the afternoon you can attend one workshop and prepare yourself for your switch into industry!
Source: GEOMAR
Date: April 25, 2024 I 9am - 6pm
Program in the morning
08:50 Opening of zoom room
09:00 Greeting by Friederike Eickhoff (moderator)
09:10 Keynote "Transformation starts with yourself" by Katrin Busch-Holfelder
Discover your possibilities: From science to industry. Scientific capabilities and experiences combined with future skills enable a successful start in industry. Get motivated and activate your resources to take the next step on your career ladder. Learn what is important and how you can market your potential to reach a new level. Join us and be inspired by new perspectives: the job market needs you!
09:30 Main Panel Discussion with company representatives
- Katrin Busch-Holfelder (Keynote-Speaker)
- Dr. Edouard Fouché (Siemens AG)
- Dr. Verena Arndt (Grünenthal GmbH)
- Simon Schlierf (GULP)
- Dr. Jan Peter Schupsky (Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit)
10:15 Coffee break
10:30 Subpanels - 1st round: Representatives from recruiting and former postdocs share their experiences for a successful start.
room 1: Siemens AG (data science, KI development)
with Dr. Edouard Fouché (Data Scientist for Product Innovation) Multinational technology conglomerate. Siemens operations encompass automation and digitalization in the process and manufacturing industries, intelligent infrastructure for buildings and distributed energy systems, rail transport solutions, as well as health technology and digital healthcare services.
room 2: EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG (energy supplier)
with Dr. Theresa Hecht (HR, Recruiter) and Dr. Geoffroy Chaussonnet (Quantitative Modelling & Structuring – EnBW Trading Business Unit)
EnBW represents the energy transition more than perhaps any other company. As a former classic energy enterprise it has evolved into an innovative and sustainable energy company with nearly 28.000 emloyees and locations throughout Germany as well as France, Denmark, Sweden, UK and Turkey. It´s business focus lies on renewable energies, electricity grids, telecommunications networks, e-mobility and smart, sustainable energy solutions for their customers.room 3: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH (semiconductors/phy/tech)
with Dr. Michael Becker (Projekt Lead) and Rebecca Wöhrle (Teamlead R&D)
The likelihood that you are able to read this website thanks to ZEISS SMT technologies is very high. More than 80 percent of all microchips around the world are produced with lithography optics from the ZEISS Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology (SMT) segment. As a technology leader in the field of semiconductor technology, our innovations enable ever smaller, more powerful and more energy-efficient microchips – and so it is that we play a decisive role in shaping the age of digitalization.room 4: d-fine (consulting)
with Nicola Gully (HR, Recruiter) and Dr. Jan-Niclas Gruse (Senior Consultant) Imagine the power of more than 1,500 physicists, mathematicians and computer scientists working as part of a European company with over 20 years of service excellence focused on data science, technology and mathematical modelling. That’s d-fine.
room 5: Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit gGmbH (Technical Safety Organisation for Nuclear Safety)
with Dr. Jan Peter Schupsky (Technical Expert & Project Manager) The Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit (GRS) is an independent company specialized in the safety of nuclear facilities. GRS offers comprehensive consulting services as well as research and development projects in the field of nuclear safety. Their aim is to contribute to the safe use of nuclear energy through expertise and innovation.
room 6: Globalfoundries (semiconductor development)
with Hans-Jürgen Neufing (Talent Acquisition) and Dr. Georg Talut (Director, Head of quality Europe) Globalfoundries is a US semiconductor manufacturer conducting contract manufacturing. The company operates production facilities on three continents - in Dresden, Singapore, Malta, Saratoga County (New York) and Burlington (Vermont) in the USA. GF in Dresden is one of the largest semiconductor manufacturers in Europe with about 3700 employees from 47 nations, 52,000 m² of clean room space and a wafer throughput (300 mm) of about 850,000 wafers per year.
room 7: Grünenthal GmbH (pharmaceutical company)
with Dr. Verena Arndt (Scientific Director, Head Human Diseases Mechanisms) As a family-owned research-based pharmaceutical company, we employ around 4,500 people in research, administration and production as well as in the sales force in 28 countries. We are a medium-sized company that covers the entire value chain and provides medicines for patients in around 100 countries. Our goal is to improve the lives of patients with our medicines and therapeutic solutions to bring our vision of a world without pain one step closer.
room 8: Novartis/Bayer (pharmaceutical companies)
with Markus Leffin (Recruiter at Bayer) and Dr. Peter Nacke (Associate Director Launch Medical Information at Novartis) Bayer and Novartis, global leaders in healthcare and life sciences, pioneer innovation to improve lives worldwide. Bayer's legacy of over 150 years drives advancements in healthcare and agriculture. Novartis focuses on innovative medicines and eye care, reimagining healthcare to meet unmet medical needs and extend lives.
11:20 Subpanels - 2nd round: Take the opportunity to look at another company (see rooms as in round 1).
12:00 Wrap up
12:15 Meet a career counselor: Use the last 30 minutes of the event to clarify final remaining questions in open group consultation sessions on the following topics:
- room 1: Know your strengths
- room 2: Spruce up your resume
- room 3: Upgrade your professional online profile
Every question is welcome.
12:45 Lunch break
Program in the afternoon
Workshops on career specific topics such as self-marketing, career planning and job seeking, success factors in the application process, essential skills for a career in industry or the analysis of industry job advertisments