Online seminar  /  07. November 2025, 09:00-17:00 h

PhD Done! What’s Next? Academic Career Planning and Development

What's it About?

The aim of the seminar is, on the one hand, to provide you with a framework for reflecting on your own professional motives. On the other hand, the seminar offers knowledge, background and orientation for planning and developing the next steps towards a long-term academic career in Germany. 

Questions will be discussed such as: 

  • What long-term career options does the academic job market offer for research and what are the actual chances here?
  • What requirements and criteria should be met for this career path?
  • When are which tasks particularly important? What has the highest priority?
  • How important is the habilitation? What time frame is appropriate? 

 

What's the Point?

The seminar will inform you about the central requirements (also beyond publications and third-party funding) and milestones for an academic career. Furthermore, it will provide you with concrete tips and advice on both the weighting of these requirements and on strategic considerations during the postdoc phase on the path to a professorship. Building on this, the seminar offers you the opportunity to take stock and reflect on your own academic profile and ideally derive the next important steps from this.