
Career Development
The Career Development office offers a variety of services to support research staff, primarily PhDs and Postdocs, in all matters related to their career development at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry. We act as a close link between PhDs and Postdocs and the Institute’s management and administration, as well as other external research organizations.
Our services include:
Communication:
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- Primary contact for PhDs and Postdocs
- Promotion of PhD and Postdoc Networks
- Information on PhD and Postdoc activities
- Information on career development activities
- Information on university enrollment
- Internal and external networking
- Conflict management
Events and workshops:
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- Planning and organization of career development activities (e.g. soft skills and method courses, career events, etc.)
- Coordination of PhD and Postdoc activities (e.g. retreats, seminars, get togethers, etc.)
- Coordination of internal scientific seminars (e.g. MPIB Research and Technology Seminar Series)
- Monitoring of course and workshop participation
Project management:
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- Monitoring of Thesis Advisory Committee activities
- Scientific management
- Support onboarding of new PhDs and Postdocs
- MPIB PhD and Postdoc website administration
- MPIB Alumni Network
Additional resources
Planck Academy Learning Portal (LMS)
Direct access to the LMS to search and register for courses
External Online seminars
List with links to a variety of online seminar series
Data science - Resources
Guidelines and links to data science resources