Postdocs

The University of Bremen supports the career development of early-career researchers in the postdoc phase. BYRD offers its own range of information, advice and workshops on career orientation, personal development, and networking. In addition, you will find the university-wide support offers for the postdoc phase on our homepage.

News for Postdocs

Please register here to receive updated information on our program and events.

 

Our goals are:

  • To assist you in clarifying your career goals either inside or outside the University and provide support in implementing accordant measures.
  • To provide you with interdisciplinary skills that will enable you to perform excellent teaching and research as well as to contribute your research findings to society.
  • To give you an overview of funding opportunities.
  • To make postdocs of the University of Bremen more visible as a distinctive peer group and to network with one another.

 

Please see our page for Early Career Researchers to find general information regarding the options and demands for postdoctoral research.

Our Offerings for Postdocs

Workshops

To support postdocs as well as advanced academics on their way to a professorship or a career in business or civilian society, BYRD organizes a workshop program with a focus on the topics

  • academic career development
  • careers beyond academia
  • networking
  • personal development
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Consultation

We will be happy to advise you in a personal meeting on questions of orientation after completing your doctorate, on funding and support offers by the University of Bremen and on career paths within and outside the academia.

Feel free to arrange an appointment with Dr. Imke Girßmann:
Phone: 0421-218-60329
E-Mail: imke.girssmannprotect me ?!vw.uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de

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Networking

Do you work as a postdoctoral researcher at Bremen University and would like to connect to other researchers in a similar position? Do you have ideas for collective or interdisciplinary projects? We support Postdoc Network Groups und offer funding for your activities. Detailed information

 

 

 

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Individual Coaching

Our coaching pool provides the opportunity to profit from professional consultation for all postdocs who are in their qualification phase and have a temporary contract at the University of Bremen. We cooperate with professionally trained coaches in different areas.

Individual Coaching for Postdoctoral Researchers

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Support Offers for Postdocs at Bremen University

BYRD, the central point of contact for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers, bundles the offers of the University of Bremen for personal advancement and further development. Here you will find them according to the areas of competence that the University of Bremen has defined as core elements of career development in the postdoc phase. (Please note: Some of them are only available in German.)

  • The University of Bremen, together with the other universities in Bremen and Bremerhaven and the Bremer Aufbau-Bank, pool their activities in the area of “Start-ups from universities” in the BRIDGE network.
  • Information on the topic of knowledge and technology transfer at the University of Bremen
  • The Office for University Didactics of the University of Bremen offers a comprehensive training program for its teaching faculty.
  • “Research-based learning” at the University of Bremen.
  • Information on quality assurance in teaching and learning

Bremen Early Career Researcher Development

BYRD is the support center for early-career researchers at the University of Bremen. We are the central contact point for doctoral candidates, postdocs as well as advanced researchers for further training, networking, information and consulting.

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