Get insights into different career paths and benefit from personal experiencs of our Alumni!
There are plenty of career options for (plant) scientists and finding your personal career objectives is very challenging for most early career researchers. Therefore, we are very happy that Alumni of our programs are willing to share insights about their career with current PhD students and postdocs from our programs as part of our new career series.
The Alumni career series are a great opportunity to explore different careers, get a hint of what you can grow into and benefit from personal career experiences of our Alumni!
The 'Branch out! Career Day 2022' took place on December 2, 2022 at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research.
The key note talk of Sarah O ́Connor was followed by short talks and discussions with the speakers of the different panels. Following the main program in the lecture hall, which was broadcast via zoom, in-person attendees were able to network and meet the speakers in "Get Connected" Sessions. The event ended with a joint dinner.
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ACADEMIC CAREER PANEL
INDUSTRY CAREER PANEL
OTHER CAREER PATHS PANEL
The 2022 'Branch out! Career Day' 2022 was organized by a group of Postdocs from the MPIPZ and CEPLAS. Members of the organizing committee were Jan Buchmann, Martina Cerise, Ranju Chutia, Vítor Falavigna, Anchilie Mangilet, Yohanna Miotto, Nicholas Russell, Megan Sierz and Jia Yu. The organization was supported at the coordinator level by Francesca Stomeo (MPIPZ Scientific Coordinator), Stephan Wagner (Coordinator MPIPZ Graduate School) and Juliane Schmid (Coordinator CEPLAS Postdoc Program).
The 'Branch out! Career seminar series 2021' took place from late August 2021 to mid-September 2021 on three Friday afternoons (online via Zoom).
August 27: Careers in Industry - R&D and consultancy
September 10: Careers in Academia:
September 17: Careers in the Public sector - Research, education and data management & Technology Transfer
The 2021 seminar series was organized by a team of coordinators, namely Petra Fackendahl (coordinator IRTG iGRAD-PLANT), Elisa Garcia (postdoc coordinator MPIPZ), Stephan Wagner (coordinator MPIPZ Graduate School), Nadine Rademacher (coordinator CEPLAS Graduate School) and Juliane Schmid (coordinator CEPLAS Postdoc Program).
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