KHYS Postdoc Days 2024
We are happy to announce the KHYS Postdoc Days 2024, which will take place from Monday, September 16 until Friday, September 20, 2024.
The ▶ KHYS Postdoc Office has organized several events in cooperation with other service units and partners at KIT in order to support you in every stage of your postdoc phase with vital information and advice. To give you detailed practical insights, several guests, speakers and experts have been invited to share their experiences with you and answer your questions.
▶ KHYS Postdoc Days Program
Moreover, the KHYS Postdoc Days are part of this year's ▶ Postdoc Appreciation Week Germany with lectures, talks, further education and networking events offered by universities and research institutions from all over Germany. ▶ Program Postdoc Appreciation Week Germany
All online events within the KHYS Postdoc Days are also open for young researchers outside KIT, who are participating in the Postdoc Appreciation Week Germany. Likewise, young researchers from KIT will have access to further events offered by several research institutions and universities in Germany.
We are looking forward to welcome you at the KHYS Postdoc Days 2024!
Monday, September 16
online (zoom)
Format: Online (zoom)
Target group: Postdocs, Postdoc Aspirants, International Postdocs
Max. participants: 60
Seminar Room Forum A and B, Audimax (Bld. 30.95),
Kaiserstraße 12
We will give you plenty of information on how to best profit from the postdoc phase – including information on networking and internationalization programs as well as services offered at the KHYS Postdoc Office and other service units at KIT. In addition, there will be two brief testimonials by more advanced early career researchers. They will share their experiences with you concerning their own postdoc phase and will be happy to answer your questions.
This event is open to postdocs at KIT who are KHYS members. It will be most interesting in particular for those who have recently started their postdoc phase at KIT.
Format: In-person
Target group: New Postdocs of KIT, members of KHYS
Max. Participants: 40
Tuesday, September 17
online (zoom)
Format: Online
Target group: Postdocs, Postdoc Aspirants, International Postdocs
Max. participants: 80
Room 145/146, Allgemeines Verfügungsgebäude (AVG) (Bld. 50.41),
Adenauerring 20a
tba
Panelists:
- tba
Format: In-person
Target Group: Early career researchers
Max. participants: 90
Wednesday, September 18
online (zoom)
This event is open to all postdocs and those interested in becoming a postdoc.
Format: Online
Target group: Postdocs, Postdoc Aspirants, International Postdocs
Max. participants: 60
Format: tba
Target group: Postdocs, Postdoc Aspirants, International Postdocs
Max. participants: 60
Thursday, September 19
online (zoom)
Format: online
Target group: Early career researchers
Max. participants: tba
Campus South, Adolf-Würth-Building (11.30), Foyer
Are you a postdoc looking for information regarding attractive career options outside academia? Are you aware of what future employers expect from you and how to apply in the best possible way? Are you wondering how to make the best of your postdoc phase to qualify for future occupations?
A representative of the Human Resources Department of a company as well as a postdoc who has left academia to pursue a career there will share practical tips, insights and experiences on how to successfully transition to said company. They will also answer your questions in a Q&A session. During the last bit of the event, you will get the possibility to talk, network and exchange experiences over coffee and cake.
Format: In-person
Target group: Early career researchers
Max. participants: 40
The KHYS Postdoc Days 2024 are sponsored by the Helmholtz Association
and are part of the Postdoc Appreciation Week Germany 2024.