To progress in their scientific career, a postdoc needs to develop a distinct profile as a researcher. One way to distinguish yourself from the competition in your field is by gaining a reputation for being a consistently original thinker. Although we all are able to have new ideas, the challenge often is to generate them when needed. To advance your abilities to deliberately generate novel approaches, particularly for developing innovative research projects, this seminar introduces principles and tactics based on the study of creative thinking in science and related domains.

Important subjects of this concise course will thus be:

• How to identify topics with funding potential
• Tactics for adopting new perspectives on research problems
• Tactics for developing novel solutions to research problems

With this seminar, you will acquire a first set of thinking tools that allow you to think in an imaginative fashion at will and thus, for example, to respond to a wide(r) range of funding calls.

This event is part of the KHYS Postdoc Days 2023 and is sponsored by the Helmholtz Association. It is also part of this year's Postdoc Appreciation Week Germany.