My International Career – Dealing with Pitfalls, Learning from Others

International mobility is an essential component for successful academic careers, but it also places considerable demands on individuals and their private lives. In this workshop, you will meet young researchers who have embarked on an international career path and who have successfully mastered the transition from different foreign
countries to Germany, more precisely to one of the three universities of the RMU Alliance. They will tell you about their individual recipes for success, which could be important for your own career, as well as possible hurdles that you may not have thought of yet. Furthermore, you will find out more about the processes involved and learn about the range of support opportunities offered by the universities and other networks and support structures. After the interviews, you will have the opportunity to ask questions to the panelists as well as to the university representatives.
Target audience: Postdocs planning an academic career at a German university

• Dr. Frauke Choi, Head of HR Dept. Career Development, JGU Mainz
• Dr. Bettina Maria Heiss, Grants Consultant for National Research Funding, Research Support, Goethe University Frankfurt
• Dr. Bettina Wagner, Managing Director Ingenium, TU Darmstadt

Our panelists are young Research Group Leaders (Emmy Noether fellows, ERC Starting Grant holders, or young professors) at one of the universities of the strategic alliance of the “Rhine-Main-Universities’ (RMU). They themselves have spent part of their careers abroad and have recently successfully established their research groups in Germany.