Tips and Tricks for your Path to Group Leader/Professor

This expert talk will be a collegial forum to gain and share advice and informal knowledge for sucessful academic career trajectories. Through an input from Verena Kohler and a question-and-answer session, you will be inspired for how to set yourself up for the next steps after your current postdoctoral contract. 

Our expert is a researcher with a background in natural sciences, but there will be plenty of wisdom for postdocs from all disciplines.  The event will be moderated by Johanna Stadlbauer, and you are welcome to send us your questions in advance via postdoc@uni-graz.at.

Verena Kohler is Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Molecular Biology at Umeå University in Sweden. Since October 2023, she has been leading the research group "Implications of ageing and disease on cellular protein quality control". As a new PI, she continually reflects on best practice in leadership and effective team dynamics. Kohler has worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Stockholm and Graz, and previously held an Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). She did her PhD research at the Institute of Molecular Biosciences at the University of Graz. Her research focusses on cellular proteostasis, particularly during ageing, as well as the significance of membrane contact sites.

Register by April 9, noon: Tips and Tricks for your Path to Group Leader/Professor

Location: Universitätsarchiv, Universitätsplatz 3, entry opposite humanities dean's office