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11/06/2019 | Pressemitteilung

New postdoctoral program launched

To give an additional boost to the promotion of young researchers at the University of Kassel, the Presidential Board has set up and filled a program for postdoctoral researchers. They are to establish junior research groups at the University of Kassel in the coming years. Four young scientists began their work at the start of the winter semester.

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Over the next two years, the advanced postdocs will each supervise a doctoral student, work on a research question and prepare applications for external funding. At the end of the two years, the groups should have submitted applications for externally funded junior researcher programs, for example under the DFG's Emmy Noether Program or comparable offerings. In addition, the young scientists will gain teaching experience and build their teaching profiles.

"We expect these research tandems not only to provide interesting teaching opportunities for our students and to yield insightful results in areas that complement existing research fields at the university," said Vice President Prof. Dr. Ute Clement, the member of the Presidential Board responsible for promoting young scientists. "If we succeed in attracting third-party-funded junior research groups, this strengthens the prospects and career opportunities for promising scientific talent at our university." In junior research group programs funded by the DFG, the EU, but also, for example, by foundations or other public sponsors, doctoral students or postdocs can focus on coordinated work on specific issues for several years.

The topics of the new Kassel junior research groups are: Disability and Interdependence: assistance dogs; philosophy of situated cognition; optical spectroscopy of active molecules; international organizations; and post-growth: mainstreaming radical ideas? The four leaders and their topics were selected through a competitive bidding process. In addition to this postdoctoral program, which has now started, there are a number of other coordinated research groups for young scientists at the University of Kassel. 

 

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