Postdoctoral researchers and Junior Faculty
As a postdoctoral researcher, research group leader, or junior professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen, you can benefit from a broad range of support services. The UDE actively strives to make academic careers easier to plan and offers support to researchers at all career levels.
In the Research Academy Ruhr (RAR), the three universities Duisburg-Essen, Bochum and Dortmund furthermore offer joint programs for postdoctoral researchers and the Junior Faculty*. This enables you to optimally use the qualification phase after your doctorate to prepare for a career in research, business, or society.
On this page you will find an overview of qualification offers, information on funding opportunities and further support offers.
Counselling
Personal consultation at GC Plus
If you have further questions or are looking for the right contact person, please get in touch with us.
Career counselling for women
With our individual and personal career counselling, we would like to accompany you on your journey towards becoming a professor, planning a career as research manager or a career beyond academia.
Science Support Centre (SSC)
The SSC supports UDE's researchers in the strategic planning and implementation of research activities, among them advice on applications for third-party funding.
Research Funding
Funding programmes for Postdocs
Overview of funding programmes for postdoctoral researchers (UDE internal funding, foundations, ministries, associations etc.)
UDE programme for the promotion of excellent early career researchers
This UDE-internal funding programme aims at leading outstanding early career researchers to an own third-party funding proposal.
NRW Rückkehrprogramm 2020
Siedeln Sie Ihre Nachwuchsgruppe an der Universität Duisburg-Essen an – im Rahmen des Programms zur Förderung der Rückkehr des hoch qualifizierten Forschungsnachwuchses aus dem Ausland des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen (sog. NRW-Rückkehrprogramm).
Further services at UDE
The "WISNA" programme
The “Tenure-Track-Programm zur Förderung des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses (WISNA)” [Tenure Track Programme for Promoting Early Career Researchers] is intended to help make career paths in academia more predictable and transparent.
Tenure-Track-Academy
TT Academy offers – in addition to support from faculties, central institutions and central administration – a needs-oriented package of measures specially tailored to TT professors based on a comprehensive personnel development concept.
Equality of opportunity and family
Information on UDE's measures and offers for a family- and gender-friendly university
Further education and training at UDE
The further education and training program at the UDE offers e.g. courses on leadership management and safety at the workplace.
UDE Personnel development
Personnel development at UDE means promoting the individual professional and personal competence of employees and at the same time achieving the goals of the university.
Qualification and Networking
Postdoc Workshops
Within Research Academy Ruhr, we offer you a jointly developed, cross-university workshop programme on topics such as: career in academia and beyond, management and leadership skills, networking, or applying for third-party funding.
CoachingPLUS
Career goal professorship: Within Research Academy Ruhr, we offer you a jointly developed, cross-university seminar programme every semester in the areas of strategic research promotion, appointment procedures, and leading your own working group.
mentoring³
Promoting women in academia: mentoring³ is an academic career development programme for female early career researchers of the UA Ruhr universities. Female doctoral and postdoctoral researchers who are aiming for a career in academia can participate in the programme in annual cycles.
Find further qualification and networking offers for postdoctoral researchers and Junior Faculty members within the University Alliance Ruhr at www.research-academy-ruhr.de.
* Junior Faculty includes all experienced postdoctoral researchers who are on their way to professorship in one of the following qualification phases: Habilitation candidates, research group leaders, junior professors, tenure track professors.