Ca­reer Spot­lights

What happens after you’ve completed your PhD? What opportunities are open to you, and how can you actively shape your professional future? Whether in academia, business or other professional fields – developing your own career brings with it many questions and challenges.

Through our ‘Career Spotlights’ series, we aim to support you in finding your own path and making informed decisions about your next career steps. We explore topics that are important for your professional development, offer practical tips and insights into different career paths, and put you in touch with people who are willing to share their experiences with you. Of course, the Career Spotlights also provide an opportunity for you to network with other doctoral candidates and postdocs.

 

By the way: Do you know the JobTalk event series? This online format organised by the universities in the NRW Staff Development Network presents selected areas of work outside the university. Participation can be credited in the certificate programme ‘Qualification for Professional Fields in Business and Society’.

Vis­ib­il­ity in Aca­demia: Linked­In, Re­searchG­ate & Co.

LinkedIn, ResearchGate & Co. – just how important is it to have a presence on social media? What opportunities do social networks offer for raising your profile, showcasing your research and making professional contacts? And how can you establish an authentic online presence without having to post constantly or market yourself? We’ll be addressing these and other questions at the next Career Spotlight.

Following a brief presentation by Prof. Dr Sven Lindberg, there will, as always, be plenty of time for your questions.

Details:

Date25 November 2026, 13:00–14:30
Venueonline
Language of the event

German

If there is sufficient demand, the event may also be held in English.

Re­gis­tra­tion Ca­reer Spoot­light

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Past Ca­reer Spot­lights

  • June 2026: Successful Industry Applications (with Hilke Heise, People Chief Officer Bertelsmann Investment)
  • June 2025: Working with VolkswagenStiftung (with Dr Selahattin Danisman)
  • May 2025: Professor at a University of Applied Sciences (with Christiane Lübke, Professor for Environment & Society at TH OWL)
  • November 2024: Akademischer (Ober)Rat (with Dr.-Ing. Steffen Jesinghausen, Akademischer Oberrat, Fachgruppe Partikelverfahrenstechnik)
  • July 2024: From PhD to Academic Management - A career path for me? (with Dr.in Anda-Lisa Harmening, Manager of the Graduate Center of the Faculty of Arts and Humanites; Laura Maring, Consultant for Diversity; and Dr. Alexandra Wiebke, Head of the Academic Career Development Office)
  • May 2024: Befristungen in der Promotions- und Postdoc-Phase und das Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz (mit Dunja Denecke & Simone Hansmeier, SG. 4.2)
  • January 2024: Junior Research Group Leader (with Dr Zahra Raissi, Junior Research Group Leader in the Department of Computer Science)
  • February 2023: Research Stays Abroad and International Contacts (with Prof. Miriam Strube, Department of English and American Studies, and Prof. Jan Sperling, Department of Physics)
  • November 2022: Junior Professorship (with Junior Prof. Sebastian Peitz, Department of Computer Science)

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