CIBSS Career & Support

For Everyone at CIBSS

The targeted support of researchers through tailored offerings, especially in the early stages of their careers, is a central and essential activity of CIBSS. In addition to excellent scientific supervision and guidance, CIBSS offers a comprehensive career and support programme that enables early career researchers to strategically plan and shape their careers while acquiring the necessary qualifications for their next steps and individual goals.

Contact person for career and support related inquiries
Early Career Coordinator Dr. Dengfeng Huang at dengfeng.huang(at)cibss-uni-freiburg.de.

 

Grouppicture of the CIMT Academy of Translational Cancer Immunology summer school in Palmela Portulat, Portugal, September 2024, that Dr. Nadine Wössner attended with a CIBSS travel grant. Foto: Dr. Nadine Wössner

CIBSS Career and Support Programme

Offerings, Events, Trainings, and funding opportunities

>>> upcoming events here.

Career development, strategic planning
CIBSS offers workshops on individual career development and strategic planning, supporting early career researchers in designing and achieving further goals in their career paths.

Scientific independence and interdisciplinary exchange
CIBSS offers travel subsidies for attendance at (international) scientific conferences, workshops, and individual further training. Regularly held Work-in-Progress (WiP) seminars provide opportunities for project presentations and independent, interdisciplinary feedback from the scientific CIBSS community.

Networking and community building
CIBSS organises regular networking events such as Career Days and annual retreats for early career researchers.

Lab support
Support is provided during pregnancy and early parental leave.

Information and skills for the acquisition of funding
Regular multi-part workshops are held on the conception and writing of funding applications, covering everything from an overview of funding opportunities and idea development to persuasive presentation and conception, as well as the creation of timelines and financial plans.

Scientific supervision, leadership, and management
CIBSS organises workshops and events covering topics related to scientific supervision, leadership and management, including the fundamentals of scientific mentoring, leadership roles and responsibilities, motivation and productivity, communication, and conflict management.

Recognition and visibility
Every two years, CIBSS awards the InteGREATor Award, worth up to 3000 euros, for outstanding publications (first, last, or corresponding authorship of a peer-reviewed paper) to PhD students and postdocs working on CIBSS related topics.
         InteGREATor Award 2024 | InteGREATor Award 2022 | InteGREATor Award 2020

Coaching
CIBSS early career members have access to coaching opportunities at the University of Freiburg. A compilation of offers for researchers at all career stages is available here.

 

Central offerings at the University of Freiburg

The central points of contact for all career and support related offerings at the University of Freiburg are the Freiburg Research Services and the Centre for Advanced Researcher Development. CIBSS members from the Medical Center of the University of Freiburg and the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics have access to their institution’s support services.

Skills development and continuing education

Consulting and support

 

Mentoring, coaching, and personal counselling

  • Central mentoring programme AdvanceMent: offers advice and support for specific challenges in career development through three program lines: @academia: for those pursuing an academic or non-academic career; @newpathways: aimed at careers outside the academic world; @flexAbility: specifically for international researchers
  • Support in personal conflict and crisis situations: external counselling service for help with crises, conflicts, and addiction issues (for employees), psychological counselling service of the Freiburg Student Union for students, contact point for cases of discrimination, sexual harassment, and stalking

Mentoring programmes specifically for women

  • Coaching Women for Research and Academia (CORA): offers coaching and workshops for the professional support of strategic career planning
  • Kite Mentoring: a mentoring and career development programme for women in the natural and life sciences during their doctoral and postdoctoral phases at the University of Freiburg
  • EIRA-Mentoring: offered by the Faculty of Medicine, this programme is aimed at female physicians and scientists in the medical field during their postdoctoral phase, with a clear goal of habilitation – for female physicians from the third year of training, and female scientists after their doctorate (at least one publication should be present)
  • MuT – Mentoring and Training: a program for the professional support and promotion of highly qualified early career female researchers in Baden-Württemberg, particularly for women aspiring to a professorship. The programme is aimed at doctoral candidates, postdoctoral researchers, habilitands, junior professors, and private lecturers