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Virtual postdoc meeting: From PhD to Assistant Professorship: Career Decisions, Tenure Track, and Lessons Learned

02/05/2026 12:30 PM Clock - 1:30 PM Clock
Attendance:
Online event 
Event location:
  • University of Kassel - online
Event Organizer:
  • Graduate Academy
Category:
  • Talk
Target groups:
  • Junior Research Group Leaders
  • Postdoktorand:innen/Postdocs

Language: English.

In this talk, Lara Schilling shares her still early-career path from completing her PhD at the University of Kassel to taking up an Assistant Professorship in Denmark. She reflects on her decisions between Germany and abroad, the application process, and her deliberate choice of a tenure-track position. Drawing on her personal experience, she offers reflections on the opportunities and challenges of an early Assistant Professorship and provides practical advice.

Prerequisites

The virtual postdoc meeting is an informal group of postdocs that meets once a months on the first Thursday from 12:30 to 13:30 pm.
Special guests take part in varying topics.

Interested postdocs are welcome to register to the mailing list via https://lists.its.uni-kassel.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/postdocs (intranet only).
The link to the meeting will be sent via the mailing list.

More information about this event

Event location:

University of Kassel - online

Event Organizer:

Graduate Academy

Contact:

Dr. Isabelle Schulze
Universität Kassel
Graduate Academy
General Manager
0561-804 1968
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Special Guest:

Prof. Dr. Lara Schilling
Technical University of Denmark

Department of Technology, Management and Economics
Operations & Supply Chain Management Section, Management Science Division