Leadership in Science Talk

Thursday 5 Jun 2025, 16:00 → 18:00 Europe/Berlin

HARBOR building (ground floor) (DESY Hamburg campus)

Target group:    Principal Investigators, (Deputy) Group Leaders, all Science Leaders of different institutions at Campus Bahrenfeld

 Leadership in science is now recognized as important, but still little acknowledged. Scientists in a leading role have a lot on their agenda. They know from personal experience what it is like to survive in the academic system which can be both rewarding and highly demanding. One of the challenges is to identify excellent researchers in early stages of their careers. It´s about supporting them adequately and pushing them to excellence including developing their scientific and personal skills. But this comes with a price. Here are some examples:

·        You see red flags when someone´s overwhelmed and at the same time you need this paper.

·        You encourage a postdoc to do excellent work and at the same time you know that the speed and intensity of their work could be potentially health-challenging.

·        You find yourself promoting a brilliant doctoral researcher to go to a conference and at the same time you know they have difficulties finishing their lab work.

·        You find a postdoc at your desk requesting to suggest them for an award and you know that their productivity is not the best.

Does that sound familiar? Come and join us for an inspiring discussion with our guests

Ulrike Lohmann

Vice Rector for doctoral studies and Professor for experimental atmospheric physics at the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science at the ETH Zurich and Nele Matz-Lück

Professor for public international law, Managing Director at the Walther Schücking Institute of International Law at Kiel University and podcast host “Exhausted Science” (“Erschöpfte Wissenschaft”).

The event is moderated by Friederike Eickhoff, Team Lead COAST Career Center.