COAST CELEBRATES.

Wednesday 12 Nov 2025, 10:00 → 17:00 Europe/Berlin

CFEL (Campus Bahrenfeld, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22607 Hamburg)

COAST CELEBRATES.

Career Development for Early Career Researchers – Best Practices and New Horizons

Location: CFEL, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22607 Hamburg (Campus Bahrenfeld) https://campus.desy.de/en/ 

Since 2020, DESY´s Career Center for postdocs COAST has been empowering postdocs to make informed career decision through highly professional career counseling, skills training, and networking opportunities – within and beyond academia.

During this event we will reflect on achievements, share best practices, and explore the evolving role of career centers in supporting early career researchers and the talent management strategy of their institution. We will ask bold questions and dare to look into the future!

This event is for you if you…

• …are interested in (the future of) career support for postdocs and early career researchers – as a career center professional or manager, counselor or coach, researcher or in a leading position in science.
• …want to connect with peers and professionals across institutions and exchange new ideas about career development and orientation for early career researchers.
• …are keen on learning from each other in interactive exchange formats.
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***Please note that during this event pictures will be taken for publication (print and internet). If you do not want to be photographed, please indicate this during registration onsite.***

Agenda (subject to change)

10:00 Registration & COAST Timeline Gallery

10:30 Welcome & Interactive Opening 

Greetings by Prof. Dr. Beate Heinemann, Chairperson of the DESY Board of Directors

Presentation 5 years COAST: Milestones of Successful Career Development Services

11:10 Deep Dive Workshop Sessions

13:00 Lunch / COAST Timeline Gallery Walk 

14:00 Keynote by Serviola Beqiraj Academic Intelligence: When Artificial Intelligence Shapes Academic Futures & Fishbowl Panel Discussion         

15:30 Wrap Up & Farewell

16:00 Informal Get Together

Moderation: Elena Lichtenthaler and Dr. Martin Lichtenthaler

Graphic Recording: Anna Lena Schiller

Deep Dive Sessions (see update: https://coast.desy.de/coastcelebrates/deep_dive_workshops/index_eng.html)

Keynote:  Academic Intelligence: When Artificial Intelligence Shapes Academic Futures - Serviola Beqiraj

Serviola Beqiraj talks about the future of academic careers in the age of digital transformation – with a particular focus on artificial intelligence, diversity, and structural change.

How do we navigate a world where algorithms increasingly influence our academic paths? This keynote invites you to explore the complex intersection of AI and career development, questioning assumptions, examining contradictions and reflecting on what it means to build an authentic academic future.  How much can we trust algorithms? Where does hidden bias influence the choices we see? And what role should human judgment play in a world where algorithms suggest opportunities, yet people must still define their meaning?

Fishbowl Discussion

• Serviola Beqiraj, Speaker and AI-Expert 
• Freya Blekman, Leading Scientist and Principal Investigator at DESY, Professor for Experimental Physics at the University of Hamburg
• Alberto Martini, PhD, former research fellow and postdoc at DESY, Senior Data Scientist at Blue Yonder
• Friederike Eickhoff, Teamlead COAST Career Center at DESY
• N.N.

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10:00 → 10:30 Registration & COAST Timeline Gallery

10:30 → 11:10 Welcome: Prof. Dr. Beate Heinemann, COAST Team and moderators

Speakers: Prof. Beate Heinemann (DESY Directorate), Mrs Elena Lichtenthaler (Moderator), Mrs Friederike Eickhoff (COAST Teamleader), Dr Martin R. Lichtenthaler (Moderator)

11:10 → 13:00 Deep Dive Session

• COAST Career Center: Best Practice 2020-2025 – COAST Team
• AI and Career Development in Science and Beyond – Barbara Janssens, PhD
• Beyond Evaluation-Defining and Measuring Impact in Career Development – Dr. Anne Schreiter
• Creative Methods in Career Orientation – Liz Moulin
• Facilitating Future Skills in Career Development for Postdocs – Dr. Lima Sayed
• The Art of Persuasion-Stop Explaining, Start Convincing! – Anna Momber

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch / COAST Timeline Gallery Walk

14:00 → 15:30 Keynote “Academic Intelligence: Opportunities and Limitations of AI in Career Development” & Fishbowl

Speaker: Serviola Beqiraj
“I talk about the future of academic careers in the age of digital transformation – with a particular focus on artificial intelligence, diversity, and structural change. As a certified AI consultant with strong research expertise and many years of experience in the strategic development of academic career paths, I combine practical relevance with scientific depth.”

Fishbowl Discussion

Serviola Beqiraj, Speaker and AI-Expert
Freya Blekman, Leading Scientist and Principal Investigator at DESY, Professor for Experimental Physics at the University of Hamburg
Alberto Martini, PhD, former research fellow and postdoc at DESY, Senior Data Scientist at Blue Yonder
Friederike Eickhoff, Teamlead COAST Career Center at DESY,
N.N.

Speaker: Mrs Serviola Beqiraj

15:30 → 16:00 Wrap Up & Farewell

16:00 → 17:00 “Ausklang” and informal Get Together