How to think innovatively and benefit from it

Online

Talk 

11.00 - 12.30 CEST

Discover why innovation is crucial for progress, competitiveness, and solving complex problems and understand its role in creating new opportunities and in shaping a sustainable future. Our speaker possesses a profound and longstanding experience of translating research findings into practice, and he is a multiple founder himself. 
You will find out about the motivation of researchers for bringing their results into practice and what benefits are opened up. The HIGHEST company builder at TU Darmstadt is available for all RMU researchers. It helps them to bring findings with disruptive innovation potential into practice. 

There will be time for questions after the talk.  

Language: English

Speaker: Harald Holzer – Head of Research Transfer & Managing Director of HIGHEST Innovation & Start-up Centre TU Darmstadt

Alternative career paths – Industry

Online

Testimonial

13.00 – 14.30 CEST

What are alternative career paths for postdocs outside academia? And how do you get there? Our speakers successfully transitioned from postdoc positions at TU Darmstadt to innovative fields in industry. They will share their experiences with you, talk about their individual career development, provide insights into their application processes, the transition from university research to an industrial setting, their work contents, as well as current topics and innovations in their fields. There will be plenty of time for questions and discussions about career strategies with a doctorate.

Language: English

Guests: 

• Dr. Alexander Großmann – Project Leader Manufacturing Engineering, Airbus
• Dr. Yvonne Späck-Leigsnering – Team Lead EMC Simulation, Robert Bosch GmbH

Alternative career paths – Science management

Online

Testimonial

15.00 – 16.30 CEST

What are alternative career paths for postdocs outside academia? And how do you get there? Our speakers successfully transitioned from postdoc positions to science management. They will share their experiences with you, talk about their individual career development, provide insights into their application processes, their work contents, as well as current topics and innovations in their fields. There will be plenty of time for questions and discussions about career strategies with a doctorate.

Language: English

Guests: 

• Dr. Jonathan Heubes – Hessisches Ministerium für Landwirtschaft und Umwelt, Weinbau, Forsten, Jagd und Heimat
• Dr. Mareike Eder-Egnolff – Department of Law and Economics, TU Darmstadt