Career Coaching Days April 2021
The VDSP Career Coaching Days offer training and support for VDSP students at any stage of their PhD - from admission until graduation.
Programme overview
| "How to get started: research proposal and public presentation" Q&A with VDSP student Deniz Mostarac | |
Tue, 27 Apr 2021 11:00 | Drop-in sessions with ChristianeM Losert-VK | |
Tue, 27 Apr 2021 13:00 | "Well-being in times of COVID-19" Drop-in sessions with Desiree Dickerson | |
Tue, 27 Apr 2021 15:00 | "PhD - what next? Research fellowships" An overview by Lukas Theussl | |
Wed, 28 Apr 2021 09:00 | Drop-in sessions with ChristianeM Losert-VK | |
Wed, 28 Apr 2021 10:00 | "Well-being in times of COVID-19" Drop-in sessions with Desiree Dickerson |
The links for the various events will be sent in advance via the VDSP student email list.
Abstracts and biographies
"How to get started: research proposal and public presentation"
Q&A with VDSP student Deniz Mostarac
Tue, 27 Apr 2021
10:00
| Within the first year of PhD studies, the thesis topic has to be approved based on the research proposal of the PhD candidate and its public presentation. In a short introduction VDSP student Deniz Mostarac will share his insights and answer your questions on how to draft the proposal and prepare for the presentation which will also allow VDSP students to apply for a mobility fellowship. |
Deniz Mostarac is a PhD student in the Computational and Soft Matter Physics group of the University of Vienna working on magnetic soft matter and Mobility Fellow of the VDSP. He received his Masters Degree in 2018, working on Partial Wave Analysis for "Central Exclusive Production" hadron collisions as a part of the Stefan Meyer Institute (SMI) and the ALICE collaboration in CERN. He has been awarded a Marshall Plan Scholarship, funding his work at Columbia University and Brookhaven National Labs in New York, USA, on utilising DNA Origami technology for synthesis of polymer-like nanofiber designs.
"PhD - what next? Research fellowships"
An overview by Lukas Theussl
Tue, 27 Apr 2021
15:00
| In this short overview Lukas Theussl will introduce the most relevant funding schemes for PhD students who want to continue their academic career as postdocs. In particular, he will touch upon recent changes in the FWF and European key funding programmes and will be available for your questions. |
After having obtained his doctoral degree at the Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble (France) where he investigated baryon resonances in constituent quark models Dr. Lukas Theussl continued his research at the University of Valencia (Spain) and at Triumf, Vancouver (Canada). He then changed his career to pursue a path in research administration moving from the Niels Bohr Insitute in Copenhagen (Denmark) to the Research Center for Quantum Information of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava (Slovakia) to the Faculty of Physics at the University of Vienna where he currently supports the researchers in project management and controlling.
"CV check"
Drop-in sessions with ChristianeM Losert-VK
Tue, 27 Apr 2021
11:00
Wed, 28 Apr 2021
09:00
| In these drop-in sessions Christiane will give feedback on your academic CVs and/or resumés and discuss questions on career planning. Please send your documents to christiane.losert@univie.ac.at before Fri, 23 Apr. |
Dr ChristianeM Losert-Valiente Kroon, managing director of the VDSP, holds a PhD degree in Physics from UCL, London. In 2010 she joined the Vienna Doctoral Program on Complex Quantum Systems (CoQuS) as the coordinator of the joint training programme in quantum science at the University of Vienna and TU Wien. She has supported the founding and implementation of the Vienna Doctoral School in Physics (VDSP). Christiane Losert has a passion for communicating science and is committed to the professional development of early career researchers.
"Well-being in times of COVID-19"
Drop-in sessions with Desiree Dickerson
Tue, 27 Apr 2021
13:00
Wed, 28 Apr 2021
10:00
| These drop-in sessions are a safe space to share challenges and explore solutions amongst colleagues and with someone who specialises in the mental health and well-being of academics. Within an online meeting space, we will touch on different general themes to start the session (10 mins) and then open the floor to the students so they can bring up questions relating to their work and workload, their supervision interactions and challenges, productivity and procrastination, motivation, perfectionism, doubts, fears and concerns. |
Desiree Dickerson PhD is a clinical psychologist who specialises in the mental health and well-being of the research community. As a former postdoc in the neurosciences, Desiree works globally with universities, lab groups, and academics in the pursuit of a healthier approach to research.
She helps researchers at all stages of career to identify self-critical and self-sabotaging thought processes that underlie perfectionism, imposter syndrome, worry, low motivation, and uncertainty and begin to reframe them. She also helps them to identify maladaptive coping strategies (e.g. avoidance and procrastination) that tend to impede their success, and explore more effective (and healthier) short and long-term strategies.
You can find more about her on her website www.desireedickerson.com/institutions