Universität Leipzig: Career development

Careers in Science

After a successful dissertation, a career in science can be attractive: it offers the opportunity to devote yourself intensively to personal research interests, to network and to develop your own ideas.

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The postdoc phase

The postdoc phase is the key stage of your academic career on the way to a professorship or permanent academic position. What characterises this phase and what requirements do you face as a postdoc?

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Leipzig Tenure-Track Programme

The Leipzig Tenure-Track Programme offers an early and plannable perspective for a lifetime professorship.

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Habilitation

In many disciplines, the habilitation is still the decisive path to a professorship.

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Junior Professorship

This enables you to research and teach without being subject to directives and to gain qualifications in the process.

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Junior Research Groups

In junior research groups, postdocs pursue a research project in their own working group.

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Appointment procedure

Knowing how a university approaches an appointment can help you plan your next career steps.

Careers outside of academia

Researchers do not always opt for a permanent academic career. There are also structural reasons for considering alternative career paths after the doctorate.

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Graduate Academy Leipzig

The Graduate Academy Leipzig prepares you for a career both in and outside academia.

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Training database

Some topics and skills from our training courses are also important for fields of work outside of academia.

Career Service

The Career Service offers information and advice on applications and career entry - also for postdocs.

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SMILE: The start-up initiative

The Self-Management Initiative Leipzig (SMILE) provides advice and support for start-ups.

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