Young Investigator Appreciation Day 2025 – Scientific independence: How to achieve it and what to consider – Tuesday, 24th of June
Ingenium invites you to the
3rd Young Investigator Appreciation Day!
This event is part of the Postdoc Career Weeks 2025 and aims to:
- honour your excellent work,
- welcome the Athene Young Investigators (AYI), appointed to the AYI Programme of TU Darmstadt in 2025,
- offer you a platform to establish networks with other young investigators and postdocs of different research disciplines of TU Darmstadt, Goethe University Frankfurt and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and,
- discuss together with Prof. Dr. Jens Braun, full professor at the Department of Physics and DFG liaison officer at TU Darmstadt, Dr. Yan-Jie Schnellbach, BMBF Junior Research Group Leader, Department of Physics, TU Darmstadt, and the RMU research group leaders Dr. Pelin Tozman (AYI, ERC Starting Grant, TU Darmstadt), Dr. Anna Wanka (Emmy Noether Group Leader, GU Frankfurt) and Dr. Vanessa Zeller (AYI, research group leader, TU Darmstadt) about their experiences on their way of becoming scientifically independent. Questions such as “What are the main key elements that characterize scientific independence? And what can you do to obtain it and demonstrate it?” will be answered.
- The session is moderated by Prof Dr Katharina Schneider and Prof Dr Kathrin Reinke.
- You are very welcome to pose questions and discuss with our guests.
Who can participate?
The event is open for all established researchers (R3), postdoctoral researchers (R2) and doctoral candidates (R1) of all research disciplines of the Rhine-Main Universities being interested in an academic career with a moderated discussion and participants are very welcome to ask questions.
When will the event take place?
Tuesday, 24th of June, 2025 at 3:00 pm (registration)
Where will the event take place?
Friedrich-Ludwig-Weidig-Saal and Lobby (S3|20 Room 18, Rundeturmstraße 10, 64283 Darmstadt)
How can I register?
Please fill in the registration form.
What is the event language?
The event will be held in English.
Preliminary Programme: 3rd Young Investigator Appreciation Day 2025 – Tuesday, 24th of June
| 3:00 pm |
Registration |
|---|---|
| 3:30 pm |
Welcome and Appointment Ceremony: Athene Young Investigator 2025 Dr Bettina Wagner, Managing Director of Ingenium – Young Researchers at TU Darmstadt Prof Dr Franziska Lang, Vice President for Academic Careers at TU Darmstadt Dr.-Ing. Manisha Luthra Agnihotri Computer Science Dr.-Ing. Philipp Rosendahl Civil and Environmental Engineering Dr.-Ing. Tao Li Mechanical Engineering Athene Young Investigators 2025 |
| 4:00 pm |
Fishbowl Scientific independence: How to achieve it and what to consider Prof Dr Jens Braun – Department of Physics and DFG liaison officer, TU Darmstadt Dr Yan-Jie Schnellbach – BMBF Junior Research Group Leader, Department of Physics, TU Darmstadt Dr Pelin Tozman – AYI and ERC Starting Grant, Department of Materials and Earth Sciences, TU Darmstadt Dr Anna Wanka – Emmy Noether Group Leader and member of Johanna Quandt Young Academy@Goethe, Department of Educational Sciences, GU Frankfurt Dr Vanessa Zeller – AYI, Research Group Leader, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, TU Darmstadt |
| Followed by |
Reception |
| Join in at 7:30 pm | Party@Schlosskeller For the Party@Schlosskeller we kindly ask you to register here as well. The registration link for the 3rd Young Investigator Appreciation Day 2025 you find above. |
