Ingenium invites you to the

3rd Young Investigator Appreciation Day!

This event is 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. 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. The event is a networking event 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.