During our HeJu annual meeting 2021 (online) on 28th Jan, we elected our new HeJu steering committee as well as working group speakers for the term 2021-2022. We thank our previous steering committee - Michaela, Isabela (spokespersons) and Kevin (treasurer) - for their excellent work to unite us ...[Read more]
During our HeJu annual meeting 2021 (online) on 28th Jan, we elected our new HeJu steering committee as well as working group speakers for the term 2021-2022. We thank our previous steering committee - Michaela, Isabela (spokespersons) and Kevin (treasurer) - for their excellent work to unite us ...[Read more]
During our HeJu annual meeting 2021 (online) on 28th Jan, we elected our new HeJu steering committee as well as working group speakers for the term 2021-2022. We thank our previous steering committee - Michaela, Isabela (spokespersons) and Kevin (treasurer) - for their excellent work to unite us ...[Read more]
Are you curious about HeJu and Helmholtz Horizons? After our newest survey (report is here: https://www.helmholtz.de/fileadmin/user_upload/06_jobs_talente/Helmholtz-Juniors/Survey_Report2019_update.pdf ), we realized our PhDs can relate themselves quite good to Helmholtz and thus we also ...[Read more]
Anxiety? Depression? Feeling upset/worried/tense? Maybe you have experienced (one of) these during your PhD, but have you ever thought these are all warning signs for your mental health? Or in another words, why should we care and how? In our newest survey (report is here: ...[Read more]
What is power abuse in the academic system? Is it a something new, or why it is gaining more and more attention? In our newest survey (report is here: https://www.helmholtz.de/fileadmin/user_upload/06_jobs_talente/Helmholtz-Juniors/Survey_Report2019_update.pdf ), we have (as always) put these ...[Read more]
Weather you are currently thinking of doing a PhD or you are already a doctoral researcher (DR), it might always quite interesting to know how is it like to be a doctoral researcher at the largest scientific organization in Germany. More specifically, how are DRs networked? How diverse are DRs? or ...[Read more]
Being a doctoral researcher (DR) can sometimes lead us to a "solitary" journey. For instance, even within the same discipline, the researches we do still need certain extent of novelty so that many of us might never find some one doing exactly the same thing and have an in-depth chat about our ...[Read more]
How to be happy? „If only we’d stop trying to be happy we’d have a pretty good time.“ Edith Wharton This topic is quite a controversial and also philosophical one. Let´s be honest here: we can´t guide you to fundamental happiness. There´s no neat trick that works for everyone. If ...[Read more]
We often talk about heart and lung health, etc. but we seldom talk about brain health which is undeniably central to all our health. The brain is like any other organ. During our Mental Health Awareness month we actually talk a lot about stress. Stress is often portrayed as having only relatively ...[Read more]
