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]
This time the GFZ (German Research Centre for Geosciences) answers our 5 Questions. German Research Centre for Geosciences, by PR department (Send to us by Bernhard) 1) How would you describe your institute? The GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences is the national ...[Read more]
In this new series of the blog, we ask 5 questions to personalities of every Helmholtz centres to learn more about it. 1) How would you describe your institute? The HMGU is centered on environmental health topic. Thus, research at HMGU addresses the question if and how ...[Read more]
Today we host a post from Tatyana Dubich, head of the Communication Team. When I started my PhD project, I saw just one way to go: get a PhD, go ahead as a postdoc with a goal to become professor one day. There was no other life after PhD I could imagine. At that time a good friend of ...[Read more]
Today, we have a post from guest author Prof. Reinhart Claus a physicist, enthusiastic astronomer, and musician. "Electric Displacement and Maxwell's Equations - Why and how? Our modern understanding of all electric phenomena more or less starts with Maxwells equations from 1865 ...[Read more]
Same time of year, different Helmholtz center! At the beginning of the year, in February, the Helmholtz Juniors annual meeting took place in the beautiful Heidelberg, where the old city and the state-of-the-art cancer research facilities of the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) meet! ...[Read more]
Today we host a post by Tatyana Dubich, Speaker of the Helmholtz Juniors Communication Group. Enjoy the reading! Have you ever tried to explain your PhD project to your Grandma? Than you know already delivering complex ideas could be a real hassle! On the 30th of March nine young ...[Read more]
