Events and Workshops
Let's meet over lunch
We would like to invite you to meet women studying and conducting research in your department.
If you would like to take part,
- Please register by May 15 on our website: https://www.apps.tf.fau.de/anmeldung/lets-meet/
- Please provide your status group and your department when you register.
- We will place you into a group of between three and four people
- and send you contact details.
- You arrange to meet – for example for lunch – during week 21 (May 22 to May 26).
- Each group is responsible for agreeing on a date and time to meet.
We hope that you enjoy getting to know each other and have inspiring conversations.
2023/2024 Digital workshop series
Beating Imposter-Syndrom
03 April 2023, 9am to 1pm; online
only for female doctoral canditates at the Faculty of Engineering
Language: English
Registration:
Please send your registration to tf-frauenbeauftragte@fau.de with the following information:
- Name
- Proof of doctorate at the TF by means of a document from DocDaten “Confirmation of doctorate at FAU” or copy of enrolment card
- Field of study
- Status of doctoral thesis (beginning, in the middle, near completion)
Registration deadline: 28 March 2023, maximum of 14 participants
First come, first served! There is a waiting list.
After the workshop, you will…
- Utilize strategies for reframing criticism and the inner-critic
- Have techniques for combating self-doubt
- Create a mission statement that will act as an anchor in time of stress and pressure
- Use tools to help you transform stress and pressure into energy and motivation
Covered Topics:
The Roles Women Play / Making Yourself Pressure-Proof:
- Identification of the roles and narratives people subscribe to
- Alignment of values with professional goals
- Re-writing one’s personal and professional narrative
- Imposter syndrome
Transforming the inner critic
- Identifying what triggers our inner-critic
- Reframing criticism and negative energy
- Techniques to overcome stage fright and performance pressure
Transforming the outer critic
- Techniques for dealing with Q&A’s and criticism
About the Trainer
Francesca Carlin is an American communication trainer and personal coach. For over a decade she has helped professionals improve their public speaking, develop their presence, and apply the practice of mindful communication. She has worked in Russia and the U.S. and is currently working in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
Francesca is a trained actress and studied theater at Boston and Harvard University. Over the years she has found that using acting techniques and exercises helps people to overcome personal barriers and to become more effective communicators. With her background in the performing arts, she has created a unique approach to her workshops and trainings, in which she incorporates and implements the best practices from both the world of communication skills development and theater.
Career Planning
17 / 20 / 24 / 27 April 2023 – Four appointments each from 3 pm to 5 pm
only for female doctoral canditates at the Faculty of Engineering
Language: English
Registration:
You register for all 4 dates. This means that please only register if you can attend all 4 dates.
Please send your registration to tf-frauenbeauftragte@fau.de with the following information:
- Name
- Proof of doctorate at the TF by means of a document from DocDaten “Confirmation of doctorate at FAU” or copy of enrolment card
- Field of study
- Status of doctoral thesis (beginning, in the middle, near completion)
Registration deadline: 03 April 2023, maximum of 12 participants
First come, first served! There is a waiting list.
After this course you …
- have a better understanding of your life and career goals
- have analyzed your skills and competencies
- are aware of career options within and outside academia
- have designed your individual career development plan
Organisational information
This course consists of four webinars (two hours each) that take place over the course of two weeks. Participants should allocate time for self-study in between webinars. Course content and exercises for the self-study part can be accessed via an online course platform.
About the Trainer
Dr. Iris Köhler is a career coach and experienced scientist. She studied agricultural sciences and received her doctorate at the Technical University of Munich in 2013. After a postdoctoral stay at the University of Illinois, she switched to science management and coordinated the graduate school of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig. She’s passionate about supporting young scientists and therefore in 2018, she decided to found her own coaching and training company “The Scientist Coach”. Because of her scientific background, she knows exactly the challenges that young scientists are facing when it comes to career planning. And as a trained career coach and experienced course instructor, she has the right tools to help young scientists tackle those challenges, develop their own career path and discover their competencies!
16.03.2023 Career paths in science - How are they compatible with familiy?
10:00 am Opening
Prof. Dr. Barbara Kappes,
Faculty women’s representative of the TF
10:15 am Prof. Dr. Amelie Hagelauer
“Superpower? How being a mother, professorship and institute director can be combined”
https://mtt.org/profile/amelie-hagelauer/
11:15 am Coffee break
11:45 am Prof. Dr. Heather Hofmeister
“So, you want to have a life AND work in academia? Let’s talk!”
Why do (especially German) academic careers seem to insist on “either-or” tradeoffs among life domains? And what can we do about it? We’ll look at how our inherited academic culture of long hours and exclusive devotion to science developed, how it’s being re-designed, what stands in the way of the processes of change, and what we can do individually and collectively to move our careers in directions that serve our lives instead of our lives existing to serve our careers.
https://www.heather-hofmeister.com/
12:45 pm Lunch break
2:15 pm Panel discussion
“Work, life and family in academia”
Moderation: Prof. Heather Hofmeister
Panel guests:
- Prof. Dr. Amelie Hagelauer (TUM)
- Prof. Dr. Philipp Beckerle (TF, EEI)
- Dr. Silvia Budday (TF, MB)
- Dr. Sarah Linz (Siemens Healthineers)
- Emanuel Sizmann (TF, EEI)
Please note: By participating, you agree that photographs and film footage in which you may be recognizable may potentially be published in various media for purposes of event coverage and general publicity.
15.09.2022 - Networking
10:00 am Opening
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Barbara Kappes, faculty women’s representative of the TF
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Björn Eskofier, Vice Dean Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Engineering
10:15 am Lecture and subsequent discussion in English
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Doris Segets
Bridging the valley of death: from colloids process engineering to scalable electrode manufacturing in electrocatalysis?
11:15 am Coffee Break – Networking
11:45 am interactive lecture in English
Dr. Lisa Horvath
Why you need a network – and how it makes you happy and successful
Having a diversified network is a key factor for success in academia, as various studies show. Due to different barriers to career opportunities, it is even more important to female scientists to actively and continuously engage in networking. However, networking is sometimes considered ambivalent and difficult to manage – especially by women: some feel conflicted about instrumental networking, even while recognizing the importance of being well-connected.
Which (gendered) beliefs, systematic boundaries or structural conditions could hold women back from searching for new ties, maintaining existing ties and increase thereby their social ressources? In this talk, we have an evidence-based and interactive look at this question and analyze where potential points of shifting these beliefs and boundaries are. Furthermore, we discuss strategies and forms of networking to develop our social and professional networks in size, diversity and cohesiveness – for our own – and other women’s – happiness, empowerment and success.
12:45 pm Lunch Break – Networking
2:15 pm Panel discussion in German
Networking – intra-institutional (TF, FAU) and inter-institutional (national, international)
Moderation: Dr. Lisa Horvath
Guests:
- Prof. Dr. Doris Segets
- Prof. Dr. Kerstin Amann
- Prof. Dr. Katharina Breininger
- Dr. Monica Hinrichs-Mayer
- Vanessa Wirth, M. Sc.
Please note: By participating, you agree that photographs and film footage in which you may be recognizable may potentially be published in various media for purposes of event coverage and general publicity.
Impressions WomenInScience@TF

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