Events and Workshops

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”

 

Prof. Amelie Hagelauer received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in mechatronics and the Dr.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany, in 2007 and 2013, respectively. In November 2007, she joined the FAU Institute for Electronics Engineering, where she researched on BAW resonators and filters toward her Ph.D. degree. Since 2013, she has been focusing on SAW/BAW and RF MEMS components, as well as on microwave integrated circuits for frontends. From 2016 to 2019, she had been leading a Research Group on electronic circuits and from August 2019 to September 2021 she was Full Professor at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. In September 2021, she has joined the Technical University Munich as Full Professor and became the Co-Director of the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Microsystems and Solid State Technologies EMFT. She has been engaged in research and development of microwave theory and technology, electronic circuits and systems, and communication and sensing systems. In these fields, she has authored or coauthored more than 140 peer-reviewed publications. She acted as a Guest Editor for a special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques on the topic RF Frontends for Mobile Radio and is now an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques.

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.

Heather Hofmeister is Professor, Speaker, Leader, Coach, Writer, and Researcher. She holds a full Professorship for Sociology of Work at the Goethe-University, Frankfurt and is co-director of the Center for Leadership and Behavior in Organizations (CLBO).
She speaks internationally on topics in work, gender, diversity, leadership, careers, and science, using a life course and international comparative perspective. Hofmeister served three years as Vice-Rector at RWTH Aachen University as the first woman in the Rectorate from age 35 and held the first professorship of Sociology with the specialty in Gender and Life Course Research there. In Frankfurt, she served as Chair of the Department of Sociology, Chair of the Board of Examiners, and Dean of Studies at the Goethe University Faculty of Social Sciences. She has led and currently leads large interdisciplinary research projects as PI, serves on the Board of Trustees of the Technical University of Munich (TUM), and served on the Board of Trustees at the University of Bamberg. Hofmeister is a trained coach and facilitates groups and classes of up to 800. Hofmeister came to Germany from the USA with a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2002.

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)

This offer is free for all  students, doctoral student and scientists of the Faculty of Engineering.

Registration is required by February 27, 2023.

https://www.apps.tf.fau.de/anmeldung/career-science/

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.

If you have any further questions, please contact Hanna Stöcker, tf-frauenbeauftragte@fau.de.