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EMBL Fellows' Career Service

Career guidance for early career researchers in the life sciences and related fields

The EMBL Fellows’ Career Service provides career support for predoctoral and postdoctoral fellows across EMBL’s six sites. We also offer openly available information, resources, and events about careers for all life science researchers.

Through these activities, we help early career researchers to be proactive and make informed decisions about their career planning in academia, industry R&D, and other sectors.

Our public resources and events

EMBL Skills & Careers Webinars

The EMBL Fellows’ Career Service organizes regular career webinars covering non-academic and academic career areas and related-topics. Since 2020, we’ve held over 30 webinars, with 69 speakers from 19 countries and over 4600 attendees in total.

We are excited to announce that we’re expanding our webinar series to include future sessions focused on skills development. Our new EMBL Skills & Careers Webinars format will launch in June 2025 with a cross-over topic bridging careers and skills.

Our webinars are free of charge and open to participants from EMBL and from other institutions. Participants must register to attend.

  • Communicating Complexity: How to Explain Complex Ideas in Simple Words | 16 July from 11:00-12:00 (CEST) | Registration open
    • Shreya Ghosh, Communications Editor, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany
  • Interview Skills: Hiring and Being Hired in Academia | 16 June from 11:00-12:00 (CEST) | Registration open
    • Ana Boskovic, Group Leader, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Italy
    • André Nadler, Senior Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG), Germany
    • Rafael Galupa, Group Leader, Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI), France
  • Reinventing your PhD: unexpected career paths | 22 May from 11:00-12:00 (CEST) | Registration open
    • Euan Monaghan, Book designer and publisher (former scientist investigating Mars habitability), The Netherlands
    • Matthias Stahl, Head Data and Visualizations at Der Spiegel (former scientist in biochemistry and proteomics research), Germany
  • Making the transition to a group leader role| 21 March from 11:00-12:00 (CET) | Closed
    • Alexandre Almeida, Principal Investigator (MRC Career Development Fellow), University of Cambridge, UK
    • Lisa Maier, Professor (Emmy-Noether Program), University of Tübingen, Germany
    • Beatriz Trastoy, Group Leader (Ramón y Cajal and Ikerbasque Research Fellow), IIS Biobizkaia, Spain
  • Strategic alliances and industry partnerships | 21 February from 11:00-12:00 (CET) | Closed
    • Marzia Sidri, Strategy, Operations and Alliances Manager at Cellzome, Germany
    • Vassilis Georgiadis, Director of Industry Partnerships at King’s College London, UK

Get updates: The EMBL Events Quarterly Newsletter includes our EMBL Careers Webinars and other EMBL events. Subscribe to this, or other EMBL Events newsletters here.

Support available to EMBL PhDs and postdocs

At EMBL, the Fellows’ Career Service provides support at all stages of the career planning process through a portfolio of tailored activities and resources that include:

  • Individual career guidance sessions
  • Job application materials checks
  • Information and resources
  • Career workshops and events
  • Specific activities for predocs and postdocs

The EMBL Fellows’ Career Service incorporates the EIPOD career development service, which receives funding under Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions COFUND (grant number 847543).

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