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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

EMBL Skills & Careers Webinars bring together perspectives on career paths and practical insights into skills development. 

Since 2020, we have hosted 39 Skills & Careers Webinars with 94 speakers from 20 countries and more than 5,500 participants. Career topics have included making the transition to a group leader role, choosing a postdoc, careers in pharma and biotech R&D, regulatory affairs, medical communications, consulting, science policy, data science, science communication, technology transfer, and many more. Skills covered include networking, interviewing and communicating complexity.

Upcoming webinars:

  • EMBL Skills & Careers Webinar: Careers in core facilities and scientific services | 27 March 2026, 15:00-16:00 CET | Registration
    • Marvin Albert, Staff of D-BSSE Single Cell Facility at ETH Zürich (Switzerland)
    • João Sequeira, Head of the Scientific Computing Core Facility at HCEEM (Hungary)
    • Andy Riddell, Head of Flow Cytometry Science and Technology Platform at The Francis Crick Institute (UK)

EMBL Entrepreneurial Minds

EMBL Entrepreneurial Minds events explore entrepreneurship, technology transfer, research commercialisation, and start-up landscapes. Organised by EMBLEM, the technology transfer partner and commercial arm of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, with support from the EMBL Fellows’ Career Service, the series offers participants practical insights from experts with first-hand experience. The next event in this series will take place on April 14th in Hamburg (details to come).

Get updates: The EMBL Events Quarterly Newsletter includes our EMBL Skills & 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 received funding under Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions COFUND (grant number 847543).

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