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EMBL Career Development

A career development blog for early-career researchers in life sciences

This blog aims to inspire early-career researchers who are exploring different career options and developing their skills. We provide interview-based profiles of life scientists working in diverse science-related careers, as well as articles on a broad range of career and skills development topics, with new content added regularly.


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.

Before you submit your fellowship application: Five things to know

As part of our ongoing commitment to supporting researchers in their career development, we hosted a Fellowship Q&A session in February 2026 featuring EMBL fellows Andrew Michael Hogan, recipient of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Fellowship, Karin Prummel, an EMBO Fellow, and David…

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The EMBL Fellows' Career Service incorporates the EMBL Interdisciplinary Postdoc (EIPOD) career development programme. EI3POD and EIPOD4 have received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreements 664726 (2015-2020) and 847543 (2019-present) respectively.
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