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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 over 30 Skills & Careers Webinars with 82 speakers from 20 countries and more than 4,700 participants. Career topics have included making the transition to a group leader role, regulatory affairs, medical communications, consulting, science policy, research management, careers in pharma and biotech, data science, science communication, technology transfer, and many more. Skills covered include networking, interviewing and communicating complexity.

Upcoming webinars:

  • Project Management with AI: Blending Human Insight and Machine Support | 22 October from 11:00-12:00 (CEST) | Registration open
    • Jacobo Miranda, Bioinformatics Training Officer at the Data Science Centre, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Germany

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 be available also to non-EMBL participants.

  • EMBL Entrepreneurial Minds | Christian Tidona, BioMed X – How to innovate at the interface between academia and industry | Friday, 10 October 11:00–12:00 (CEST) | Registration open

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 receives funding under Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions COFUND (grant number 847543).

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