Minutes - Postdoc Committee Meeting 8.4.2019

Meeting date: 3 April 2019  

Meeting place: Nygaard 395, CS, AU

Meeting subject: Post Doc Committee meeting 

Attendees: Sabine Oechsneri, Gopinaath Kannabiran, Ira Assent, Gerth Brodahl, Dorthe Nielsen (minute taker).

Apologies: Zahra Jafargholi, Ivan Damgård

Agenda:

1. The just concluded work place assessment - timeline

2. Forming a follow-up group to work with topics/issues pointed out by post doc group in the assessment

3. Finding 2 dates before summer for the follow-up group to meet

4. Overview of post doc activities in 2019

5. Topics for postdoc/PhD retreat 30 August at Moesgaard

6. AOB

Ad 1)

Timeline was presented 

Ad 2)

Dorthe will send out mail to find volunteers

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Dorthe will do this

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Next event will be 22 May with Lars Birkedal giving a talk about how to structure/write a CV  

Summer event Junior REsearcher Retreat 28 August at Moesgaard

One more event tbd in autumn 2019

Ad 5)

Suggested topics for retreat:

  • What do you do after your PhD if not industry or academia?
  • Entrepreneurship, start-ups, people from NGOs, junior research association, Center for forksningsanalyse?
  • Maybe have 2-3 speakers who ventured elsewhere (Aino Vonge, FieldSense, Scalgo…) (Joint PhD and PostDoc session)
  • How to apply for Postdocs/jobs across cultural differences, how to apply for funding
  • The funding system in Denmark and EU (Lars/Mogens)
  • Going out after Moesgaard – dinner together in downtown Aarhus
  • Learning to say no politely, learn how to prioritize things, time management 

Ad 6)       

    • Clear outcome of lunch topic
    • How to live in Aarhus / what to get out of it
    • Daniela Trifiletti at postdoc lunch/dinner?
    • Budget for social events?