PIER Graduate Week

The PIER Graduate Week is an interdisciplinary lecture and workshop week for young scientists. It offers two scientific block courses for  doctoral researchers in the wide range of the PIER research fields of Particle & Astroparticle Physics, Nanoscience, Photon Science and Infection & Structural Biology. Complementary soft skill courses take place on 10-13 October.

The scientific courses are a four-day series of eight consecutive mini lectures (6-9 Octobe). Course 1 is on "Optical and X-ray Techniques in Photon Science", course 2 covers "Scientific Software Development". The graduate week's main objective is to give young scientists on Bahrenfeld campus the opportunity to broaden their interdisciplinary understanding and interchange with their colleagues from other research fields. 

Extras:

+ Industry talk – including career “speed dating” options with Thermo Fisher, a global American life science and clinical research company 
+ Workshops on AI-powered time and self-management and scientific writing using AI assistants
+ Career planning and career counselling sessions 
+ Talk and discussion on Mental Health in Academia
+ Interdisciplinary poster session: All participants are invited to present their research projects in a poster session.