International Graduate School in Molecular Medicine Ulm (IGradU)

The goals and advantages of JF

Goals

The Junior Faculty aims to achieve the following goals:

  1. Advance Careers: Ensure members are well-prepared for success in academic or industry careers.
  2. Strengthen Faculty Bonds: Encourage interactions and facilitate productive collaborations among members.
  3. Offer Development and Support, including:

    • Opportunities for skill development.

    • Advice on balancing personal and professional responsibilities.

    • Constructive feedback and positive reinforcement.

    • Commitment to gender equality and parity.

Advantages of Junior Faculty Membership:

1. Academic Authority and Mentoring

  • PhD Supervision Eligibility: Acquire the formal opportunity to participate in doctoral education by serving as a member of the Thesis Advisory Committee (TAC), with necessary support and oversight provided by your senior faculty supervisor.

  • Structured Mentoring Access: Benefit from institutionally supported mentoring frameworks, including targeted gender programs, formal dyadic (one-on-one) mentorship, and collaborative peer-to-peer mentoring groups.

2. Professional Development and Funding

  • Continuing Education Support: Access dedicated internal funds specifically designated to support your participation in further professional or continuing education courses.

  • Skill Enhancement: Participate in workshops and programs designed to advance key academic skills (e.g., leadership, grant acquisition, teaching methods).

3. Internal Networking and Collaboration

  • Interdisciplinary Networking: Utilize structured internal arrangements, such as the annual Junior Faculty meeting and the Science Fair, to foster scientific networking and interdisciplinary collaboration with junior researchers across the institution.

Requirements for participation

For Joining the JF you either need third party funding for at least 24 months (Examples are: grants from BMBF, DFG, foundations such as Deutsche Krebshilfe, Herthie or Volkswagen, EU programs, Margarethe-von-Wrangel-habilitation program for women) or two (co-) corresponding authorships on original peer-reviewed publications (not review articles).  Additionally, your research focuses should cover the fields of molecular medicine! 
Please note: Intramural funding (e.g., the Bausteinprogramm, etc) administered by Ulm University/University Hospital does not qualify as external third-party funding and therefore cannot fulfill the prerequisites for Junior Faculty membership.
Junior Faculty members who meet these requirements qualify for the supervision of PhD-candidates as additional TAC member together with the senior faculty supervisor (TAC 1). 

Furthermore, third party funding based on a reviewed application process which includes the funding of a PhD-position from these sources may qualify for supervision as TAC 1 for the funded PhD according to § 5 para. 3 c of the Regulatory framework for doctoral studies. The PhD-committee determines which funding programmes qualify for the supervision of doctoral candidates in this context. 

Join our JF programme

Fill the application form, inserting your CV and your paper list, in which you mark those papers  you are the corresponding author of. 
You will be notified by mail about the future proceeding.

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