HHU Career Days 2025
04/05 November 2025
Are you ready to take off? — Leave the academic world and find out about jobs in business and society.
As part of the HHU Career Days, HHU alumni and other guests present their current job and report on how they got into the respective position. Find out about career paths and opportunities outside university and get in contact with experts.
We will discuss together which skills you need in the various professional fields, which competencies you have already acquired during your doctorate or postdoc, and how you can best use these competencies in the application process for your next job.
Many new impulses for your own career are waiting for you!
Programm - 04 November 2025 (HHU campus)
Welcome and Introduction
Language: Englisch
How do I use my competence portfolio for my (future) job?
For doctoral and postdoctoral researchers it is often a challenge to acknowledge how valuable their skills and experiences are for the non-academic labour market. This panel-discussion gives you insights into the different career paths of HHU alumni and how they settled into their jobs after their doctorate by using their skills. This session will support you to see job opportunities outside of academia. The following get-together will allow you to get into further discussion with the panelists.
Dr. Angela Siebold
Wissenschaftsladen Bonn e.V.
Zoran Nikolic
Deloitte GmbH
Dr. Björn Schmitt
Startup4Med
Moderation:
Dr. Debbie Radtke, iGRAD
Language: Englisch
This event is limited to 80 participants.
„Meet the Experts“
Informal exchange with the experts
Meet-up 1: Dr. Angela Siebold, Wissenschaftsladen Bonn e.V.
Meet-up 2: Zoran Nikolic, Deloitte GmbH
Meet-up 3: Björn Schmitt, Startup4Med
Language: English
This event is limited to 80 participants.
Programm - 05 November 2025 (online)
Navigating the jungle of options - Get your career started
Introductory presentation
Speakers: Dr. Debbie Radtke & Dr. Kristina Rubarth
iGRAD & philGRAD
Language: English
| Parallel events | |
Leading an R&D lab in industry | Der Weg ins Museum |
| Expert: Dr. Philipp Hanisch Cube Biotech | Expert: Dr. Linda Walther Museum Quadrat, Bottrop |
| Moderation: Dr. Cordula Kruse / Dr. Stephanie Spelberg Language: English | Moderation: Dr. Gina Möller Language: German |
Parallel events | |
Internationals on the German job market | Wissenschaftsmanagement als Berufsfeld |
Experts: Dr. Flamina Mazzone (Henkel) | Experts: Dr. Lea Bönisch (Hochschule Niederrhein) |
| Moderation: Dr. Martina Holz Language: English | Moderation: Dr. Kristina Rubarth Language: German |
Parallel events | |
Communicating Science through PR and Outreach | Quereinstieg ins Lehramt |
| Expert: Dr. Mia von Scheven Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research | Expert: Dr. Marcel Zimmerman |
| Moderation: Dr. Juliane Schmid Language: English | Moderation: Dr. Daniela Geist Language: German |
Job Perspectives in Consulting |
| Expert: Dr. Kira Müntjes Leyton Deutschland GmbH |
| Moderation: Dr. Lilli Bismar Language: English |
The HHU Career Days are a joint project of:
