Researchprofile

Your research profile is one of the most important factors in your scientific career. The choice of research topic is shaped by your interests, but the embedding of your position in larger research projects and the current societal context can also help determine which topics are currently being researched. Nevertheless, you can shape some aspects of your research profile at an early stage.

In some disciplines, a reorientation in terms of content after the doctorate is desirable, since a broad range of content and methods is required for an appointment to a professorship.

Your scientific independence can also be of great importance. This can be demonstrated, for example, by publications for which you are the sole author.

Experienced scientists from your field can give you information about the importance of these factors in your discipline. You also have the possibility to keep an eye on the potentially available professorships in your field and their respective denominations and to align the topic of your habilitation or habilitation-equivalent achievements with them.

You will also be able to monitor your own subject discourse, developments in the strategic orientation of universities, impulses from science policy, and developments in the research landscape as a whole. This will enable you to assess which research topics in your discipline are relevant and sustainable for the professional community, but also for funding institutions or, if applicable, industry.

In our program you will find courses on the strategic design of your research profile - if you have any further questions or need further training or external coaching, please do not hesitate to contact us.