Pia Götze (pictured left), 31 years old, has a PhD in chemistry. She has been with the Boston Consulting Group ( BCG) for more than 4 years now. Interviewed by Next Wave Germany Editor Eick von Ruschkowski, she discussed her career transition from chemistry into the consulting business. Read this article in German. Next Wave: Tell us about your academic background. Götze: After completing seconda...
S cience?s Next Wave Germany is pleased to highlight its strategic alliance with Science-Jobs-De. Science-Jobs-De is Germany's only national, cross-disciplinary job engine for the academic job market. The service is free of charge, both to job seekers using the portal for their job search and for employers posting their job openings to the site. Between 60 and 100 new job offers from the scientif...
p ia Götze, 31 Jahre alt, ist promovierte Chemikerin und seit nunmehr vier Jahren bei der Boston Consulting Group ( BCG) als Unternehmensberaterin tätig. Im Gespräch mit Next Wave-Redakteur Eick von Ruschkowski berichtet sie vom Weg einer Chemikerin in die Consultingbranche. Read this article in English. Next Wave: Welchen Ausbildungsweg haben Sie hinter sich? Götze: Ich habe in Pinneberg in Schl...
Think about work and you probably picture yourself in a nice, heated lab or office, the coffeemaker steaming and the radio playing in the background. After work, you can hop into your car, or jump on your bike, and head for home. Things are quite different for many of the authors in this month's feature. They have made two of the world's most extreme work environments--the polar regions--their fi...
BACK TO THE FEATURE INDEX Chemistry and classical music might seem like strange bedfellows, but they are not. For the past couple of years, the music of Germany's great composers, such as Ludwig van Beethoven and Johann Sebastian Bach, has kept a few chemists very busy. When it comes to preserving original manuscripts, chemistry can be the enemy of music. Documents produced prior to the invention...
Press coverage in the run up to next week's final Bundestag vote on the import of human embryonic stem cells might give the impression that all stem cell research in Germany is on hold. The reality is very different. This is a large and diverse field in which the German Ministry for Research and Education (BMBF) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Germany's largest public research fund...
If you want to know what it feels like to be in charge of your own research project, including financial responsibility for up to ? 1.2 million, Grigori Vajenine from the Russian Federation will soon be able to tell you. At age 27, he is the youngest of 29 young scientists who were awarded a Sofja Kovalevskaja Award in Berlin last week. Named after a 19th-century Russian mathematician, the award ...
The debate about ethics in bio and life sciences in Germany was refueled last week: While Germany's central research funding organization, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), decided to revise its position on human stem cell research, the German government is finally reacting to heated public debates about sensitive issues by establishing a National Ethics Commission. In its white paper on...
If when you hear the word ?geoscientist,? you picture someone with a hammer and a shovel trying to determine soil or rock types, your image is partly correct. If you imagine someone searching for oil in a desert or drilling deep holes, there?s nothing wrong there, either. But although career paths like these are typical for many geoscientists, they do not paint the whole picture. Like scientists ...
Young scientists will be among the beneficiaries of four new large-scale research facilities to be built over the next 10 years. The German science ministry ( BMBF) last week announced support for the projects to the tune of ?1.6 billion, giving the green light to a high magnetic field laboratory in Saxony's Rossendorf, a new atmospheric research plane for the German Aerospace Center (DLR), a hea...
S cience's Next Wave Germany and Science-Jobs-DE, hosted by the University of Heidelberg, have formed a strategic alliance with the aim of improving access to career advice and job search assistance for young scientists in Germany. Next Wave and Science-Jobs-DE recognise and meet the high demand for career information among graduates, postgraduates, and postdocs. The portals? creators believe tha...
Die Probleme der deutschen Forschung liegen nicht im Geld, sondern in der Vergabe desselben - das meint zumindest der Freiburger Siegfried Bär, der bereits als Autor des Buches ?Forschen auf deutsch" für Aufsehen sorgte. Und damit es bei der Vergabe der Gelder in Zukunft für bislang ratlose junge (aber auch gestandene) Wissenschaftler ein wenig einfacher wird, hat Bär ein weiteres Buch geschriebe...
Next Wave Germany dropped in on the world's largest industrial fair held on the Hannover fairgrounds this week and found a great place for job-hunting scientists. Despite the recently announced downward correction of the annual growth rate prognosis for Germany, the industrial sector is still optimistic about the current economic situation. And so the demand for skilled scientists remains high. S...
The future is bright for German physicists. "Light and optical technologies will be one of the most important technologies in the future," according to Wolf-Michael Catenhusen of the German Federal Ministry of Research and Education ( BMBF), which has just launched a substantial funding programme for the field. Called Optical Technologies--Made in Germany, the budget for the programme will see an...
Im Rahmen des ?Jahres der Geowissenschaften 2002" findet in Bremen vom 27. - 29. Juni 2002 ein dreitägiger Workshop zum Thema ?Wege zu einer wissenschaftlichen Karriere - gewußt wie!" statt. Der Workshop wird vom Zentrum für Marine Umweltwissenschaften MARUM an der Universität Bremen und Science's Next Wave mit Unterstützung des Stifterverbandes für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, der Deutschen Forsch...
The road between Germany and the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) can seem like a one-way street for scientists. While about a quarter of all foreign researchers and students in Germany is from Eastern Europe, only 2% or 3% of mobile Germans choose to go in the opposite direction. In absolute numbers, this means that there are about 34,000 Eastern European students in Germany compare...
If you want to know how a gene is built, study genomics. But if you want to know what a gene does, then it's time to start talking about a rapidly expanding new field: proteomics. In Germany alone, proteomics is expected to consume the lion's share of the 350 million DM (US$160 million) recently allocated to fund the National Genome Research Network Nationales Genomforschungsnetz) for the next 3 ...
Young scientists from Germany and beyond are being invited to apply for nearly 100 earmarked research posts. Just a few short weeks ago research minister Edelgard Bulmahn's controversial reforms of the academic sector were passed by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's cabinet. Already three major institutions have announced that they will start hiring immediately for the newly created "junior professor...
How much does Germany do for its educational system? Not enough--at least financially--as the latest Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD) report "Education at a Glance" states. In an international survey on educational investments compared to gross domestic products, Germany is ranked only seventh behind Sweden, Finland, Japan, Switzerland, the United States, and Korea. A...
