Universität Leipzig: Career development

Careers in Science

After a successful dissertation, a career in science can be attractive: it offers the opportunity to devote yourself intensively to personal research interests, to network and to develop your own ideas.

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The postdoc phase

The postdoc phase is the key stage of your academic career on the way to a professorship or permanent academic position. What characterises this phase and what requirements do you face as a postdoc?

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Leipzig Tenure-Track Programme

The Leipzig Tenure-Track Programme offers an early and plannable perspective for a lifetime professorship.

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Habilitation

In many disciplines, the habilitation is still the decisive path to a professorship.

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Junior Professorship

This enables you to research and teach without being subject to directives and to gain qualifications in the process.

Careers outside of academia

Researchers do not always opt for a permanent academic career. There are also structural reasons for considering alternative career paths after the doctorate.