MARUM Research Academy

Career Development

Career development for early career researchers is a key objective of MARUM. We offer a number of resources and programmes to assist doctoral and postdoctoral researchers in reflecting on their career and to develop a career strategy.

Our offers include

List of links to job advertisements

Mirror & Map: Reflect and Navigate your Career

We are currently developing this new format for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers.

Through guided conversations, you will:

Reflect (Mirror): Explore who you are, what you’re good at, and what you value.
Navigate (Map): Discuss options and identify practical steps toward future career paths.

Workshops and Trainings

include, for example:

Career planning - Identify your competencies

Science as a story - how to improve your outreach and impact

Women and Career

How to get involved in science communication activities in marine sciences (in Bremen)

Conveying the message - communicationg complex science to non-experts

From career choice to career goal- Standing your ground and finding a job - for female scientists

From career choice to career goal with a convincing application

Sketchnotes for Scientists

A Film Studio in Your Pocket - Creating Scientific Short Films with a Smartphone

Twitter as a Tool for Scientists

Basics of Science Communication: Writing for the Media and the Public

Infoveranstaltung zum Quer-/Seiteneinstieg in das Lehramt
(From science to secondary school - how to become a teacher in Germany)

course programme 2025

Meeting professionals: job perspectives in academia and in other fields

MARUM Career Day

Past events

Career Chats

Insights into academic and post-academic job perspectives

Career development for postdocs and early-stage group leaders

Workshops for Postdocs

Career Paths of Marine and Climate Scientists

Career Paths Symposium

Bi-annual symposium with professionals from marine and climate sciences who work in non-academic fields.

Newsletter for job seekers

For members of MARUM and of our partner institutions who are looking for a job or are interested in gathering some information about the job market, we have a mailing list that you can subscribe to.

As a member of this list, you will receive recent job postings and some information that may be interesting for job seekers for both, the academic and the non-academic job market.

Jobs announced are mainly for people with a doctorate.

To subscribe, visit https://listserv.marum.de/sympa/info/job-seekers

Please note that you can only subscribe from within the University of Bremen network. If you are outside the network and would like to subscribe, please send an e-mail to [Bitte aktivieren Sie Javascript]. Please explain what your relation to MARUM is.

Great success:

Since the newsletter has been launched in mid 2019, fourteen people (that we know of) have started a new position which they found through this newsletter.

Some of the feedback we have received:

"A really great service and so helpful!"

"The newsletter really helped me understand the market better and opened up my opportunities."

"I really appreciate the effort that you put into finding these, the diversity of positions, and even the name that you give to the documents is already super helpful!"

"I wasn't really looking for a job, but I am following the newsletter and then I found a job that I thought was really interesting - and I got it!"