Workshop for Early Career Investigators in Engineered Living Materials (DFG)
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) announces the first “Workshop for Early Career Investigators in Engineered Living Materials (ELM)”. Early career scientists interested in this emerging and rapidly growing field will be interdisciplinary trained and prepared for the submission of their own project proposal at the DFG. The participants will have the opportunity to further develop their own innovative ideas and apply for one-year funding to kick-off their career in ELM.
Target Group
This programme targets doctoral researchers in their last year of PhD thesis and postdocs having obtained their PhD within the past four years with a background in material science, synthetic biology, biotechnology, biophysics, bioinformatics or complementary fields. In this stage, they have acquired research expertise in one particular field, and are about to initiate or just initiated a complementary training as next career step. The workshop for early career investigators will provide them an opportunity to initiate their own research programme in the emerging field of ELM, for which a rapidly increasing interest for qualified individuals in the academic and industrial job market is expected as consequence of the “biological transformation” of technology progresses. Given the interdisciplinary nature of ELM, we expect a diverse background of participants including materials sciences, synthetic biology, biophysics, or biotechnology.
Further Information on the workshop can soon be found at: www.engineeredlivingmaterials.de
For a guide to applying for individual research grants, see DFG form 50.01: www.dfg.de/formulare/50_01
Submission of application via email to: Petra.Lueck@leibniz-inm.de
For scientific questions, contact the coordinators of the workshop:
Prof. Dr. Aránzazu Del Campo, Scientific Director & Department Head Dynamic Biomaterials, Professor for Materials Chemistry, Saarland University, INM-Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Campus D2 2, 66123 Saarbrücken, phone: +49 681 9300-510, aranzazu.delcampo@leibniz-inm.de
Prof. Dr. Wilfried Weber, Professor of Synthetic Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Schänzlestraße 18, 79104 Freiburg im Breisgau, phone: +49 761 203-97654, wilfried.weber@biologie.uni-freiburg.de
For administrative question, please contact the DFG Head Office: Dr. Cosima Schuster, Kennedyallee 40, 53175 Bonn, Tel. +49 228 885-22271, cosima.schuster@dfg.de