Our first HUPs event of the year = a success! 🎉
Almost 60 participants joined our Heidelberg-themed Pub Quiz & Networking Night.
🏆 Winners: Slow Beer Pils #1 (Pietro & the Blue Baracudas)
🥈 Shared 2nd: Food for Thought & The Imposters
Can’t wait to see you at our next event!
New week, new HUPs member spotlight!
👋🏻 Meet Evangelia Pollali, Executive Committee Member. She is an interdisciplinary neuroscientist studying networks that mediate emotional behaviors and memory. She values building a supportive community where postdocs can connect both socially and academically.
New week, new HUPs member!
👋🏻 Meet Alec Cali, General Executive. He is a mixed methodologist leading a research group on disability & exclusion in health. He joined HUPs to represent interdisciplinary early career researchers and advocate for more sustainable academic career pathways.
New week, new HUPs member!
👋🏻 Meet Sarah Sentis, Social Media Manager. She studies how the brain regulates body temperature, and why some people cope better with heat than others. She values HUPs for creating a safe and supportive space where postdocs in Heidelberg can connect beyond their research.
🎉 Join our HUPs Postdoc Pub Quiz Night on March 5, 5 PM at COS (INF 230, Room 005)! Meet fellow postdocs, enjoy free pizza & drinks, and compete for a prize. Teams up to 6 or join on arrival.
Please register in advance: heidelbergunipostd.wixsite.com/heidelberg-p...
Job opportunity for
👉 Full Stack Developer at the Health + Life Science Alliance Data Space
Applications till March 31, 2026
at the University Clinic Heidelberg (UKHD)
https://karriere.klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php?ac=jobad&id=27189
#jobpost #Fullstackdeveloper #dataspace #hiring
@julesdu.bsky.social
New week, new HUPs member spotlieght!
👋🏻 Meet Jules Duruz, General Executive. He studies the behaviour of small marine invertebrates to better understand nervous system evolution. He values building a supportive, interdisciplinary postdoc community and especially enjoys HUPs networking events.
New week, new HUPs member spotlight!
👋🏻 Meet Magdalena Wierzbicka, Communication Manager & Event Coordinator. She works on the development of drugs targeting the blood–brain barrier in brain cancers. She enjoys connecting with fellow postdocs while exploring the many paths postdoc life can offer.
Job opportunity for
👉 Cloud Engineer at the Health + Life Science Alliance Data Space
Submit applications till February 28, 2026
at Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg (UKHD)
#jobpost #cloudengineer #dataspace
karriere.klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php?ac...
New week, new HUPs member!
👋🏻 Meet Rachel Gilmore, Secretary of our network. She studies Schaaf-Yang syndrome, a rare neurodevelopmental disorder, using animal and cellular models. She enjoys being part of HUPs and representing the postdoc community at the university level and beyond.
New week, new HUPs member!
👋🏻 Meet Oscar O’Dwyer Lancaster-Jones, Treasurer of our network. He develops new methods for engineering heart tissue from many cells. He enjoys being part of a young, interdisciplinary network and helping shape something new at Heidelberg University.
Alliance Translational Research Program provides funding to expedite early-stage research with eventual commercialization potential.
#LifeSciences #HLSAlliance #TranslationalResearch
Opens 1/15/26
https://www.health-life-sciences.de/opportunities/translation/
New week, new HUPs member!
👋🏻 Meet Karel Mocaer, Vice-President of our network. She works with volume electron microscopy and complementary techniques to study the visual system of marine flatworms. She is passionate about building platforms that connect postdocs and help access career development!
Starting 2026 by introducing the people behind our Postdoc Network!
👋🏻 Meet Sabrina Lewis, President of our network. She studies spatial omics, using microscopy to profile immune responses and drug toxicity in patient tumours. She founded the network to connect postdocs across disciplines!
🎄 Christmas Market Meetup Recap!
Great to see postdocs from Heidelberg University, DKFZ, Max Planck & EMBL come together for a festive evening in the city. Thanks to everyone who joined — more postdoc meetups to come! ✨
🎄 Christmas Market Meetup!
Join HUPs, DKFZ, Max Planck & EMBL postdocs on Dec 10 at 6PM.
📍 Meet outside Hof-Apotheke (Sofienstraße 11).
Family & friends welcome!
Register 👉 heidelbergunipostd.wixsite.com/heidelberg-p...
We had a fantastic time at the @nightscience.bsky.social workshop yesterday! Postdocs and PhD students explored the creative scientific process. A huge thank you to @itaiyanai.bsky.social for hosting a fantastic workshop and @natgabrielli.bsky.social for organising a great event.
🎤 Last week we held a town hall meeting to exchange ideas and chat to @uniheidelberg.bsky.social postdocs.
🥙 We also co-hosted a lunch with @dkfz.bsky.social PDNC to celebrate postdocs' contributions to Heidelberg.
🙏 Thanks to @bioxcell.bsky.social for sponsoring the lunch!
#PostdocAppreciationWeek
🌟 Yesterday we kicked off #PAW2025 with our first event! Together with DKFZ PDN, we hosted Dr. Susanne Scheer (heiTRACKS) for an inspiring hybrid seminar on career barriers. 40+ postdocs joined onsite & online. More PAW events coming this week – see our program!
Fantastic opportunity to connect and meet postdocs from other institutions in Heidelberg. #interinstitutional #postdoc
🎉 Postdoc Appreciation Week is almost here! Sept 15–19 in Heidelberg: headshots, career seminar, impostor workshop, CV checks, town hall & lunch. Don’t miss out – register now! 👉 paw-germany.de or directly via the QR codes below #PostdocAppreciationWeek #HUPs #PDN_DKFZ
🎉 Postdoc Appreciation Week is coming (Sept 15–19)! 🎉
In Heidelberg we’re hosting CV checks, a career seminar, an online workshop, a Town Hall & a Postdoc lunch 🙌
👉 Details & registration: paw-germany.de
#HUPs #PAW2025
📅 Mark your calendars: Postdoc Appreciation Week is Sept 15–19! 🎉
HUPs has exciting events planned + join the program at paw-germany.de 🌍
Details & registration coming soon — watch your inbox! 💌
#PAW2025 #HUPs
Thanks to everyone who joined us for our second fully booked Funding Opportunities Seminar with Dr. Yvonne Pachmayer from the Heidelberg Research Service. 🎉 Stay tuned for more exciting talks and events!
☀️ Great turnout at our rescheduled Postdoc Picnic with DKFZ!
Thanks to the sunshine & all who joined us on the Neckarwiese to connect, chat & relax.
Looking forward to more joint events soon!
#HUPs #PDN #DKFZ #PostdocLife #Heidelberg #AcademicCommunity
🧺 New date for the Postdoc Picnic!
📅 June 18 | 🕔 5–9 PM
📍 Neckarwiese (weather permitting)
Relax & connect with fellow postdocs! Bring food, drinks & a blanket.
📝 Register: heidelbergunipostd.wixsite.com/heidelberg-p...
#HUPs #PostdocLife #DKFZ #Heidelberg
✅ Thanks to all who joined our seminar with Heidelberg Research Service!
💡 Funding tips, research support & great Q&A.
📩 We will be holding an additional seminar for Postdocs > 3 years post-PhD in the coming months. Please keep an eye out for emails to register for this event.
#HUPs #PostdocLife
🌧️ Event Postponed Due to Weather
We are sorry for any inconvenience but the wheather is not with us this week ;)
We’ll reschedule soon—stay tuned for updates via email & our socials. Thanks for understanding!
📢 Reminder: Heidelberg Postdoc Symposium 2025
🗓 June 27 | 📍 DKFZ Communication Center
🧠 Talks, posters, prizes, networking & more!
📝 Submit abstracts by May 22
📌 Register by May 29
🔗 indico.dkfz.de/event/1312/
#PostdocLife #DKFZ #HUPs #Networking
