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Postdoc status without employment contract

Information about the affiliation as a postdoc or habilitation candidate
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Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena)

As a postdoc, you can do research and use resources at Jena University, even if you do not (yet) have an employment contract with Jena University. This applies in particular to

  • Postdocs in transitional phases, for example while they are applying for a fellowship or submitting their own third-party funding application,
  • external habilitation candidates,
  • lecturers with a PhD, who are doing research in affiliation with Jena University at the same time.

With the status as a postdoc of Jena University, you have the possibility to

  • get an account with the university computer centre and a campus card (thoska),
  • participate in qualification courses offered by the Graduate Academy and the Servicestelle LehreLernen (institute for university didactics qualification),
  • to apply for announcements for postdocs of the Jena University (Pro Chance exchange, Impulse conferences, organisation of scientific events).

In order to get the postdoc status at Jena University and to use the connected resources, the following steps are necessary:

  • Acceptance and confirmation of a professor

    The first step is to get a professor's confirmation that you can do research at their chair or institute and receive support for your research project. Depending on the field of research, this may include the use of a laboratory and working material, in other cases it may involve non-material support through feedback or the support of a third-party funding application. In any case, the thematic integration and support is the prerequisite for the postdoctoral status at Jena University.

  • Registration as a postdoc and guest research contract

    When having an agreement with a professor, please register in the postdoc registration portalExternal link. Via the registration portal you will receive the guest researcher contract, which your supervisor must sign. With this contract you can use certain resources of the University.

  • IT-Service

    Postdoctoral researchers can have a an account with the university computer centre. This account contains:

    You will receive this account after your registration.

  • thoska / Campus Card

    The Thuringian university identity card, or thoska, is a multifunction campus card, which allows you to identify yourself as a guest researcher of Jena University, use the library, photocopy or scan documents, and pay by card in the canteens and cafeterias. You will receive the thoska after your registration.

  • Qualification offers

    As a postdoc, you will have the opportunity to take part in various qualification workshops and classes (except for workshops of Staff Development). You may find all offered workshops of Graduate Academy and other university institutions hereExternal link.

  • Newsletter

    If you wish to receive regular updates on the latest announcements of scholarships, offers for advanced education and training or events at the University of Jena, subscribe to our information for postdocs. This information includes the postdoc newsletter which is published via e-mail about four times a year in German and English.

    Please register here.

Notice

If you are looking for information on a research stay as a guest postdoc (including entry to Germany and accommodation), please look here.

Contact

Advise at Welcome and Service Desk for Doctoral Candidates and Postdocs

Advise at Welcome and Service Desk for Doctoral Candidates and Postdocs

Image: Jan-Peter Kasper (University of Jena)

At the Welcome and Service Desk for Doctoral Candidates and Postdocs, assistance and advice are offered to all researchers of Jena University. For example, you can contact us with questions on the following topics:

  • orientation at the university and in the city,
  • contact to the International Tutoring Service
  • information about service offers of the university

You can find us on the ground floor in the House for Young Researchers, Johnannisstraße 13 (vis-à-vis to the cafeteria). You can also write us an e-mail to graduate.academy@uni-jena.de.

 

Contact

Welcome and Service Desk for Doctoral Candidates and Postdocs

House for Young Researchers "Zur Rosen", Room Ground floor
Johannisstraße 13
07743 Jena

Opening hours:
Monday, Wednesday:
10.00h – 12.00h

Tuesday, Thursday:
10.00h – 12.00h, 14.00h – 16.00h

Further information