Join our Growing Up in Science – Berlin Series!

Growing up in Science (GUIS) was started in 2014 at New York University by professors Wei Ji Ma and Cristina Alberini. Now it runs worldwide in many universities. We are glad to offer this series in Berlin too. 

Everyone in academia had to face struggles, detours, switching fields, and failures during their scientific career. However, sometimes when we look around at our colleagues and supervisors, we feel like their academic journeys were smooth and straightforward – very unlike our own. When we are asked to tell our career stories or submit our CVs, we usually focus on our achievements and successes. This, no wonder, will create an impression that struggling and failure is rare in academia.

In Growing Up in Science (GUIS) – Berlin, we would like to present more honest stories about working in academia. In every talk, we feature a scholar’s story focusing on doubts, struggles, detours and failures throughout all career stages. In this series, we aim to examine the hidden human factors of working and succeeding in academia in depth and in the context of a broader narrative

All talks

Wednesday, 22.03.2023

17:00 – 18.30h

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Growing Up in Science – Berlin with Prof. Dr. Harald Prüß

Harald Prüß is Professor and Attending Physician in the Department of Neurology at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, group leader at the DZNE Berlin and the head of the Experimental Neurology Department at the Charité. His research focuses on the mechanisms of autoantibody-mediated impairment of neuronal function in the context of various types of autoimmune encephalitis. In his talk, he will share what he learned from frustrating setbacks during all career stages, how he has been struggling doing the splits between clinical and laboratory research, and why good mood in the lab (in the meantime) means more to him than good science.

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Wednesday, 01.03.2023

(postponed from 22.02.)

17:00 – 18.30h

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Growing Up in Science – Berlin with Dr. Garret O’Connell

Garret O’Connell is a Senior Data Scientist at Bolt where he provides technical solutions for problems that matters to stakeholders. Garret has a PhD in computational neuroscience from University of Reading and worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin studying how people’s choices for future vs. immediate rewards are affected by their ability to mentally simulate the future.

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Wednesday, 25.01.2023

17:00 – 18.30h

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Growing Up in Science – Berlin with Prof. Dr. Barbara Krahé

Barbara Krahé is Professor Emerita of Social Psychology at the University of Potsdam and was head of the Social Psychology lab in the Department of Psychology from 1993 until 2021. Her research interests lie in the field of Applied Social Psychology, in particular aggression research. In her talk, she will describe her, sometimes, bumpy path to a permanent research position from the 1970s to the 1990s and reflect on the changes and constants in academia for early career researchers since that time.

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Wednesday, 30.11.2022

17:00 – 18.30h

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Event canceled

Growing Up in Science – Berlin with Jun. Prof. Dr. Hanna Drimalla

Hanna Drimalla is Junior-Professor at the Technical Faculty of Bielefeld University and leads the Multimodal Behavior Processing research group. Her work focuses on automatic affect recognition, computer-based stress measurement, and analysis of social embedding. In her talk, Hanna will tell us about her personal journey in academia (including some detours) and the ups and downs of an interdisciplinary career between psychology and computer science.

Thursday, 28.07.2022

17:00 – 18.30h

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Growing Up in Science – Berlin with Prof. Dr. Reinhold Kliegl

We invite everyone to another episode of our “Growing Up in Science – Berlin” series: Next up, we will hear from Reinhold Kliegl, a senior professor of experimental psychology at the University of Potsdam.

Thursday, 30.06.2022

17:00 – 18.30h

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Growing Up in Science – Berlin with Dr. Elisa Filevich

We invite everyone to another episode of our “Growing Up in Science – Berlin” series: Next up, we will hear from Elisa Filevich, head of the METAMOTOR LAB at the Department of Psychology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Wednesday, 25.05.2022

17:00 – 18.30h

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Growing Up in Science – Berlin with Dr. Guillermo Pérez Hernández

We invite everyone to another episode of our “Growing Up in Science – Berlin” series: Next up, we will hear from Guillermo Pérez Hernández, a postdoc at the Institute of Medical Physics and Biophysics at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

Thursday, 28.04.2022

17:00 – 18.30h

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Growing Up in Science – Berlin with Dr. Thomas Christophel

We invite everyone to another episode of our “Growing Up in Science – Berlin” series: Next up, we will hear from Thomas Christophel, head of the Distributed Cognition & Memory (DisCo) lab at the Department of Psychology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Thursday, 31.03.2022

17:00 – 18.30h

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Growing Up in Science – Berlin with Prof. Dr. Martin Rolfs

We invite everyone to another episode of our “Growing Up in Science – Berlin” series: Next up, we will hear from Martin Rolfs who is a psychologist and Heisenberg professor for experimental psychology, active perception and cognition at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.

Thursday, 03.03.2022

(postponed from 24.02.)

17:00 – 18.30h

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Growing Up in Science – Berlin with Prof. Dr. Britta Eickholt

We invite everyone to another episode of our “Growing Up in Science – Berlin” series: Next up, we will hear from Britta Eickholt. She has a background in biochemistry and is the head of the Eickholt lab at the Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin which is part of the NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence.

Thursday, 27.01.2022

17:00 – 18.30h

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Growing Up in Science – Berlin with Dr. Bettina Bewernick

We invite everyone to another episode of our “Growing Up in Science – Berlin” series: Next up, we will hear from Bettina Bewernick. She is a psychologist and part of the brain stimulation group at the department of psychiatry at the University Hospital in Bonn.

Thursday, 25.11.2021

17:00 – 18.30h

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Growing Up in Science – Berlin with Dr. Inga Grossmann

We invite everyone to another episode of our “Growing Up in Science – Berlin” series: Next up, we will hear from Inga Grossmann. She has a background in business psychology and was the chair of the psychology department at the Hochschule für Medien, Kommunikation and Wirtschaft in Berlin. Currently, she is the scientific lead at Tilda – a mental health startup providing interventions for women in their middle years.

Thursday, 28.10.2021

17:00 – 18.30h

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Growing Up in Science – Berlin with Prof. Dr. Isabel Dziobek

We invite everyone to another episode of our “Growing Up in Science – Berlin” series: Next up, we will hear from Isabel Dziobek. She is a psychologist and holds the chair of clinical psychology of social interaction at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. Additionally, she is a member of the Berlin School of Mind and Brain.

Thursday, 24.06.2021

17:00 – 18.30h

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Growing Up in Science – Berlin with Tegan Armarego-Marriott

We invite everyone to another episode of our “Growing Up in Science – Berlin” series: Next up, we will hear from Tegan Armarego-Marriott. She is a biologist and biochemist who has been working on molecular biology and works currently as an editor at Nature Climate Change. She is one of the founders of the blog “Plants and Pipettes” in which she gives insights into the secrets of the world of plan.

Thursday, 27.05.2021

17:00 – 18.30h

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Growing Up in Science – Berlin with Prof. Dr. Salvador Soto Faraco

We invite everyone to another episode of our “Growing Up in Science – Berlin” series: Next up, we will hear from Salvador Soto Faraco. He is a psychologist and cognitive scientist who is working on multisensory information processing in the brain. Currently, he is the head of the Multisensory Research Group at the Center of Brain and Cognition at the University Pompeu Fabre in Barcelona.

Thursday, 29.04.2021

17:00 – 18.30h

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Growing Up in Science – Berlin with Dr. Nico Schuck

We invite everyone to another episode of our “Growing Up in Science – Berlin” series: Next up, we will hear from Nico Schuck. He is a psychologist who works on decision making processes and learning in the brain. Currently, he is the leader of the Max Planck Group “NeuroCode” in Berlin.

Thursday, 25.03.2021

17:00 – 18.30h

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Growing Up in Science – Berlin with Prof. Dr. Yee Lee Shing

We invite everyone to another episode of our “Growing Up in Science – Berlin” series: Next up, we will hear from Yee Lee Shing. She is a developmental psychologist who is working on the development and underlying neural mechanisms of cognitive processes in the brain. Currently, she is working as professor and PI of the Lifespan Cognitive and Brain Development Lab at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.

Thursday, 28.01.2021

17:00 – 18.30h

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Growing Up in Science – Berlin with Prof. Dr. Christoph Harms

We invite everyone to another episode of our “Growing Up in Science – Berlin” series: Next up, we will hear from Christoph Harms. He is a medical doctor who is working on molecular stroke research. Currently, he is a professor at the Centre for Stroke Research Berlin at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin.