Postdoc Phase

The University of Hamburg offers doctoral graduates a range of attractive career paths in research, teaching, and research management. The guiding principles of our appointment and career policies are: fostering, advancing, transferring and recruiting, fostering, retaining.

This is also reflected in our employment models and range of services.

In addition, with the Hamburg declaration on careers in academia (PDF) we are modernizing academic employment conditions and qualification routes for early career researchers and developing new career paths.

Hamburg Research Academy

Podiumsdiskussion beim International Researcher Day

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Do you need more information about the postdoc phase, for example, about funding, or stays abroad, or mobility? Do you want to network with other postdoctoral researchers or take part in workshops, e.g., for career planning? The Hamburg Research Academy is a cross-university institution for early career researchers and their academic supervisors in Hamburg, and provides comprehensive advice, qualifications, and networking services.

Hamburg Research Academy

HR Development

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The University of Hamburg’s HR Development fosters your professional development, whether you want to advance in your current position or strive for a different one.

HR Development

Research funding for early career researchers

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Support for early career researchers at the University of Hamburg offers support and advice when you apply for external funding and throughout the doctoral and postdoctoral phases. Staff members can also help when you apply for travel expense subsidies.

Research funding for early career researchers

Welcome Service

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Are you coming to Hamburg from abroad to do your postdoctoral studies at the University of Hamburg? The University of Hamburg Welcome Service provides support for international researchers and doctoral researchers staying at the University for at least one month.

Welcome Service