Early Career Researchers

ELEMENTS has the ambition to provide an ideal environment for educating and supporting young scientists by enabling them to progress scientifically, and by refining their skills while nurturing their talents.

We facilitate excellent research and prepare early career researchers for successful professional careers to the benefit of society. Our mission is to:

We partner with various research academies:

GRADE

Goethe Research Academy for Early Career Researchers GRADE is the central support unit for the personal and professional development of early-career researchers in Frankfurt.

HGS-HIRe

The Helmholtz Graduate School for Hadron and Ion Research HGS-HIRe for FAIR is a joint endeavour of the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, the universities at Darmstadt, Frankfurt, Giessen, Heidelberg and Mainz together with FIAS to promote and support structured PhD education for research associated with GSI and FAIR.

Ingenium

Ingenium – Young Researchers at TU Darmstadt is the umbrella organisation for promoting early career researchers in Darmstadt. Ingenium promotes and qualifies early career researchers for both academic and non-academic careers.

JQYA

The Johanna Quandt Young Academy at Goethe (JQYA) is a platform for interdisciplinary discourse among outstanding early career researchers. The academy is tailored to the needs of early-career researchers at the beginning of their scientific independence and during their professional qualification.

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