Courses & Events for PhDs
Dr. Ferdinand Esser, MBA
Scientific Coordinator of Early Career Researchers (doctoral and postdoctoral researchers) of the ICBM
Coordination of the PhD program 'Environmental Sciences and Biodiversity' and of ICBM-Alumni network
Managing director of the Graduate School Science, Medicine and Technology (OLTECH)
Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg
Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM)
Carl-von-Ossietzky-Str. 9-11
26129 Oldenburg, GERMANY
Phone: +49 (0)441 / 798-3171
Office: W15 0-031
E-mail:
Courses & Events for PhDs
2025
| Date | Event | Location |
| 15.01.2025 | Workshop „Profile building, networking and career planning for doctoral candidates at the ICBM’ Time: 9 am - 6 pm | ICBM Wilhelmshaven ((Room will be announced)) |
In the doctoral and postdoctoral phase, you will be challenged by many demanding tasks. You will be involved in research and often also teaching, while at the same time acquiring a wide range of qualifications for future tasks in science, industry and society. The ICBM offers a wide range of support services to help you in your current work and in your further qualification.
2024
| Date | Event | Place/Location |
| every first thursday | "Coffee break" with PhD representativesTime: 16:00 | online meeting via BigBlueButton |
| 23.02.2024 | Career insights online Time: 14:00 - 15:30 | online meeting via BigBlueButton |
| 19.04.2024 | Career insightsonline Time: 14:00 - 15:30 | online meeting via BigBlueButton |
| 29.05.2024 | Science Slam 2024 – 12. Oldenburger Science Slam im Jubiläumsjahr der Universität | Aula der Universität |
| 07.06.2024 | Career insightsonline Time:14:00 - 15:30 | online meeting via BigBlueButton |
| 29.08.2024 | 7th PhD Day 2024 Time: 8:45 am till 5:30 pm | at the ICBM-Wilhelmshaven site |
| 10.09.2024 - 11.09.2024 | Oldenburger Klimatage / Symposium on “Climate, People and the Ocean” 10.09.2024 – 11.09.2024 (Programme) | at University Oldenburg |
| 13.09.2024 | Career insights online Time: 14:00 - 15:30 | online meeting via BigBlueButton |
| 16.09.2024 - 20.09.2024 | ICYMARE - International Conference for Young MArine REsearchers | Bremen, tba |
| 08.11.2024 | Career insights online Time: 14:00 - 15:30 | online meeting via BigBlueButton |
| 20.11.2024 | UOL PhD-Day 2024 - „Generative AI in the doctorate" Time: 10 am – 6 pm | online meeting via BigBlueButton |
2023
| Date | Event | Place/Location |
| every first thursday | "Coffee break" with PhD representativesTime: 16:00 | online meeting via BigBlueButton |
| 10.03.2023 | Career insights online with Dr Anne-Christin Schulz (Scientific employee at Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute) and Dr David Probandt (Service provider and technology developer for biopharmaceuticals) Time : 14:00 - 15:30 | online meeting via Zoom or Webex |
| 04.04.2023 | 6th ICBM Postgraduate Symposium - Your research in a bigger-picture! Registration: https://uol.de/icbm-postgraduate-symposium-2023/registration | Venue: W32 Experimental Lecture Hall, Wechloy Campus, Oldenburg |
| 21.04.2023 | Career insights online with Dr Janne Rohe (Project Manager at the International Centre for Marine Conservation at WWF Germany) and Dr Caroline Coch (Climate Science Communications Specialist at the Royal Meteorological Society) Time: 14:00 - 15:30 | online meeting via Zoom or Webex |
| 06.06.2023 | Doing a PhD - yes or no? Workshop on decision-making for students and graduates of the ICBM | TBA |
| 23.06.2023 | Career insights online with Dr Tim Kalvelage (Science Reporter and photographer) Time: 14:00 - 14:45 | online meeting via Zoom or Webex |
| 18.09.-22.09.2023 | ICYMARE- International Conference for Young MArine REsearchers > To the news article > ICYMARE Aftermovie | Oldenburg, ICBM |
| 29.11.2023 | UOL doctoral candidates day Time: 14:00 - 17:30 | Library Auditorium (BIS hall) |
| 29.11.2023 | Science Slam Time: from 19:00 | TBA |
2022
| Date | Event | Place/Location |
| monthly | ICBM PhDs: Connected - as online PhD colloquium The overall idea of ICBM PhDs: Connected is to provide a platform for 15 min PhD project presentations, but also to talk about organisational topics in small breakout groups, and to stay in touch in these times of limited physical presence. Date: monthly; Thuesday`s 2022: 20/01, 17/02, 17/03, 21/04, 17/06Time: 16:15 - 18:00 | online meeting via BigBlueButton |
| 25.02.2022 | Career insights online with Dr Judith Zimmermann (Labteam leader "Microbiology" at BASF SE) and Dr Jannes Vagts (Eisenführ Speiser) Time: 14:00 - 15:30 | online meeting via Zoom or Webex |
| 22.04.2022 | Career insights online with Dr Mithra Hajati (Expert on ground water Lower Saxony Competence Center for Climate Change) and Dr Valeria Bers (Head of the Watt Welten Visitor Center Norderney) Time : 14:00 - 15:30 | online meeting via Zoom or Webex |
| 24.06.2022 | Career insights online with Dr Paula Senff , Dr Stephanie Helber (Senff and Helber published together the children Book "The Heroes of the Underwater Forest") and Dr Julia Schnetzer (Scientific coordinator of the international exhibition on "Ocean Plastics Lab") Time : 14:00 - 15:00 | online meeting via Zoom or Webex |
| every first thursday | "Coffee break" with PhD representatives Time: 16:00 | online meeting via BigBlueButton |
| 13.-16.09.2022 | ICYMARE - International Conference for Young MArine REsearchers | Bremerhaven |
| 02.12.2022 | Career insights online with Dr Matthias Winkel (Scientific assistant at the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment) Time: 14:00 - 15:00 | online meeting via Zoom or Webex |
2021
| Date | Event | Place/Location |
| 10.02. + 12.01.2021 | SFB Roseobacter Status Seminar Time: 13:00 - 16:00 | online |
| 15.01.2021 | EcoMol Status Seminar Time: 09:00 - 16:30 | online meeting via BigBlueButton |
| 21.01.2021 | ICBM PhDs: Connected - as online PhD colloquium The overall idea of ICBM PhDs : Connected is to provide a platform for 15 min PhD project presentations, but also to talk about organisational topics in small breakout groups, and to stay in touch in these times of limited physical presence. Date: monthly; Thuesday`s 2021: 21/01, 18/02, 18/03, 15/04, 20/05, 17/06, 15/07; Time: 16:15 - 18:00 | online meeting via BigBlueButton |
| 22.01.2021 | Career insights online with Dr Bevis Fedder (Adviser for Marine Environmental Protection and Pollution Response) and Dr Laura Verbeek (German Museum Munich in an EU-Project and research assistant) Time: 14:00 - 15:30 | online meeting via Zoom or Webex |
| 26.01. + 29.01.2021 | Mentoring programme 2020/21 - Workshop: Mentoring relationship; Mentor found? Time: 09:00 - 12:00 | online meeting via BigBlueButton |
| every first thursday | "Coffee break" with PhD representatives Time: 16:00 | online meeting via BigBlueButton |
| 26.02.2021 | Career insights online with Dr Nadine Rippert (Executive Assistant for Appointment Management President's Office) and Dr TanjaMichler-Cieluch(Representative Graduate Academy) Time : 14:00 - 15:30 | online meeting via Zoom or Webex |
| 03.03.2021 | JACOBS CAREER FAIR Time: 12:00 - 18:00 | Jacobs University Bremen |
| 26.03.2021 | Career insights online with Dr. Laura Wolter (PostDoc at Bioproduction Research Institute) and Dr Chia-I Huang (Pfizer and AstraZeneca) Time: 14:00 - 15:30 | online meeting via Zoom or Webex |
| 15.04.2021 | Workshop/impulse talk: "Online presentation skills for scientists" Time: 16:15 | online |
| 30.04.2021 | Career insights online with Dr Ronja Paffrath (Researchassistant in the Biocides department Federal Environment Agency) and Dr Markus Kayser(Project scientist at the Lindenberg Meteorological Observatory) Time: 14:00 - 15:30 | online meeting via Zoom or Webex |
| 28.05.2021 | Mentoring programme: 2020/21 1/2-day workshop: Half year meeting Time: 09:00 - 17:00 | Oldenburg |
| 04.06.2021 | Career insights online with Dr Annika Mackensen (advisor for sustainable fisheries and aquaculture at the German Society for International Cooperation) and Dr Pelin Yilmaz (Advisor at b.experts GmbH and b.value AG) Time: 14:00 - 15:30 | online meeting via Zoom or Webex |
| 25.06.2021 | Career insights online with Dr Patricia Slabon(Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency of Germany) and Dr Daniel Thewes(University of Hamburg at the Department of Informatics) Time : 14:00 - 15:30 | online meeting via Zoom or Webex |
| 05.07. + 12.07.2021 | Online Workshop: "PhD - and then? Profile building for the labour market" for PhD students of the Integrated Research Training Group of the CRC Roseobacter Time: 09:00 - 16:00 | online |
| 22.09. - 24.09.2021 | ICYMARE - International Conference for Young Marine REsearchers | Humboldt University |
| 24.09.2021 | Career insights online with Dr Marten Fischer (Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency of Germany in a Marine chemistry lab) and Dr Frank Schreiber (Member of the research staff at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing in Berlin) Time: 14:00 - 15:30 | online meeting via Zoom or Webex |
| 27.10. + 28.10.2021 | Mentoring programme: 2020/21 2-day workshop: Networking strategies and creative ways for career strategies - Closing symposium with Mentors Time: 09:00 - 17:00 | Oldenburg |
| 17.11.2021 | UOL PhD-Days Time: 09:00 - 16:00 | online meeting via BigBlueButton |
| 10.12.2021 | Career insights online with Dr Judith Zimmermann (Labteam leader "Microbiology" at BASF SE) and Dr Jannes Vagts (Eisenführ Speiser) Time: 14:00 - 15:30 | online meeting via Zoom or Webex |
2020
| Date | Event | Place/Location |
| 05. + 06. + 08.10.2020 | Mentoring programme 2020/21 - 1,5-day Kick-off! Workshop / Methods and strategies of finding the personal career direction, Mentoring competences, Methods and strategies finding a mentor | online workshop via BigBlueButton |
| 26.08.2020 - 27.08.2020 | ICYMARE conference for young marine researchers | virtual sessions |
| 17.07.2020 | ICBM PhDs: Connected The overall idea of ICBM PhDs: Connected is to provide a platform for 15 min PhD project presentations, but also to talk about organisational topics in small breakout groups, and to stay in touch in these times of limited physical presence. Other dates for 2020: Thuesday`s: 16.07. / 20.08. / 17.09. / 15.10. / 19.11. / 17.12.2020 | online PhD colloquium |
| 01.07.2020 - 03.07.2020 | How to publish in peer-reviewed journals" (TRESS&TRESS) | online |
| 19.06.2020 | Career insights online - of ICBM Alumni | online |
| 16.05.2020 | 4th Graduate Symposium 'Career Paths of Marine and Climate Scientists' 2020 cancelled due to corona pandemic | Bremen |
| 02.04.2020 | 5th ICBM PhD Day, Programme cancelled due to corona pandemic | Oldenburg |
| 16.03.2020 - 17.03.2020 | SFB Roseobacter Status Seminar cancelled due to corona pandemic | Braunschweig |
| 04.03.2020 | Jacobs Career Fair 2020 PROGRAMME & CATALOGUE, cancelled due to corona pandemic | Bremen |
2019
| Date | Event | Place/Location |
| 14.11.2019 - 15.11.2019 | 3rd EcoMol Status Seminar | Etelsen |
| 27.11.2019 - 28.11.2019 | 2nd SFB Roseobacter PhD-Workshop "Steps to a collaborative research project" | Farge, Bremen |
| 24.09.2019 - 27.09.2019 | ICYMARE conference for young marine researchers | Bremen |
| 28.08.2019 - 30.08.2019 | Marine Microbiota Ecology, Interactions and Systems Biology - International Symposium of the Collaborative Research Centre Roseobacter | Oldenburg |
| 22.05.2019 - 23.05.2019 | 2nd EcoMol PhD Workshop "State of your research in the RTG EcoMol - your Scientific Career and what comes next?" | Neuharlingersiel |
| 16.05.2019 | 4th Career Paths in Marine Sciences - Catching the right WAYve, Programme | Oldenburg |
| 09.03.2019 | 4thICBM PhD Day, Programme | Oldenburg |
| 27.02.2019 | Jacobs Career Fair 2019 PROGRAMME & CATALOGUE | Bremen |
2018
| Date | Event | Place/Location |
| 29.11.2018 | Fireside chat / Fireside chat: with Dr Maren Zark; Landeskriminalamt (LKA) Bremen / State Office of Criminal Investigation | ICBM, OL |
| 16.10.2018 - 18.10.2018 | SFB Roseobacter PhD-Workshop at "Spiekeroog": Introduction, research topics and network in Roseobacter | Spiekeroog |
| 11.09.2018 - 14.09.2018 | YOUMARES 9 "The Oceans: Our research, Our Future" | Oldenburg |
| 25.05.2018 | 3rd Graduate Symposium "Career Path of Marine and Climate Scientists" 2018 | Bremen, HDW |
| 22.03.2018 | 3rd ICBM PhD Day, Programme | ICBM, Wilhelmshaven |
| 28.02.2018 | Jacobs Career Fair 2018 PROGRAMME & CATALOGUE | Bremen |
2017
| Date | Event | Place/Location |
|---|---|---|
| 09.10.2017 | 2nd ICBM PhD Day, Programme | ICBM, Oldenburg |
| 13.09.2017 - 15.09.2017 | YOUMARES 8 "Ocean across boundaries: Learning from each other | Kiel |
| 08.06.2017 | ICBM-Career Day"Re-Search your future - Sea what comes next" at the 'World Oceans Day | Oldenburg |
| 09.05.2017 | Visit of Wageningen University international PhD group | Oldenburg |
| 24.04.2017 | Fireside chat"Scientific Management, DFG" | Oldenburg |
| 23.03.2017 | 1st ICBM PhD Day, Programme | ICBM, Wilhelmshaven |
| 22.02.2017 | Jacobs Career Fair 2017 PROGRAMME & CATALOGUE | Bremen |
2016
| Date | Event | Place/Location |
|---|---|---|
| 13.10.2016 - 15.10.2016 | PhD-Workshop "State of your research in the CRC Roseobacter - your Scientific Career and what comes next? / And some additional research funding opportunities" | Neuwerk |
| 11.09.2016 - 13.09.2016 | YOUMARES 7 "People and the 7 Seas - Interaction and Innovation" | Hamburg |
| 27.05.2016 | 2nd Graduate Symposium"Career Path in Marine and Climate Reserach", programme | Bremen, HDW |
| 24.02.2016 | Jacobs Career Fair 2016 | Bremen |
2015
| Date | Event | Place/Location |
|---|---|---|
| 16.10.2015 | ICBM-Career Day"Career Paths in Marine Sciences - What(t) after that ?!" | Oldenburg |
| 16.09.2015 - 18.09.2015 | YOUMARES 6 "A Journey into the blue - Ocean Reserach and Innovation" | Bremen |
| 01.06.2015 - 03.06.2015 | Site Visit Hamburg "Young scientists meet industry, enterprises, scientific management and institutes" | Hamburg |
| 23.03.2015 | Fireside chat"Science management" | Oldenburg |
2014
| Date | Event | Place/Location |
|---|---|---|
| 10.09.2014 - 12.09.2014 | YOUMARES 5 "Opportunities and Solutions - Reserch for our changing Oceans" | Stralsund |
| 25.06.2014 - 27.06.2014 | PhD Workshop "My contribution to the CRC Roseobacter - my Scientific Network" | Spiekeroog |
| 23.05.2014 | 1st Graduate Symposium"Career Path in Marine and Climate Sciences", programme | Bremen, HDW |
2013 + 2012
| Date | Event | Place/Location |
|---|---|---|
| 11.09.2013 - 13.09.2013 | YOUMARES 4 "From coast to deep sea: multiscale approaches to marine sciences" Flyer | Oldenburg |
| 03.11.2012 | ICBM-Career Day"Career ways in marine science", programme, conference book | Oldenburg |