The New Campus Seminar Communication Award
The Campus Seminar Series
Two talks and two different topics combined: This is the Campus Seminar at the Max Planck Campus in Göttingen. Since autumn 2018, this series has been running in its current form and is jointly organized by Junior Faculty members of the MPI for Biophysical Chemistry (now MPI for Multidisciplary Sciences, MPI-NAT)) and the MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS). Since January 2022, it is jointly organized by MPI-NAT and MPI-DS and thus unites both the MPI-NAT City- and Fassberg Campus. The event is scheduled on Wednesday’s from 11 pm till noon and will take place completely online. The talks are typically chosen in a way that two different areas of research are represented and address a broad scientific audience. Each talk lasts 20 minutes, after which there is time for a 10-minute discussion.
The Campus Seminar Communication Award
Since mid-September 2019, there has been an innovation at the Campus Seminar: Two prizes will be awarded every year for the best talks (participation is optional). One prize will go to a PhD student and one to a postdoc. “We will award the prize for the best talk and very good science communication skills. Everyone is encouraged to participate to tell us about their science”, explains Stefan Glöggler, who is one of the Campus Seminar’s organizers. Each prize is endowed with 1000 euros donated by the Manfred Eigen Foundation. The prize winners are selected in a peer review process in which the presenters of the campus seminar voted for most comprehensive talks. The prizes will be awarded in summer of the respective year.
Campus seminar communication prize 2022
Marcel Levien of the research group Electron-Spin Resonance Spectroscopy and Constanze Depp of the Department of Neurogenetics were awarded the third campus seminar communication prize. Congratulations!
Campus seminar communication prize 2021
We are happy to congratulate the awardees of the second campus seminar communication prize 2021: Many congratulations go to Tomasso Cavazza of the Department of Meiosis and to Fabian Hecker of the research group Electron-Spin Resonance Spectroscopy at MPI-NAT.
Campus seminar communication prize 2019/2020
The campus seminar goes into the summer break and at the same time we are happy to congratulate the awardees of the first campus seminar communication prize 2019/2020: Mirna Kramar of the Karen Alim group at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization and Mark Bates of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (now employed at the Institut für Nanophysik (formerly Laser Laboratorium Göttingen)
The Campus Seminar Series in a nutshell
How can I participate?
There are two ways to participate: (1) Each department, research group, or emeritus group may nominate one speaker per year. This starting place is guaranteed. An informal e-mail by the PI to the organizers (campusseminar@mpinat.mpg.de) is sufficient. They will contact the nominee directly with further information. (2) In addition, all PhD students or postdocs may apply themselves. It is recommended that you consult with your PI about the content before you submit your application.
The following must be submitted in order to be accepted to the competition:
- An abstract explaining the applicants’ own scientific work to a broad readership (half a page maximum)
Three members of the Junior Faculty as well as the PhD & Postdoc Community will rank the abstracts and contact the speakers to enter the competition.
We would like to note that participation for the award is completely optional, so please indicate with your abstract submission if you would like to be considered.
How does the competition work?
Your talk will be ranked by PhD students and postdocs as well as Junior Faculty members, who are not part of your group or department. At this point, we would also like to encourage each group/department to nominate judges. If there is a tie of points at the end of the year, the Junior Faculty and the PhD & Postdoc Community will decide on the winner based on the submitted abstract.
Please send your abstracts to (campusseminar@mpinat.mpg.de)