Support of early-career researchers

Undergraduates may find support particularly at the Einstein Center of Catalysis (EC²)/ BIG-NSE. It supports PhD education by recruiting and supporting excellent PhD students from all over the world. The mission of the graduate school is to overcome the frontiers of classical disciplines in catalysis.

BIG-NSE is an international graduate school founded in 2007 at the Technische Universität Berlin. From 2019, within UniSysCat, the BIG-NSE has been further developed under the umbrella of the Einstein Center of Catalysis (EC²), funded by the Einstein Foundation Berlin. The EC² is dedicated to strengthening modern catalysis research by bundling the rich expertise in the Berlin region and generating novel synergies.

For postgraduate researchers, we developed strategies of staff recruitment and development, including internationally competitive tenure options. UniSysCat promotes career development after the PhD degree by

• one-year appointments awarded to outstanding PhD students after finishing their PhD as an opportunity to write and submit a proposal for a postdoctoral stay abroad.
• attracting outstanding young scientists from outside for junior research group leader positions.
• the newly founded Chemical Invention Factory (CIF) – The John Warner Center for Start-ups in Green Chemistry with the prime objective to enable young graduates of UniSysCat and its partners to reach the first start-up phase.