Online portal: Career support for postdocs

24 November 2020

Online portal: Career support for postdocs
The Service Center Research has set up a new online portal to help postdocs find
their way through the maze of third-party funding. The focus is on questions like:
How do I write a good grant application? When do I submit which application for
third-party funding? Should I still aim for a junior research group leadership or alre-
ady a tenure-track professorship? Experienced research advisors are available by e-
mail and in person. The German-English website is intended for Humboldtians as
well as for international scientists who would like to do research at the HU. The por-
tal goes online today.

Go to the Postdoc Portal

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Research & Teaching

Open Access Prize: application possible until 6 December

The Open Access Prize, which is being awarded by the HU for the first time, honors
outstanding achievements by members of the university in the field of Open Access.
The prize is intended to encourage more Open Access publications and make the to-
pic more visible overall. The prize is endowed with 5,000 euros and is intended to
encourage the award winners to commit themselves to further projects in this area.

For more information and to apply for the Open Access Prize, please visit the Uni-
versity Library's website

Podcast "Humboldt hören": About the personality of our nerve cells

Neuroscientist and theorist Susanne Schreiber talks about the properties of the hu-
man nervous system in the latest podcast. During a walk in the Volkspark Friedrichs-
hain with radio journalist Cora Knoblauch, she explains why biology is inconceiva-
ble without mathematics, what insights she draws from mathematical models and re-
ports on her work in the German Ethics Council, of which she has been deputy chair
since May 2020.

Listen to the podcast on Apple Podcast and Spotify

Interview: "'Islamic religious education studies' is a German
invention"

This is what Tuba Isik, the new professor at the Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology,
says. The specialist for Islamic religious education studies and practical theology
speaks in an interview about the new course of studies, interreligious learning and
the importance of music.

Read the interview with Tuba Isik at hu-berlin

Administration & Service

Successful re-election: President confirmed in office

With 30 yes-votes, 18 no-votes and five invalid votes, Sabine Kunst was confirmed
in office as president by the Council on November 17 and re-elected for another five
years. Her second term of office begins in May 2021 and her aim is to drive forward

the development of the three campuses into interdisciplinary research landscapes, the
digitization of teaching and administration, and the further opening of the university
to society, as well as to strengthen internal cohesion.

Read more about the election at hu-berlin.de

New subway station: Science on the platform edge

669 terms, 258 pictorial elements, four mader hair brushes, 750 ml of the best ink, at
least 21.6 meters of the finest Italian paper and several intensive discussions with
scientists were necessary for the design of the six hidden object pictures, which are
the core of the exhibition of the Humboldt-Universität in the new station of the U5
"Unter den Linden". The theme is the influence of mankind on nature in the geologi-
cal age of the Anthropocene - verbally and graphically. The pictures of the Berlin
graphic artist Nele Brönner visualize impressively the dramatic interactions. On De-
cember 4, the BVG will start operating in the new station, and the exhibition can be
visited.

"WLAN celebration": What always makes you think about
Christmas?

This year, Christmas parties have to be cancelled due to corona. As a small substitu-
te, Humboldt-Uni and the campus radio station CouchFM will stream a joint
"WLAN party" on 15 December, 5 to 6 pm. The organisation team asks for your sup-
port and your answer to the question: What makes you think about Christmas again
and again?

Please write briefly to veranstaltungen@hu-berlin.de

Further details will follow in the newsletter of 8 December.

Turn of the year: Order greeting cards and calendars via Print on
Demand

Select, order, send: Together with the in-house print shop, the Communications de-
partment offers the facilities greeting cards for selection at the turn of the year. You
select your motif and can place an order directly with the in-house print shop using
the form. Print orders for the New Year's Post are accepted until December 10. The
2021 annual calendar can also be ordered from the in-house print shop. It is available
in A3 format, 1x folded.

View greeting card motifs and calaendar and order on the Intranet

"Drive in": The in-house print shop can also be reached in pandemic
times

Currently, the colleagues of the in-house print shop can be contacted online or by
phone. On-site consultation is also possible by appointment, subject to compliance
with hygiene regulations. Small prints are issued contactlessly via the "Drive-In"
through the window. Larger parcels will be sent with the in-house mail.

Video: "Friday after one..." - News from the university

On "Friday after one..." the university management provides weekly information on
current topics. In the current episode, HU President Sabine Kunst comments on her
re-election.

Watch the video on the intranet

#Coronatest: Social media campaign to sensitize young people

The danger posed by Covid-19 is still underestimated by young people. The univer-
sities organized in the LKRP jointly initiated the social media campaign #coronatest
in view of the current infection incidence, especially among young people. In the
campaign, scientists* address the myths surrounding Corona. For example, physicist
and biologist Dirk Brockmann dealt with the claim: "Contact restriction is super-
fluous. I only meet with my friend inside".

Watch the campaign on the Instagram channel of HU

New offerings in continuing vocational education and training

The Professional Development Department constantly updates its program. On Tues-
day, December 1, for example, there will be an introduction to image rights. On De-
cember 10, the Family Office offers the webinar "Nursing and Career - Tips and
Theses, how the daily balancing act can be done better". Those interested in langua-
ges can improve their Spanish skills from January 7, 2021.

These and further offers of the vocational further training in the Intranet

Break: University Library remains closed "over the years"

All locations of the University Library are closed from December 24 to January 3,
2021. Therefore the corona-related limited services of the University Library are not
available during this time.

Committees & Representations

By mail: Committee elections on January 12, 2021 - Vote by mail alrea-
dy now

On January 12, 2021, committee elections will take place at Humboldt University. In
view of the corona pandemic, the Central Election Board (ZWV) points out the pos-
sibility of voting by postal vote. Postal voting documents can already be requested
from the local election committee responsible.

Further information on the elections and on requesting the postal ballot papers can
be found at

humboldt gemeinsam

Object management: Retrieve all data on a building

The introduction of the SAP S/4HANA system on January 4, 2021 will also affect
commercial property management and space management. In future, all occupancy
and administrative data of the areas used by the HU will be recorded in the new sys-
tem and structured accordingly according to location, business entity and property.
This means that all the data on a building can be quickly retrieved in the interaction
of all systems.

Read more about advantages and innovations in property management

Webcasts: Customer and supplier processes from 2021 and the new ac-
count assignment model in SAP

Christine Krug, project manager accounting in the program humboldt gemeinsam,
explains in a Webcast the process changes, which are pending by the introduction of

double-entry bookkeeping in the next year.

Colleagues who create purchase requisitions (HU requisitions) or account assign-
ment specifications (payment requests) for invoices can also gain an insight into the
new account assignment model in another webcast.

Join the "SAP: Help & Documentation" workspace on the intranet to watch the
videos

Berlin University Alliance

Change: Sabine Kunst is spokeswoman of the Berlin University
Alliance

Since November, Sabine Kunst has been the spokesperson of the BUA for two years,
succeeding Günter M. Ziegler, the President of Freie Universität, in this position on
a rotational basis. She would like to advance the governance of the BUA and relieve
the cooperation of researchers from administrative hurdles: the jointly conducted
top-level research should be able to produce results effectively and without loss of
time.

Learn more about the BUA

Strong Research Together: One Year of the Berlin University Alliance
Network of Excellence

The BUA celebrated its first year of existence with a zoom press conference and took
stock: a total of more than 560 scientists were brought together for over 130 joint re-
search projects financed by the BUA. In the first year, special attention was paid to
networking in the area of promoting young researchers: the joint qualification pro-
gram Berlin Graduate Support Program was launched and is open to all doctoral stu-
dents of the alliance partners.

View BUA's annual review

Read full press release on BUA

Permanent task: Quality assurance in research

"There are no ready-made solutions for quality assurance in research," says the so-

ciologist of science Martin Reinhart. In an interview, he explains how the Berlin
University Alliance wants to ensure and develop research quality. The Center for
Open and Responsible Research - CORe for short - will play an important role in
this process, where the alliance partners will develop support services and guideli-
nes.

Read the interview in the Humboldt Portal

Personalia

Humboldt Lab: Johanna Stapelfeldt is the new curator

Johanna Stapelfeldt is the new face in the Humboldt Lab, for which she will accom-
pany and develop the opening exhibition as curator. The cultural studies graduate has
been working in this field since 2014 and has contributed to two special exhibitions
for the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden, among others. Most recently, she
worked at the exhibition office Die Exponauten (Berlin) as a curatorial and scientific
assistant.

Learn more about the Humboldt Lab

High office: Georg Nolte is judge in The Hague

Georg Nolte was elected judge at the International Court of Justice in The Hague on
November 12 in New York. Georg Nolte has been Professor of Public Law and In-
ternational Law at the Law Faculty of HU since 2008. A total of five judges were
elected to the International Court of Justice for a term of nine years beginning on Fe-
bruary 6, 2021.

Award: Joachim Sauer receives the Bunsen commemorative coin

The chemist Joachim Sauer was awarded the Bunsen commemorative coin 2020 by
the German Bunsen Society for Physical Chemistry "in recognition of his fundamen-
tal work on the theory of chemical reactivity on catalysts as well as adsorption
phenomena on zeolites and on the storage of gases in adsorption material". The Bun-
sen commemorative coin has been awarded since 1908 to "personalities who have
promoted the aims of physical chemistry in an outstanding manner through scientific
and practical achievements".

Read more news about Personalia in the Humboldt Portal

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