HeRA Lunch - Have lunch and educate yourself
Bring your lunch and educate yourself! Please join us for the Heine Research Academies lunch talks. Invited speakers are introducing information on research careers, HHU-internal funding programmes for research and teaching, HHU facilities supporting your research or other helpful information on "How to get around at HHU“. How it works? Bring your sandwiches, foster your knowledge and get into casual conservation with the referee, your peers and colleagues afterwards - once a month at noon time.
Event information
| Target audience | Doctoral and postdoctoral researchers of HHU |
| Date and Time | as announced with the event (see below) |
| Meeting room | Online via Webex (Please use registration link) |
| Special Remarks | Feel free to have lunch while listening to the talk! |
| Contact | juno (at) hhu.de |
Upcoming HeRA Lunch Sessions:
Researcher, Lecturer, Scientific Manager: Career Paths in Academia
You are a postdoc at HHU, enjoy working in an academic environment, and can imagine pursuing a career in academia – but a professorship is not necessarily your goal?
Take advantage of our informal lunch sessions to get an initial impression of various academic career paths beyond the professorship and exchange ideas with other interested participants. The talks will be held in English.
Experience Report "Researcher"
Guest: Dr. Jochen Hecht
Head of Central Laboratory „Genomics & Transcriptomics Laboratory (GTL)“, Biologisch-Medizinisches Forschungszentrum (BMFZ)
Wednesday, 19. November 2025: 12:30 pm -1:30 pm (online)
Experience Report "Lecturer" (in German)
Guest: Dr. Katrin auf der Lake
Institut für Germanistik - Abteilung III: Deutsche Sprache und Literatur des Mittelalters
Thursday, 4. December 2025: 12:30 pm -1:30 pm (online)
Experience Report "Scientific Manager"
Guest: Dr. Marcel Buchholzer
Project Coordination „Healthy Crops“, Institute of Molecular Physiology
Wednesday, 10. December 2025: 12:30 pm -1:30 pm (online)
22.10.2025
Racism in and at Universities
Together with the Contact Office for cases of discrimination and abuse of power the next HeRA Lunch will address the issue of racism in the academic system.
The event will take place on October 22 2025 from 12 am to 1 pm in English
Registration
"The practice of racism does not depend on white people's good or bad feelings or intentions toward Black people and people of colour.
Racism is a system that continuously places whiteness at the center...." (Kuria 2015,19)
Racism is a daily occurrence for students of color at German universities. Through my job at the university, I have come into contact with many students from different disciplines and in a wide variety of life situations who are discriminated against by racism at universities.
This event is about their experiences and strategies in relation to racism in the German higher education system.
Speaker:
Dr. rer medic Emily Ngubia Kessé is a researcher in the field of gender studies with an academic background in neuroscience. She holds a bachelor's degree in physics, a master's degree in neuroscience (brain research), and a doctorate in medical science from Charité Universitätsmedizin, Humboldt University of Berlin, Institute for the History, Theory, and Ethics of Medicine.
Her research focuses on racism and sexism, power relations, and knowledge creation—in particular, the mechanisms of racist oppression in the German education system.