GRADE Sustain

Lecture Series 'Career'

You’ve earned your PhD! What comes next?

The GRADE Center Sustain organizes a series of visits and events for learning about different career options in the broad field of sustainability in- and outside academia. Occupational fields in sustainable corporate governance, research institutions, ministries, Start-Ups, NGOs, organizations for wildlife conservation, the energy sector or fields inside politics and governance are some examples for the various focuses.

Why are we organizing such events?

  

Where and how are these events taking place?

Which one is the right career for me? What kind of different options are there?

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If possible, we will visit companies and institutions around Frankfurt, in order to get an impression of daily work there.

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Dr. Stefanie Schwerdtfeger - nachhaltige urbane Mobilität in Hessen!

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23.10.2023 | 16 Uhr | online

Dr. Stefanie Schwerdtfeger hat in Göttingen und Frankfurt am Main Geographie studiert. Nach ihrem Masterabschluss hat sie eine Promotion in der humangeographischen Mobilitätsforschung am Lehrstuhl von Prof. Dr. Martin Lanzendorf an der Goethe-Universität begonnen.

Nach der Promotion hat Stefanie als Postdoktorandin gearbeitet und sich der transdisziplinären Forschung gewidmet. In dieser Zeit hat sie verschiedene Reallabor-Projekte geleitet, an denen neben Wissenschaft auch Planungspraxis und Kommunalverwaltung beteiligt waren. Seit März 2021 leitet Stefanie Schwerdtfeger das Themenfeld Mobilität bei der Hessen Trade & Invest GmbH sowie das dort angesiedelte Fachzentrum „Nachhaltige Mobilitätsplanung Hessen – für Kreis und Kommune“.

Stefanie Schwerdtfeger wird darüber sprechen, wie sie den Wechsel von der Wissenschaft in die Praxis erlebt hat und welche Erfahrungen sie in ihrer neuen Tätigkeit zwischen Umsetzungspraxis und Verkehrspolitik auf kommunaler, Landes-, Bundes- und EU-Ebene sammeln konnte. Wer sich für einen Wechsel von der Wissenschaft in einen politiknahen Berufszweig interessiert – egal aus welchem Fachbereich, wird in dem Gespräch eine Ansprechpartnerin für alle Fragen rund um das Thema finden.

www.htai.de / www.mobilitaetsplanung-hessen.de

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Dr. Lisa Zimmermann – Science Communication Officer at Food Packaging Forum Foundation

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12. July 2023 | 16:00 | online

Lisa Zimmermann studied biological sciences with a focus on ecotoxicology at the University of Konstanz. After working as a project manager at Oro Verde – Tropical Forest Foundation in Germany and Guatemala and a couple of positions outside science and biology, she turned to research again. She did her PhD as part of the inter- and transdisciplinary project PlastX based at the Institute for Social-Ecological Research in Frankfurt am Main and with the aim to explore the role of plastics in our society and their impacts on the environment. In her laboratory work in the working group of Aquatic Ecotoxicity at Goethe University, she focused on the chemical composition and toxicity of plastic products. The work in PlastX paved her way to join the Food Packaging Forum (FPF) Foundation located in Zürich, Switzerland, two years ago. Through scientific research and science communication, Lisa Zimmermann supports the organization’s goal to enable stakeholders to make better decisions contributing to the protection of human and environmental health.

FPF shares the latest science on chemicals in food contact materials and the environmental impacts of food packaging. To this end, the organization develops and provides science-based and balanced information and tools, and establishes dialogue and cooperation of experts in academia, civil society, industry, regulatory authorities, and media.

If you want to know more about the work in a small independent foundation at the science-policy interface, join this CareerTalk!

https://www.foodpackagingforum.org/

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