University-based Institutes for Advanced Study provide a special academic environment and freedom to research in a likewise crucial and creative phase – without offering a permanent position.
In this context, the ECR perspective focuses on career development, grant writing, publication pressure and global networking, while the IAS perspective centres on interdisciplinarity, excellency, talent acquisition, community building, and enhancing university presence.
The series is likely to be of interest to doctoral students seeking their first postdoctoral positions, early-career researchers, staff at IASs and their associated universities, current Fellows, IAS alumnae/i and potential applicants. Future sessions will explore interdisciplinarity, mentoring, and making an academic career.
Further information on the network of University-based Institutes for Advanced Study, its activities and the 47 members across the world can be found at http://www.ubias.net/. The 2026 Topic of the Year “The Future of Knowledge Production” encourages all members to open space for intellectual debates and contribute with events.
The events will be live on ZOOM. Recordings are available afterwards on the UBIAS website and YouTube channel.
https://uni-konstanz-de.zoom.us/j/65153538563?pwd=YxrFacSfBjxqYrXhga7bKL4ujrpqyb.1
Webinar-ID: 651 5353 8563
Passwort: 061266
Talk 4: Career Development, 5 October 2026, 17:00–17.30 CET
The short seminar will share and discuss how Institutes of Advanced Study (IAS) support the career development of Early Career Researchers particularly after their PhD (R2-3 European Framework for Research Careers).
Speakers:
Philipp Höfele, Early Career Fellow, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies FRIAS – Young Academy for Sustainability Research
Biographies:
Ralf von den Hoff has been directing the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) since 2022. As a professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Freiburg his research focuses on visual culture studies of ancient Greece and the Roman empire. He was a senior fellow at FRIAS in 2012/13 and at the Morphomata Center for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Cologne University in 2018/19 and 2020. Between 2012 and 2024 he directed the interdisciplinary research centre (SFB) Heroes – Heroizations – Heroims from Antiquity to Today at the University of Freiburg, which more deeply rooted his interest in potentials of interdisciplinary research and in dialogues beyond disciplinary borders.