Career Decisions: Finding One’s Way in the Academy
Many PhD students have a passion for academic research and teaching, and they would love to stay in academia, possibly becoming professors. Too often, however, they realise how many hindrances and unknown criteria appear on the way and give up. In this talk we interview different committed Christian academics who are in various stages of their careers facing a vast array of questions, opportunities, and challenges. Through this, we learn how a Christian can prepare well for an academic career.
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Anna Fiona Weiss has always been fascinated by language and therefore studied German and Latin for teaching at the University of Marburg. She then decided to stay in academia and wrote a doctoral thesis in the field of neurolinguistics. In her dissertation, she developed a cognitive model for predicting regressive eye movements during reading. After completing her PhD, she also completed her teaching degree with the 2nd state examination. Since 2019 she has been working as a Postdoc Researcher (Akademische Rätin) at the University of Eichstätt, until summer 2024 she also worked as a teacher at a highschool in Ingolstadt. Her research primarily focusses on cognitive processing of language (L1 and L2) and reading.
Christina Stier is a neuroscientist passionate about brain imaging, mental and neurological disorders, lifespan research, and interindividual variability. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Münster, Germany, in a city with a lot of bicycle traffic. In 2022, she completed her PhD in systems neuroscience on uncovering the link between brain networks and the genetic background of generalized epilepsies at the Universities Göttingen and Tübingen, Germany. During her psychology studies in Basel and Berlin, she gained insights into work in the health care system (child psychiatry, crisis intervention, and neuropsychology).
