Boost Your Academic Career: Mastering CV Crafting and Interview Skills

Boost Your Academic Career: Mastering CV Crafting and Interview Skills

Date: Wednesday, August 12
Time: 10:30 – 12:00 CEST
Location: MPI-IS Stuttgart

About the session: You are looking for a PhD position or your next internship, but do not receive any replies from the places you are applying to? This workshop will help you to better understand academic application processes and evaluation criteria and provide you with tips to create a more effective application. In an interactive session we will explore how to draft a great cover letter, CV, and how to sell yourself in an interview. 

About Florian: Dr. Florian Hartmann is a Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, leading the Biomimetic Materials and Machines Group. Dr. Hartmann focuses on the development of soft robotics and electronics, additive manufacturing of functional materials, and sustainable technology. He is a trained physicist and received a doctoral degree in Technical Sciences in 2021 from the Johannes Kepler University Linz in Austria, working with Prof. Martin Kaltenbrunner. After his doctoral studies, Florian Hartmann worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Herbert Shea at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. There, he developed small-scale swimming robots and soft actuation technologies for environmental monitoring in agriculture.