Support for PhD and Postdocs
Postdoc Career Programme
Strengthen your scientific creativity for a stronger career
Postdoc Workshop 2-3 June
The BRIC Creativity Workshop, is designed to strengthen creativity in research, enhance collaboration and provide practical tools you can use immediately in your daily work. 2-3 of June 2026, BRIC seminar room facilitated by Mads Korsgaard.
This course is for researchers who want to understand how creativity works, learn new methods for idea generation, improve group dynamics and explore how AI can support creative thinking.
Why does it matter?
Strengthening creativity directly supports key parts of an academic trajectory:
- Better research ideas and higher originality
- Stronger grant applications
- More efficient problem solving in the lab
- Improved collaboration and leadership
- Higher resilience in high-pressure environments
- Researchers who can generate ideas, navigate team dynamics and facilitate creative discussions have a visible professional advantage both in academia and industry settings
By participating, you will
- Develop a shared understanding and language for creativity
- Become aware of creative habits, biases and blockages
- Learn and experiment with concrete creative techniques
- Manage group dynamics and collaboration in creative processes
- Reflect on organizational and social aspects of creativity
- Transfer creative processes to everyday research practice
- Experiment with AI as a creative collaborator in your work
TIme and place
2-3 of June 2026, BRIC seminar room
SIgn up!
Sign up for the Postdoc workshop
Deadline: 1 May. Limited spots available!
BRIC offers a number of career initiatives tailored for postdocs at BRIC/Finsen.
The aim of the programme is to equip postdocs with knowledge and tools for effective career planning.
Career development
The seminar series is aimed at Postdocs who want to find out about making the transition from Postdoc to independent team leader.
Juniors and more experienced group leaders will share their experience with you.
BRIC Alumni Association provides a community for BRIC alumni and current staff to expand their network, gain career advice, and professional development.
It's not always easy to figure out the next step in your career when you always thought you will run your own lab in the future.
Thanks to our alumni, you will be able to learn about different career path and how the transition from BRIC to outside academia could be.
Career seminars are organized several times per year.
BRIC is involved in teaching undergraduate courses and you have the opportunity to develop your teaching skills.
Peer Mentoring aims to foster a supportive community where postdocs can share experiences between eachother, offer guidance, and develop professionally.
What is Peer Mentoring?
Peer mentoring involves a mutually beneficial relationship where individuals at similar stages in their careers support each other. Unlike traditional mentoring, which typically involves a senior mentor guiding a junior mentee, peer mentoring allows for a more collaborative and reciprocal exchange of knowledge and skills.
This approach can help address common challenges, enhance problem-solving abilities, and build a strong network of professional relationships.
Peer mentoring at BRIC has been running successfully in the last years and we aim to continue regularly starting new groups.
Those who sign up will be assigned into groups of 5-7 people. As much as possible, we will try to match you according to your career stage and mix you outside of your usual working group. You will all receive an introduction to get an idea of how this works and then it's up to the group what is discussed.
Interested? Sign up here
Once we have enough postdocs to form a group, we will contact you for an introduction session. You will be able to decide whether to commit to a Peer Mentoring group after the introduction session.