This list provides you with a thematically sorted overview of the JGU points of contact where you can obtain information and advice on specific topics.

Specific information on your career phase:

The Equality and Diversity Office promotes equal opportunities at JGU, providing information and advising in an advisory capacity. It also provides information on support and funding opportunities for qualified young female scientists and advises women in an advisory capacity on career-specific issues.

  • Young Female Researchers Program (ProWeWin) to promote young female researchers in the late phase of their doctorate or postdocs.

The Center for Data Processing (ZDV) is JGU’s central IT service provider. If you have any questions about your JGU account, network access, hardware and software, or any other technical issues, please contact the ZDV hotline.

The Research Data Competence Team is at your disposal with information material, lectures and workshops.

The first point of contact for questions about the current doctoral regulations and subject-related questions is the respective dean’s office of the faculties.

Examination Office Doctoral Administration

The Family Services Center provides information and advice on all questions relating to compatibility of family and career to all (expectant) parents and those who are involved in caring for relatives alongside their job or studies.

The Research Services unit of the JGU Department of Research and Technology Transfer provides help and advice on questions and research on funding opportunities, such as self-organized events or conference trips, application procedures and the research environment at JGU.

Interesting for doctoral candidates: Internal University Research Funding “Stufe 1”
With this application for travel grants, JGU would like to support the active participation of registered doctoral candidates in scientific events.

Personnel development (PD) offers for JGU employees, as well as externals, in science, research and teaching:

Offers from the Equal Opportunities and Diversity Office (GuD) to promote ECRs:

The JGU Doctoral Candidate Representation ‘PhD Representatives‘ (Doktorandenvertretung, DoV) is available to answer questions about doctoral studies and represents the interests of doctoral candidates in JGU committees.

Junior Group Leaders of Life and Natural Sciences at JGU (JUGGLE):

A currently inactive network of junior group leaders from the natural and life sciences, from JGU and surrounding institutes such as the IMB, the MPIs, …

Are you interested in reviving the network and getting involved in your peer group? Contact us (natlife@uni-mainz.de) and we will bring you together!

Postdoc Community of the University Medical Center
Network with other scientists in your career phase at the University Medical Center.

The International Office provides information and advice to (international) researchers, incomings and outgoings, on non-academic and practical matters relating to planning your stay.

The Welcome Center is the central service and advice center for international academics and their families. Here you will receive advising in all non-academic and practical matters and you will be helped in planning, preparing and carrying out your stay at JGU.

The Welcome Center regularly sends out information via an e-mail distribution list, which you can log in to at any time. Simply send an informal e-mail to welcome@international.uni-mainz.de.

The online platform JoGuGATE is especially for all doctoral candidates. Here you will find lots of useful information about your stay at JGU. You can register at any time.

The Career Service provides support with career guidance:

  • Individual information and advice
  • Events on topics related to career planning

The Data Center provides an AI service for JGU. This includes various large language models. You will need a JGU account to log in. The AI chat is available to employees and students. The ZDV controls and hosts the service itself, so the data (except for the web search) remains within JGU.

Further information
and details on “AI at JGU” can be obtained from the ZDV.
The university library (UB) also provides information and advising on the use of AI in connection with studying, teaching and research.
In addition, the digital teaching team can provide you with information and recommendations on the use of AI in university education.

JGU employees can seek help and support at the conflict counseling center. The contact persons are obliged to treat all oral and written information confidentially and to maintain confidentiality towards third parties not involved in the procedure.

Contact points, information and regulations & rules for good scientific practice bundled in one place: GSP at JGU
These include the JGU Ombudsperson, the Academic Integrity Competence Center and the Research Data Competence Team.

The Study Portal provides information about the requirements for a doctorate at JGU, the individual application steps and the necessary forms and documents.

If you have any questions about the application and admission process, please contact the Student Services.

We have compiled the individual steps for starting your doctorate at JGU.

The University Library is JGU’s literature and information system. Information events and consultation hours are offered on bibliography management, good scientific practice and much more.

At the end of your doctorate, you must submit your work to the UB and publish it.

Service of the University Library for doctoral candidates:
Permanent lockers and reading cubicles – if you have no other workspace (office) at JGU.

Are you missing a topic or a contact point? Send us your suggestions (natlife@uni-mainz.de).

Learning and developing from and with each other.

Why?

  • Reflection on your own professional role
  • Developing solutions together to tackle acute problems from everyday (working) life
  • Discover new ideas and perspectives

How?

  • Structured counseling in group meetings
  • Protected environment within a fixed group
  • Participants advise each other, acting as both advice seekers and advisors

Many of the contact points listed above at JGU offer advice on specific topics.
In addition, we offer individual and confidential advice on other topics of your concern, as well as individual coaching sessions.

Coaching is a resource-oriented option to seek out for support when personal deliberations and conversations with peers have reached their limits.

During your coaching period, your coach is available to you in the role of a professional sparring partner. Together you focus on what you yourself can influence. By doing so, the goal is to help you utilize your personal resources to their full extent. Once you know your options for action and can mobilize your potential for finding solutions, you will have the tools to create your own alternatives to deal with the situations that bother you. You make your own, individual decisions. During this process, your coach nudges you to think about questions and viewpoints from an external perspective, helping you see the full unbiased picture.

The coaching process is never the same and is always personalized. It consists of typically 3 sessions of 90 minutes.

Ed Eller is a systemic coach and approved as Alternative Practicioner Psychotherapy.
She has worked as an independent counselor with scientists as well as with executives from a variety of commercial sectors since 2003. Additionally, she is Head of ADA Lovelace Talent Development at JGU.

Appointments can be scheduled via the NatLife team.

The coaching sessions can be held in German and English and take place in person on the JGU campus.