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"Meet Your Future You" - Working and living in Berlin
In the fifth episode of our event series "Meet Your Future You", we welcome two international researchers who have built their academic careers in Berlin. Originally from Brazil and Spain, both speakers will share their personal and professional journeys, and reflect on what motivated them to choose Germany – and Berlin in particular – as their new home.
As our summer edition, this session offers a more easy-going format – while still providing valuable insights into research careers and everyday life in Germany’s capital.
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The event
Date: 9 July 2025
Time: 4 - 5 PM CEST
Platform: MS Teams (register here) - Access only via the link in the confirmation email.
Don’t miss this opportunity to gain first-hand insights and explore Berlin city life!
Episode 5: "Meet Your Future You" - Working and living in Berlin
Our guests will speak about their research paths and career steps in Germany, living and working as international researchers in Berlin, challenges and opportunities of relocating to a new country and strategies for maintaining a healthy work-life balance. This session offers a unique opportunity to gain an authentic perspective on what it’s like to live and conduct research in Germany.
The event will be held in English and is open to early-career researchers from around the world.
- Introduction by "Research in Germany"
- Dr. Ana Alonso Serrano (15min presentation)
- Dr. Claudia Seldin (15min presentation)
- Q&A Session
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Dr. Ana Alonso Serrano got her PhD in 2015 in the Complutense University of Madrid, since then she had postodoctoral contracts in Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand) and Charles University of Prague (Czech Republic). After this experience she came to Germany with an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship to work in the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, extending her stay there with a couple of postdoctoral contracts. Last year she joined the Humboldt University of Berlin thanks to a DFG grant to pursue her project.
She is also very involved in science communication, mainly trough her participation in Soapbox Science and AuthentiSci teams, and she is an advocate for equity and diversity in academia.
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Dr. Claudia Seldin has a master's degree and a PhD in Urban Studies from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, pursued with research stays at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar in 2007 and 2013. She is currently a researcher and lecturer at the Center for Metropolitan Studies of the Technische Universität Berlin, where she was a Humboldt/Capes postdoctoral fellow from 2020 to 2022.
In the past 20 years, she has held several fellowships from both German and Brazilian funding agencies, including the DAAD, the Leibniz Institute, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (in Germany), CNPq, CAPES, and FAPERJ (in Brazil). Her research and teaching interests include city marketing/branding, urban resistance movements, decolonial theory, and the impacts of digitalization on urban policy and real estate narratives.
Dr. Seldin has a strong passion for the dissemination of knowledge produced in South America. She is part of the managing and communication groups of Rede Apoena (Apoena Network) - the Network of Brazilian Scientists and Researchers in Germany, which is institutionally supported by the Brazilian Embassy in Berlin and the international offices of several universities throughout Germany.