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🧠🍴 BRAINFOOD BREAKS 🍴🧠
Postdocs gotta eat too!

The PDO cordially invites you to a brand-new series of informal lunchtime talks for postdocs to:

✔️ Get to know other postdocs
✔️ Discover other researchers’ projects
✔️ Mingle and connect
✔️ …and most importantly, HAVE FUN (and FOOD)!

🎉 1ST EVENT – YOU’RE INVITED! 🎉

📅 DATE: Wednesday, 16 July
🕛 TIME: 12:00 – 13:00
📍 WHERE: Downtown, Central Building

🍽️ ON THE MENU:
FREE BUFFET LUNCH + Rapid-Fire Research Talks by our amazing NOMIS-ISTA Postdoc Fellows!

🎤 FEED YOUR BRAIN WITH:

Louise Fouqueau
Barton Group, ISTA & Willi Group, Univ. of Basel

Andrea Navas-Olive
Jonas Group & Vogels Group, ISTA

Andrei Militaru
Fink Group & Hosten Group, ISTA

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🔗 REGISTER BY JULY 9th
We need to know how many stomachs to feed!
👉 https://postdoc.pages.ist.ac.at/brainfood-breaks

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Let’s feed our minds, our networks, and our bellies.
⏰ PROGRAM

12:00 – Welcome from PDO
12:05 – Fellow 1: Louise Fouqueau
12:12 – Fellow 2: Andrea Navas-Olive
12:19 – Fellow 3: Andrei Militaru
12:26 – Q&A & Discussion
12:36 – FREE BUFFET LUNCH 🍲
13:00 – End

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🎯 DID YOU KNOW?
If your contract started after June 13th, 2024, you may be eligible to apply for the current NOMIS-ISTA fellowship call!
📌 Great chance to ask questions to current fellows in person!

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See you on July 16th! 👋

NEXT EVENT: September 2025

If you are looking for collaborator(s) or are already pursuing a collaboration and would like to present your project at the next Brainfood Breaks events, please sign up here!

To  recognize the essential role of postdocs at the institute and their extraordinary accomplishments, ISTA is launching the inaugural ISTA Postdoc Prize.

The ISTA postdoc prize aims to reward a recent scientific breakthrough led by a postdoc during their time at ISTA.

The award will be celebrated during a special Institute colloquium (in spring ’25 or fall ’25), when the awardee will showcase their winning project.

The award recipient will receive a monetary prize of 3,500 euros (pre-tax). The deadline for nomination is May 9th 2025

For more information please visit our Intranet space

On November 21st, 2024 the Postdoctoral Office hosted a fun afternoon to celebrate the IST-BRIDGE postdoctoral fellowship. This MSCA co-fund program envisioned 5 calls starting in 2021 from which around 60 postdoc fellows would be selected to carry out cutting edge research over the course of two years.

Postdocs had the opportunity to hear some fun facts about the program, have a strikingly honest account of the adventures in the entrepreneurship world from a Postdoc Alumnus, interact in a job search networking blitz activity, be enthralled by PechaKucha rapid-fire presentations from current fellows, drink, mingle, disagree, laugh and eat.

Big thank you to all the postdocs and speakers who participated in the event!