Professional Science Coaching Service

Leadership experience in management boards and scientific societies, Full Professor and Chairman , 30+ years experience and active scientist in biomedical research, PhD in Physics, MBA in Science and Higher Education Management, DBVC-certified education as professional coach.

Typical Motivations

You are a scientist or researchers and are driven by a high degree of intrinsic motivation, but face issues with

• leadership role identification and conflicts,
• Strategy development for your research and for your group/department/institute/faculty
• your career and your career perspectives,
• change of career (academia vs. industry, change of institutions, leadership positions, …)
• colleagues and acemdic life,
• managing private vs. academic life.
• interpersonal and team conflicts,
• managing your career in an interdisciplinary research environment,
• dealing with diversity aspects (nationality, gender, age, …)

How can coaching help?

At times it can be difficult to find somebody who knows the system, who has no own interests, and who has some oversight, to speak with.

Sometimes you may just be looking for an independant sparring partner to discuss your ideas with.

As a researcher, you may be trained to not make your personality visible in your research¹. As such, you may consider your frustrations, negative feelings, etc. normal and something you have to live with it. There may be some trueth in this, but it is more than clear from reseach that extended levels and durations of stress can have negative impact on your emotional and physical health, and may result in burnout, also in young scientists^2,3.

As coach I will help you identify problems and to find solutions. The key here is that we will work together to identify your issues and solutions, independent of what my experiences are. However, since I am not a professional

My experience and qualifications

30+ years experience as a researcher in an highly interdisciplinary environment (physicist by education, spent my whole academic career so far in biomedical research, collaborting with colleagues of different medical (e.g., cardiology, radiology, nuclear medicine, neurology, gynecology, …) and non-medical (e.g., chemistry, mathematics, informatics, …) disciplines, nationalities, …

• 20+ years in academic leadership positions,
• almost 10 years as a chair woman, department head, and member of managing board,
• and have been president of my national science society (German Society of Medical Physics), and >6 years member of its governing board
• I have been women’s representative of Wuerzburg University
• I have been Ombudsperson for good scientific practice at Wuerzburg University

will help me understand what occupies you, and how your professsional environment may contribute to this. Also, what perspectives you may have, and where to look for them.

I have formal DBVC-certified education as a professional business coaching from the Leadership Academy in Karlsruhe (Germany). This has further improved my advisory skills.

Services

• Individual, team, and organizational coaching, conflict coaching

• In-person meetings
• online-coaching

Selected References / Customers

Berliner Hochschule für Technik, Berlin (Germany)

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe (Germany)

Mainz University Hospital, Mainz (Germany)

Potsdam University, Potsdam (Germany)

Contact

If you are interested, please contact me by email or phone.

Footnotes

¹Nordling, Nina. „How coaching could help tackle toxic research cultures“. Nature, Career Q&A, 13 2023. https://doi.org/doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00063-8.

²Watts, J., und N. Robertson. „Burnout in university teaching staff: a systematic literature review“. Educational Research 53, Nr. 1 (1. März 2011): 33–50. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131881.2011.552235.

³Boone, Anke, Tinne Vander Elst, Sofie Vandenbroeck, und Lode Godderis. „Burnout Profiles Among Young Researchers: A Latent Profile Analysis“. Frontiers in Psychology 13 (27. Mai 2022): 839728. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.839728.