Career Session
What career opportunities are there after my PhD?
How can I take the next step in my career?
What can I already do for my professional future during my PhD?
Many of us ask ourselves these questions at some point during the PhD and the answers are not easy to find. The career session at the EUREKA Symposium is meant to help PhD students find their way. We will discuss with guests who have taken different career paths what experiences they have had and what advice they would like to give to the current generation of PhD students.
We are delighted to welcome our guests for the EUREKA! 2025 Career Session
Dr. Thomas Ziegenhals
Director of in vitro Transcription Development at BioNTech SE
Dr. Jan Freudenthal
Managing Consultant at adesso SE
Jan Freudenthal earned a bachelor’s degree in Agriculture from the University of Kiel, followed by an M.Sc. in Agriculture at the University of Göttingen. He then began his Ph.D. at the Graduate School of Life Sciences (GSLS) within the Center for Computational and Theoretical Biology, in Prof. Arthur Korte’s evolutionary genomics group. His research focused on decomposing the genomic architecture of quantitative traits, with the goal of predicting drought tolerance in various crop and model species, such as maize and Arabidopsis thaliana.
He completed his Ph.D. in January 2020 and has worked in IT consulting ever since, specializing in machine learning and artificial intelligence. Since January 2025, he has been with adesso—Germany’s largest IT service provider—where he drives AI-driven digital transformation for clients. Additionally, he co-founded GenoBI, a startup offering data and AI services to companies in the agricultural sector.
Prof. Dr. Eva Klopocki
Professor at Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg
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