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! 2026 Career Session
Dr. rer. nat Dennis Eckmeier
Science Journalist
Dennis works as a science journalist for one of the largest German speaking science channels on YouTube, ‘Doktor Whatson’. The channel received several awards for journalism and science communication, including the Grimme online Audience Award and Sartorius LifeScienceXplained. Dennis writes about a variety of topics in science and technology.
He received his biology degree at the University of Cologne in 2006 and a PhD in neuroscience at Bielefeld University in 2010. He worked as postdoc at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA, and at Champalimaud Research, Portugal until 2018.
