(Post-)Graduate Support at its Best!

Research is exciting! Progress and advancement would be inconceivable without research. So, it's no wonder that there is a broad and interested public that would like to participate in research without being a direct player themselves. Communicating research can also be fun! Passing on one's own enthusiasm for research, engaging in exchange, getting new ideas and impulses - that is important and appropriate.

Moreover, research is usually paid for with public money, so research should be able to give something back to the general public and, in the best case, even involve it.

But is this claim so easy and straightforward to realize? Not only since the pandemic and the public's great interest in research have scientists often been confronted with the challenge of mastering external communication in addition to their time-consuming everyday tasks. Communicating research is often very complicated - because the research content itself is. And expressing complex things simply, clearly and interestingly is an art.

In this exciting field between science and the public, desires and demands, complexity and easily digestible presentation, our panel discussion between researchers and practitioners of science communication will take place. The audience is invited to join the discussion!

The discussion will be moderated by the renowned science journalist Dr. Jan-Martin Wiarda. The panel will include:

• Rebecca Winkels, Project Manager for the Science Communication Portal at “Wissenschaft im Dialog”
  
  
• Sandra Ciesek, Director of the Institute for Medical Virology at Frankfurt University Hospital and Professor of Medical Virology at Goethe University
  
  
• Eva Geulen, Director of the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research in Berlin and Professor of European Cultural History and History of Knowledge at the Humboldt University of Berlin
  
  
• Christian Münch, Emmy Noether Group Leader, Institute for Biochemistry at Goethe University