Managing scientific projects as well as project proposals and developing them towards successful science is a common task for scientists as well as practitioner. In this course different approaches will be introduced and discussed. Research does mean much more than identifying crucial research question, finding appropriate data, developing algorithms and deriving new findings. While this course will contain all mentioned issues it will beyond highlight the challenges for raising money for research, writing proposals, building up networks, writing papers and doing presentations. All topics will be introduced by the examples of currently running research projects.

This year, we will have the following sessions and guest lectureres.

• 19.04. (in person) Introduction to the seminar (Prof. Dr. Hannes Taubenböck)
• 26.04. (in person) Earth Observation for Disaster Management Support (Dr. Torsten Riedlinger)
• 03.05. (online) Managing the Center for satellite-based crisis information (ZKI) (Dr. Monika Gähler)
• 10.05. (in person) Research from an Small and Medium Company (SME) perspective… (Dr. Tobias Leichtle)
• 17.05. (online) A research career in the domain of thermal and radar remote sensing for natural hazards (Dr. Simon Plank)
• 24.05. (online) Writing a proposal for a PhD project (Jeroen Staab)
• 31.05. no seminar due to Pfingsten
• 07.06. no seminar due to Pfingsten
• 14.06. (online/in person) Dissemination of science to the public and policy makers (Dr. Nikola Sander & Martin X)
• 21.06. (online) Managing large international research projects - importance, complexity and challenges (Dr. Elisabeth Schöpfer)
• 28.06. (online) Master’s, research associate, service staff, Phd – A career at a large scale research facility (Patrick Aravena)
• 05.07. (in person) The first year of my PhD (Johannes Mast)
• 12.07. (online) Earthquakes, Earth Observation and Machine Learning – one Decade of Research (Prof. Dr. C. Geiß)
• 12.07. Submission of the project proposal
• 19.07. (in person) Presentation of the Proposals (Prof. Dr. Hannes Taubenböck)