EU-LIFE Pathfinder

Following the success of the LIBRA Career Development Compass, EU-LIFE Gender Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Working Group (GEDI) is relaunching the mentoring initiative to support women early career researchers at the postdoctoral level to advance their careers. 

The goals of the mentoring programme are to: 

• Support postdoctoral women on their paths to independence and professional development;
• Place a focus on the challenges women may encounter in their careers and possible approaches/solutions to those challenges;
• Provide EU-LIFE postdoctoral women with access to the entire pool of experienced mentors across 15 EU-LIFE institutes;
• Build an engaged and collaborative network of mentor-scientists across EU-LIFE institutes;
• Provide a platform for science managers/PIs from diverse scientific career paths to share their experiences, knowledge and advice with postdocs.

On this webpage you can find the participating mentors and their bios, as well as the programme guidelines and practical information. This programme is addressed to postdoctoral women of EU-LIFE institutes and the call for applications is open from 15 February to 15 March 2024.

Participating mentors

Please click on the profiles below for short bios of our mentors. For a compiled list of bios in PDF, please click here.