Group Leaders

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Why join the BMC?

The Biomedical Center brings together eight research-intensive divisions and institutes of the Medical Faculty of LMU on the Großhadern/Martinsried campus. The location is regarded as one of the most important addresses for life sciences in Europe - a unique concentration of renowned scientific institutions.

As a group leader at the BMC, you will have access to our extensive international network, as well as our Core Facilities on-site, which offer cutting-edge expertise and resources to advance your projects through different technical approaches.

Once you join us, our Onboarding intranet offers you numerous tips about the BMC, LMU and life in Munich. In addition, we regularly organize an onboarding event to get to know each other and, of course, you will receive support and guidance from our colleagues and peers.

Discover our values and how you can contribute to our initiatives.

Interested? Reach out to the appropriate research division / institute to submit your application and take the next step!

Success story of a BMC junior research group leader

Setting up your own research group after a postdoctoral period is one of the most important stages in an academic career. The Biomedical Center has given a number of young researchers the opportunity to do just that.

In many cases, junior researchers choose to join the BMC with their own research grant, for example from the DFG Emmy Noether Program, or one of the prestigious ERC Starting Grants from the European Union. As grant holders, they are given the status of BMC members, which offers them the opportunity to develop and realize their own research ideas embedded in the Center's research infrastructure. The success of these strategies has already become evident, as a number of these junior research group leaders have taken the next career steps after successful years at the BMC, and are now professors at other faculties or universities (BMC Alumni Groups).

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Susanne Koch can tell one of these BMC success stories. She did her postdoctoral research at Columbia University in New York. In 2018, she received a grant from the renowned DFG Emmy Noether program and elected to start her research group at the BMC in the Department of Physiological Genomics. As major drivers for her decision to join the BMC, Susanne Koch names the interactive structure, the close interplay between basic and clinical research as well as the outstanding research infrastructure of the Center and the Großhadern/Martinsried campus. Especially the Core Facilities Bioimaging and Bioinformatics and the state-of-the-art animal facility were decisive aspects for her. Susanne Koch used her time at the BMC as springboard to professorship. Since October 2020, she holds a W2-professorship for Molecular Pharmacology at the Department of Pharmacy at the LMU.

Looking back, she says: "What I especially appreciate about the BMC is that you can easily get in contact with other scientists. Due to various seminar series and events (like the BMC Science Seasons and the summer BBQ) I quickly gained important insights into the research of different groups at the BMC, had the chance to get in touch with people and was inspired to try and use new methods."

Campus Life and Benefits

Optimal conditions are essential for a successful career. That's why the campus offers a wide range of catering, numerous activities, events and leisure activities.

• Campus Life: Life@BMC
• BMC benefits: Working here
• Science & Family
• LMU Benefits
• University Sports
• JobBike Bavaria

Additional Support from LMU

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Furthermore, you will benefit from targeted services offered by LMU and the Medical Faculty, which provide practical assistance to researchers preparing to relocate to us. Their offerings include counselling on project funding applications, guidance on selecting appropriate international funding programs as well as coaching.

• LMU Research Service
• Find the right funding for your project
• Center for Leadership and People Management

Knowledge Transfer - LMU actively promotes the transfer of research to enhance innovation and progress. Each year at LMU, researchers turn experimental data into practical applications, creating spin-offs and patenting discoveries in collaboration with industry and business partners.

The Center for Advanced Studies is a forum for outstanding research at LMU Munich and creates opportunities for interdisciplinary and international exchange.

To create the best possible conditions for cutting-edge research, the LMU has developed a range of advisory and practical services:

• Relocation service: LMU Gateway
• Wellbeing: WeCare@LMU
• Design your career: LMU Career Services
• Dual Career Service

^{* The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2024 published by Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. Read LMU press release}