Workshop: Advanced Scientific Writing
This 2-days workshop addresses young scientists (max. 16 participants) from the Natural Sciences who have already gained some writing experience having written their PhD theses or papers.
- https://www.uni-giessen.de/de/fbz/zentren/ggl/curriculum/Postdocs/workshops/2026/advanced_scientific_writing2026
- Workshop: Advanced Scientific Writing
- 2026-11-11T11:00:00+01:00
- 2026-11-12T12:00:00+01:00
- This 2-days workshop addresses young scientists (max. 16 participants) from the Natural Sciences who have already gained some writing experience having written their PhD theses or papers.
11.11.2026 11:00 bis 12.11.2026 12:00 (Europe/Berlin / UTC100)
Online meeting
Postdocs and doctoral candidates of the JLU
About the workshop (in english)
Writing scientific manuscripts is rewarding but can also turn out to be a frustrating task, even for experienced authors. The workshop focuses on improving the skills of writing texts and generating figures. An important part is to get acquainted with the “Word Flow” method of writing which aims at making writing faster and less frustrating. The use of AI in writing will be discussed: how to profit from AI, what do journals allow? The second focus lies on scientific figures. Good and bad examples from the life sciences will be shown and will be reviewed by the participants. Writing reviews and being the corresponding author are likely tasks of the more experienced scientist. We will address both topics in the training. Finally, we will imbed your questions that you will bring along into the workshop.
A comprehensive hand-out as well as a certificate of attendance will be provided.
Content
• How to prepare the writing phase?
• Concepts as decisive writing tools
• The “Word Flow” method, practised by writing small texts
• Use of AI in writing
• Improve writing individual sections of manuscripts
• Improve your scientific English
• Improve your skills in generating figures
• Good figures / bad figures
• Writing scientific reviews
• Interaction with co-workers and co-authors
• Submission of publications
• Being the corresponding author
• The reviewer’s view of manuscripts
• Dealing with problems in writing and publishing
• Your questions
Requirements
There will be some limited preparatory work for the participants to do (announced by E-mail several weeks ahead of the workshop). A computer is required for the workshop.
Registration (max. 16 participants)
Speaker
Prof. Dr. Martin K. Wild
Born 1964 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Diploma in Biology, University of Freiburg
Ph.D. at the German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg
Post-Doc at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford University, UK Research group leader at the University of Münster, Germany
Research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Münster
Coordinator of the International Max Planck Reserach School – Molecular Biomedicine, Münster, since 2009
Professor at the University of Münster, since 2010
o 40+ publications (www.mpi-muenster.mpg.de/99881/wild)
o Reviewing activity for a variety of journals (e.g. EMBO, PNAS, Nature)
o Teaching at the Universities of Freiburg, Oxford, and Münster
o Supervision of PhD and Master students
For detailed question please direct contact the trainers (Contact: mwild@mpi-muenster.mpg.de)