Coffee Connections

By Hanni Geist

I meet many students, researchers and other professionals during my travels representing the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). They come from diverse backgrounds, and their careers and fields o... more

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The podcast currently has 52 episodes available.

Coffee Connections episodes:

April 25, 2020 E11 - Individual PhD I Cancer Research I Finding a Mentor and Lab I Kölle Alaaf!
Today’s episode highlights include
• How to obtain a PhD choosing the individual path
• Strategies to find a mentor and lab
• Cancer research
• Carneval in Cologne - Kölle Alaaf!
• And this week’s travel suggestions: Germany’s national parks and Düsseldorf.
You can get in touch with Lin via [email protected].
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29min
April 11, 2020 E10 – Immigrant Germany Experience I Community Support I Authentic Asian Food
Today’s episode highlights include:
• Vietnamese – American – German connections
• Refugees and how to support the community
• Fulbright Teaching – Diversity Program
• This week there are a few travel suggestions: Aachen, Monschau, Bonn, Cologne and Düsseldorf
For Monschau, I highly recommend you search for it online and virtually travel to this beautiful town.
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31min
April 04, 2020 E9 – Global Citizen I Culture Shock & Career Opportunities I Education Systems I
Today’s episode highlights include
• Growing up in Germany in a military family
• Culture shock, adjusting and professional opportunities as a global citizen
• The US and German education system compared
• The concepts of “where are you from” and “where is home”
• And this week’s travel highlights include Weimar, Eisenach, Garmisch
You can get in touch with Kati via [email protected].
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33min
March 28, 2020 E8 - Individual PhD I German identity post 1989 I German-Polish town Görlitz
Today’s episode highlights include:
• How to obtain a PhD in Germany via the individual track
• The German perspective on US and Canadian research
• Germany in the 21st century - reunification, immigration and national identity
• This week’s travel suggestion is the German-Polish city Görlitz/Zgorzelec – you may already know it from movies.
Today’s Coffee Connection is Swen Steinberg, Post-Doctoral Fellow at Queens University in Canada and one of our dedicated DAAD Research Ambassadors.
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33min
March 21, 2020 E7 - Green Germany I Individual responsibility I Work life balance I Career paths with German
Today’s episode highlights include
• How study abroad sets you apart to advance your career and career opportunities with German
• Funding opportunities for study and research through the German government
• Green Germany I public transportation I Individual responsibility and work life balance
• This week’s travel suggestion is Freiburg and the cities and countries nearby.
You can get in touch with Haley via [email protected].
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30min
March 07, 2020 E6 - US-German exchange I The not so awful German language I post 1989 Germany opportunities
Today’s episode highlights include:
• Why the German language isn’t so awful and what you can do with a German degree
• What German – American exchange programs are behind the acronyms GAPP and CBYX
• Germans: welcoming, well informed, and eco-friendly
• And the travel recommendations for today are: Goslar, Regensburg, Rügen
• Plus we hear about Vienna – not in Germany, but rich in Germanic history, culture and language
CBYX website: cbyx.info and get in touch with Daniel via [email protected]
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34min
February 22, 2020 E5 - Funding Research I Escaping the Archive Bubble I Family I Lost in Translation
Today’s episode highlights include
• Advice on applying successfully to a research grant
• Information for young families
• German directness in academia – and the benefits after the initial shock
• American/German lost in translation
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• And we have a travel recommendation: visit the Harz mountains for its local beer and witchcraft – and hear what’s to see in the town of Halbestadt.
You can get in touch with Jonathan Fine at [email protected].
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32min
February 08, 2020 E4 - German health care I (Science) curious Germany I Diversity I Travel Germany!
Today’s episode highlights include:

• German health care system
• Germany: small country with lots of different culture and language variation
• Renu’s tips on how best to connect with a researcher in Germany
• Renu’s interdisciplinary research at the Helmholtz Center and Max Planck Institute in Munich
• Travel highlights North, South, East and West
And today’s bonus: Renu talks about her TedX Berlin talk “Strike a Pose”.
You can get in touch with Renu Singh at [email protected].
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35min
February 01, 2020 E 3 – No German? No Problem! From RWTH Aachen to NASA I Student Life in Germany
Today’s episode highlights include:
• Aravind’s journey from undergraduate in India, to graduate student in Germany to postdoc in the US
• Living and studying in Germany not knowing any German
• What NASA and RWTH Aachen have in common
• Why Aravind believes Germany is the most student friendly country
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• Why Aachen should be on your list of places to visit
You can get in touch with Aravind at [email protected].
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25min
January 25, 2020 E2 - Jewish community I Diversity I Research w/ Family I Bureaucracy I Baltic Sea
Today’s episode highlights include:
• The German Jewish community in Germany today
• Germany as a diverse country
• Going to Germany as a researcher with a family
• Navigating German bureaucracy AND
• Travel highlight: Baltic Sea islands Rügen and Hiddensee, Bamberg, Berchtesgarden & parks in Berlin
Hanni's Coffee Connection today is Max Lazar, PhD student in the History Department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and DAAD Research Ambassador since 2019.
You can get in touch with Max at maxlazar(at)live.unc.edu.
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30min

FAQs about Coffee Connections:

How many episodes does Coffee Connections have?

The podcast currently has 52 episodes available.