Coach Dr. Beate Scholz

Beate Scholz is director of "SCHOLZ consulting training coaching". She has worked as strategy consultant, project facilitator and coach since 2003 (until April 2008 in addition to her position at the German Research Foundation, DFG). Her company focuses on supporting universities, research organisations and research policy-makers in designing, implementing and evaluating strategies and programmes for research career development and international cooperation in research. Training and coaching of individual investigators and researcher teams with focus on research career development issues and strategic acquisition of research funds completes the portfolio of Beate Scholz's company. Meanwhile, SCHOLZ CTC has worked with more than 80 institutions in Germany and internationally.

From 1997 until 2008 Beate Scholz worked for Germany's central research funding organisation, the DFG, where she headed the Research Career Strategy division, beginning in 2001. She was involved in developing Germany's Excellence Initiative, specifically the Graduate Schools Programme.
During the last 14 years she has regularly served on expert committees of the European Commission and of the OECD, recently the EU Expert Group on the ERA Communication. She initiated and chaired the European Science Foundation's Member Organisation Forum on Research Careers and, subsequently, has been principal advisor to the ESF's European Alliance on Research Career Development as well as the ESF Career Tracking and Monitoring Platform. In addition, she chaired the international management committee of the Euro-pean Young Investigator (EURYI) Award. Since 2013, she acts as an invited expert of the Max Planck Presidential Commission for the Evaluation of the Max Planck Society's Research Career Strategy.

Beate Scholz serves regularly as reviewer in selection panels for doctoral programmes and junior investigator schemes. In addition, she is member of the global research community "Forces and Forms of Change of Doctoral Education Worldwide" based at the University of Washington in Seattle

Beate Scholz holds a PhD in Modern Italian History from the University of Trier. She studied history, political sciences and international economics at the Universities of Trier, Reading/UK and Cologne and carried out research in Italy and Austria.