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EMBO Event

EMBO Lab Leadership Course for Group Leaders

15 – 17 October 2025 | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

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  • Application Deadline
  • 15 July 2025
  • Selected Participants Will Be Notified By
  • 30 July 2025

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About the Event

This course is reserved for group leaders based in Chile and requires participants to attend the 3 full days of the course.

Researchers are trained to think about experimental plans and data, to write papers and grants. Yet, researchers are generally not trained to lead teams which is an essential skill when becoming an independent group leader. As all the other skills researchers acquire, team management and leadership skills can be learned and developed.

If you are ready to develop your skills as a leader of a team or research group, then this course is for you. Your training and experience so far have given you excellent technical and research skills, including careful observation, data collection, hypothesis development, planning, experimentation, and critical thinking. This course will build on those skills and teach you how to use those ‘research tools’ to work effectively with your people. The course will also enhance your leadership with practical tools from psychology, social science, human behavioural science, and the business world. You will learn how to lead with empathy to empower your people to get innovative, reproducible research done.

Two trainers deliver the workshops and work to balance their expertise and diversity to ensure that you receive the widest range of expertise, experience and insight possible from your training team.

 

Speakers

 

Programme

Leadership and management skills are critical for a successful career in science. EMBO, in partnership with consultancy teams, has designed this course specifically to meet the needs of researchers and others in academia.

The course is a conversation between you, the other participants, and the trainers, to explore and cultivate your leadership skills. The course relies on your critical thinking, intelligence, and personal experience to work with the tools and models offered to develop your own leadership approach. To facilitate the spirit of discussion and exploration, the trainers deliver the content with contributions from participants captured directly and integrated into the course. The course involves learning about models and tools from psychology, human behavioural science, and business, and a lot of small group work to explore ideas and practice with each other. The emphasis on discussion and interaction also makes the course a great opportunity to network with peers and share the joys and frustrations of being a leader in research.

Benefits

  • Introduce you to key leadership concepts
  • Develop further your own individual leadership style
  • Equip you with key communication skills
  • Learn how to effectively select the right staff
  • Expand your support network for leadership issues in the lab

Topics

  • Leadership & Management

  • Role development

  • Team development

  • Values

  • Emotional Intelligence & Personality

  • Communication

  • Feedback

  • Motivation

  • Conflict management

  • Working environment

  • Delegation

  • Empowering others

Trainers

  • EMBO Lab Leadership trainers come from many different backgrounds, and all have been working directly and extensively with leaders in the life sciences for many years. The training team includes scientists, organisational development experts, human resources professionals, MBA graduates, mathematicians, professional coaches, scientists from industry, and others with significant and relevant experience to supporting leaders in the life sciences to improve their leadership and develop their teams and strategies.

Additional details about these and other workshops are also available on the EMBO Lab Leadership website.

 

Registration

  • Application Deadline
  • 15 July 2025
  • Selected Participants Will Be Notified By
  • 30 July 2025

 

The course registration fee is covered by EMBO.

Selection criteria

A total of 10 participants will be selected to attend each course.

Applicants will be selected by a panel of senior researchers and faculty based on the following criteria:

  • Ability to attend the 3 full days of the course

  • Faculty membership in universities and research institutes (within 7 years of joining)

  • Funding record

  • Publication record

Important note:

To secure their place in the course, shortlisted applicants will be asked to present an endorsement letter from their departments (or equivalent) stating they will be freed from other responsibilities during the days of the course.

Certificates of participation will only be issued to participants who attend the entirety of the course.

Code of conduct

Anti-harassment and non-discrimination policy

At EMBO, we believe that harassment and discriminatory behaviour are unacceptable in any setting. EMBO's code of conduct is applicable for all participants of this course and can be found here.

 

Contact

Institute of Biological and Medical Engineering, tprodrig@uc.cl

EMBO Global Activities office, global@embo.org

 

 

Venue

The course will be hosted at the Institute for Biological and Medical Engineering - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile