Dr Valerie Wolf has been active for over ten years as an expert, consultant and lecturer on topics relating to doctoral studies. She specialises in doctoral planning, time and self-management, networks, crises during the doctoral period, doing a doctorate with a child, funding, career paths within and outside the university. She has been working in science management at the University of Cologne since 2011, currently as head of the Innovation and Knowledge Transfer department.
Dr Valerie Wolf studied and completed her doctorate in literature, musicology and pedagogy at the University of Cologne, Washington University in St. Louis (USA) and the Conservatoire National Supérieure de Paris. She is the author and co-editor of the UniWiND publication ‘Perspektiven nach der Promotion. Berufswege außerhalb der Wissenschaft’ (2018) as well as various academic articles in specialist journals, particularly in German studies.