The scientific work of postdocs at DIfE is characterized by extensive research activities. The first three years serve as orientation. It gives the postdocs the opportunity to choose the path within the scientific landscape that suits them best. The subsequent three-year phase enables them to qualify in terms of content according to the previously defined career goals. In terms of an academic career, this means acquiring their own third-party funding and publishing the results developed in these projects as a last author. The goal is to establish oneself with one's own research topic and to qualify for a professorship. The support measures described at the DIfE in the postdoc guidelines are deliberately kept flexible so that individually tailored measures can also be made possible according to personal career goals.