29.09.2008
“In Tübingen we really receive an excellent education which gives us great chances to get good jobs.”
Omer Libchik from Israel is making the most of his studies in the German Southwest. (Copyright: Baden-Wuerttemberg International)
Everything started with a bicycle tour that began at Tel Aviv airport. “We wanted to tour through the German Black Forest and didn’t think there would be any problems with the bike in the airplane”, Omer Libchik recalls with a smile. The staff at the airport was surprised but in the end agreed, and so Omer and his friend were allowed to take their bikes with them on the plane.
Having arrived in Freiburg, the spontaneous Israeli fell in love with the landscape of the German Southwest. He decided to return to Baden-Württemberg to do his Master´s degree in Tübingen following his military service and his Bachelor´s double degree in psychology and biology at Tel Aviv University. The International Master’s Course in Neural and Behavioural Sciences is highly renowned with a tradition that began almost ten years ago. Omer is enthusiastic: “In Tübingen we really receive an excellent education which gives us great chances to get good jobs. Small classes and individual supervision through the professors are a big advantage of the Master’s classes”, Omer comments.
There is a spatial separation from the University, but Omer deliberately joined the social activities and the offerings for students in Tübingen. His aim is to participate in the student life of the traditional university town, the home of Friedrich Hölderlin and Ludwig Uhland, the Alma Mater of Martin Walser and Alois Alzheimer.
The Graduate School of Neural and Behavioural Sciences, as part of the International Max Planck Research School, offers a research-oriented, multidisciplinary program that links basic science and clinical research. Lectures, courses and laboratory trainings are provided by scientists whose research interests are in various aspects of neurosciences. Omer works on the behaviour of worms. His project tries to verify a computer-based numerical model which simulates the behaviour of worms in case of danger.
Although his course is completely taught in English, Omer speaks German very well. He believes that intercultural life needs the respective languages for proper communication. “It is just a better feeling if I sit at my favourite place at the Neckar River and can talk to the people sitting next to me. I just love being exposed to other cultures”, says Omer who had been in South America for five months after finishing his military service.
Thinking about his time after Graduate School, the 27-year old has not quite made up his mind, his international experience has opened up more options for him: “It would be nice to find an appropriate job in Israel – but maybe it will be even nicer to do a PhD here in Tübingen. The Max Planck Research School is definitely interested in keeping us here”. Healthy prospects for Omer Libchik, a young man who is always on the point of departure.
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