Dr. Christian Schlögl is the managing director / scientific coordinator of the Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition, a joint research network of the German Primate Center and the University of Göttingen. He is also the coordinator of the Collaborative Research Centre- Cognition of Interaction. He is responsible for the budget and the management of the internal funding programmes, coordination of the scientific programme and the training programme for early career researchers. He will talk about his career path and what a science management career entails.