Sentences with phrase «as postdocs for»

This means that more and more people work as postdocs for longer periods of time, on a series of short - term contracts, often in a number of different countries, before they will — or will not — transition to a group leader position.

Most are stranded as postdocs for 5 or even 10 years before they have a shot at tenure.

Staff developer Robert Daley of the University of Leicester, U.K., worked as a postdoc for 7 1/2 years before deciding to pursue another path.

She worked as a postdoc for a while.

Oehzelt is presently conducting research with Dr. Georg Heimel as a postdoc for Prof. Norbert Koch, who works at the Humboldt - Universität zu Berlin and the Helmholtz - Zentrum Berlin.

After graduation, he worked as a postdoc for Scattering and Thermophysics Group, Materials Science and Technology Division, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Not exact matches

The troops had about as much sympathy for the demonstrators as a small - town boy from Alabama might have for a Harvard postdoc.»

Requiring universities and other research institutions to regularly collect, analyze, and disseminate data on career outcomes as a condition for receiving NIH funding, so that postdocs have a realistic idea about their prospects.

As you progress through your career, you'll find that the mentoring you received as a graduate student and postdoc and the networks you developed as a young scientist will provide both a firm foundation and a strong scaffolding for your career to groAs you progress through your career, you'll find that the mentoring you received as a graduate student and postdoc and the networks you developed as a young scientist will provide both a firm foundation and a strong scaffolding for your career to groas a graduate student and postdoc and the networks you developed as a young scientist will provide both a firm foundation and a strong scaffolding for your career to groas a young scientist will provide both a firm foundation and a strong scaffolding for your career to grow.

Even though they do not serve as professors, researchers who pursue other academic paths note that their intensive training — in grad school, postdoc appointments, and other experiences — prepares them uniquely for the challenges of their new positions.

And, she told me, at least one of her lab mates also interviewing for postdocs was asked about the negligence as well.

One was Nathan VanderKraats, a former postdoc who told everyone how much he now enjoys his job as a data scientist and technical lead at... wait for it... Monsanto.

This singular focus on research arises from a longstanding funding model that uses students and postdocs as inexpensive labor on professors» grant projects while neglecting their own professional development, which leads to another question McNutt posed: Should federal and state governments consider new models for financing research?

(It's also worth noting that, according to the 2010 SDR, 11 % of postdocs in the life sciences and 17 % in the physical sciences reported lack of other employment as their primary reason for doing a postdoc.)

by Ireena Dutta, 27 July 2001 Doubtful that the many positive and valuable experiences she had as a Ph.D. candidate would be sufficient to compensate for the lack of job security and the demanding hours of research, Ireena Dutta decided against continuing with a postdoc.

On their website, the coalition institutions «commit» to gathering and publishing data on admissions and matriculation; median time to and percentage of degree completion; student and postdoc demographics; median time spent as postdocs; and, most importantly from the standpoint of those considering scientific training, «career outcomes for PhD and postdoctoral alumni, classified by job sector and career type.»

As a result, the NASEM report's authors argue, postdoc training is haphazard and PIs have little incentive to prepare these young scientists for independent research careers.

After spending approximately 2 decades completing a master's degree, stints as a research assistant and research associate at WHOI in Massachusetts, a Ph.D. in biological oceanography at Oregon State University, and returning to WHOI for a postdoc and various other roles, Baumgartner is now an associate scientist with tenure, a title he earned in 2014.

Although written for postdocs, the messages are entirely relevant to your situation as your strengths and successes are also in research.

I could stay in the lab for another two years as a postdoc, a lab manager, and a technician, i.e as a half god.

So I kept looking for things I felt would make an impact that would help people.I ended up working as a postdoc with Judah Folkman, a surgeon at Boston Children's Hospital.

Yoder says that although he didn't hesitate in taking on his LGBTQA project, which he began as a postdoc, he has definitely considered potential negative consequences for his image as a scientist.

Pictured (left to right): Seated, Soroush Vosoughi, a postdoc at the Media Lab's Laboratory for Social Machines; Sinan Aral, the David Austin Professor of Management at MIT Sloan; and Deb Roy, an associate professor of media arts and sciences at the MIT Media Lab, who also served as Twitter's Chief Media Scientist from 2013 to 2017.

He was prepared to speak eloquently and at length about any of his experiences as a postdoc in the Walling Lab, for example.

In the 2012 Science Careers postdoc survey, respondents rated opportunities and support for career advancement and funding as the two most important ingredients for a successful postdoctoral experience.

According to the 2010 Science Careers postdoc survey, PIs may view the postdoc years mainly as an opportunity for young scientists to improve research skills, but more and more postdocs are seeking to position themselves for their future careers.

As Horsley tells her mentees looking for graduate and postdoc labs, no lab is perfect.

The nub of both issues is that the university faculty members running independent labs and competing for grants to support their research depend on graduate students and postdocs as highly skilled but low - paid labor to carry out the work.

Gaining independence as a postdoc is a critical factor for future academic success, and dedicated fellowships and junior investigator programs may help young scientists make the leap.

As chair of the PSA, I served as the postdoc representative on the UC Davis Graduate Council, the academic faculty committee responsible for postdocAs chair of the PSA, I served as the postdoc representative on the UC Davis Graduate Council, the academic faculty committee responsible for postdocas the postdoc representative on the UC Davis Graduate Council, the academic faculty committee responsible for postdocs.

After 4 years for a bachelor's degree, 6 for a Ph.D., and several more as a postdoc, who knows whether your chosen field will still be vibrant?

New Ideas In his own part - time role as postdoc director, Lipscomb manages departmental awards and activities and «serves as liaison for postdocs with faculty,» Autry says.

One answer lies in providing postdocs and Ph.D. students with empowering experiences as an integral part of their intellectual development: to think boldly and imaginatively, to discover the enormous value of their discipline and to recognize the many audiences and outlets for their expertise.

But Shair did not name Arefolov as an inventor on the relevant patents, meaning that Arefolov hasn't seen any of the financial benefits he had hoped for when he traded in his industry job for a much lower - paying postdoc position.

«Nowadays, the postdoc is serving as a springboard for many other careers,» Yamamoto said.

I was obviously really disappointed to be rejected and, as my postdoc contract was coming to an end, started looking for other possible career options.

My first duty as chair was to seek contact with and recognition by the Office of the President and two UC - wide committees responsible for postdoc policy and practices: the Coordinating Committee on Graduate Affairs (CCGA), which handles academic affairs, and the Council of Graduate Deans (CoGD), which deals with administrative affairs.

«There is a risk that as a postdoc you are not even free to go for job interviews or give a seminar on what you've been working on because of proprietary information — it can become a nightmare,» he advises.

After completing his postdoc, Sören Dürr worked as a consultant for an oil company in Norway, but then he left research science to become a grant administrator at the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).

A number of support programs have been initiated, from internationally focused degree programs and Graduiertenkollegs (specialized research groups for Ph.D. candidates and postdocs) to a new standardized test of German as foreign language.

This type of offering is a «win - win» for the postdoc, TTO, and university, says Susalka, because the intern / postdoc can then serve as an «ambassador» in his or her home department and share their experience to help peers in their own patenting and commercialization pursuits.

For newly minted Ph.D. s as well as postdocs considering jobs in industry, that frequently may be the question.

The postdoc provides a reservoir of very well - qualified candidates for academic positions, and other professional positions as well.

The plight of early - career scientists has come in for exceptional scrutiny in recent weeks as three major scientific institutions each released a report on the postdoc system.

Danielle Salha says that the ability to publish her vaccine research was a priority for her when she joined the multinational company Aventis Pasteur as a postdoc a year ago.

Postdoc at the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen Pia Snitkjaer has carried out a series of experiments with alcohol in liquid dishes to figure out how to control the alcohol content during cooking for the benefit of large kitchens, the food industry, the gastronomy and restaurant sector as well as in the kitchen at home.

But «as of now, and in what's pending before Congress for» 05, there's nothing specific that changes any of the things we're doing currently» concerning postdocs.

Postdocs need «to know what's in store for them as assistant and associate professors and... what the expectations are,» Kay says.

Alicia Löffler, associate provost for innovation and new ventures at Northwestern University, recalls a case where a postdoc wanted to delve into commercialization, but the PI was not as «enthused.»

But for the thousands of postdocs employed on NIH PI grants, prospects under the CR looked much less certain as NIH announced plans to fund grant renewals below their original amounts, «generally up to 80 % of the previously committed level,» according the NIH Web site — a move that would put intense pressure on principal investigators to economize.