Sentences with phrase «done as a postdoc»

How well you do as a postdoc will be critical to finding a job afterward.

«I realized I couldn't do everything myself, which is something you tend to do as a postdoc,» Finak says.

It's a thing I wouldn't have done as a postdoc, but felt it was a risk I was willing to take as a faculty member.

You're not going to make much more money than you did as a postdoc.

«He knew the work I did as a postdoc and my participation in the NPA,» Stevenson writes in an e-mail to Science Careers.

Not exact matches

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.

Clearly I need to get money coming in as soon as the postdoc is up (November 2002) otherwise I can't pay my mortgage.How do I get a job which will allow me to get money coming in, and still be a plus point in terms of experience in case I still want to continue in science?

(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.)

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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.

Personally, I didn't start looking at alternative careers until my second year as a postdoc.

Did you continue to do well when you reentered the lab as a postdoc / fellow?

How does the experience of doing a postdoc at a company such as MedImmune compare to doing one at a university?

When Eric Cornell started as a postdoc with Carl Wieman at JILA, an institute run jointly by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado in Boulder, in 1990 he did his best to transform their second - floor lab into a basement.

While I was having a great time as a postdoc, my by - then husband was doing well as an assistant professor.

«It's definitely important to reduce the postdoc period to get people moving on to their next career spot, especially if they're doing a postdoc as a default.

When deciding where to do your postdoc, pick a PI who will support you as an aspiring academic rather than treat you like «cheap labor at the service of a great project,» says physicist Pedro Miguel Echenique.

And though Hira did not mention it, tens of thousands of the scientists counted as employed are trapped in low - paying postdoc «training» jobs that economists have long recognized as effectively disguising unemployment.

But as a postdoc, no matter how you engage the realm of tech transfer, you should know that you will find more pluses than minuses there in terms of career opportunities, even if your plans don't involve being a full - time CEO.

When UCHC contested the right of its postdocs to organize, it did not question their status as employees.

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.

Science does not let go, and I start as a senior postdoc in this new company.

I had zero computer experience; in fact, I could barely type, but a postdoc in the lab helped me do a BLAST search using my gene's protein sequence as a query.

My philosophy is that PhD students and postdocs should go to as many meetings as they can stomach and take off as much time as they like, as long as they get the work done, according to their own schedules.

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.

With a population as diffuse as postdoctoral scholars, does the institution have adequate assurance that patent agreements are being signed, that conflict of interest and other mandated reporting is being carried out, that risk management and liability needs are covered, and that postdocs are not falling through administrative cracks?

When you finish your Ph.D., you might want to continue doing research as a postdoc.

On the contrary, large companies in Canada do not view their postdoctoral programs as recruitment tools and in many cases actively discourage the notion in their potential postdoc recruits.

Just as faculty members want to recruit the best doctoral students, so, too, do PIs seek blue - chip postdocs.

While I thought no one could work harder than my colleagues and I did as graduate students and postdocs, young lawyers work very hard.

Meet any potential supervisor face to face but don't forget to have a beer with their students and postdocs as well.

For most postdocs, «a lot of the skills and techniques and expertise that you need for that project to succeed are already established [in the lab], whereas if you start off as an independent postdoc, it may be that you want to do something that you don't have very much experience with, so you then need to either seek outside help or get these things set up on your own,» Stolt - Bergner says.

«I earn $ 32,000 now as a postdoc» — the truth — «but I don't see that a postdoc salary has much to do with a starting salary in industry; wouldn't you agree?»

One can enter this profession as many of the CARE advisers did, from our personal experience as a scientist — which varies from a degree in psychology to a Ph.D. or a postdoc in the natural sciences.

«I don't know anyone who's gotten a job who spent their postdoc at the bench the whole time,» says Crystal Icenhour, who was recently hired as vice president and director of research at IDX Labs, a startup in Charlottesville, Virginia.

That's a problem, as U.S. graduate students must analyze real data to graduate, and postdocs must do so, too, to have any chance of advancing.

The memo does not mention postdocs, but it opens the way for those making major scientific contributions to projects to receive the official acknowledgement as full - fledged independent researchers that has traditionally been the exclusive prerogative of faculty members.

Now seeking work «outside the traditional academic sector,» preferably in public health policy, Srinivasan finds that some potential employers «don't believe» all that she accomplished as a postdoc.

Indeed, most institutions will not even allow postdocs to serve as co-PIs on research grant applications — although some do — let alone as full PIs.

If, as seems to be the case, a fraction of scarce tenure - track faculty jobs go to «postdocs» who already have funding, then institutions that don't allow postdocs to apply for grants put their postdocs at a disadvantage.

Demiralp was on the verge of doing a postdoc with Barrett after she had served as one of his Ph.D. advisers.

Second, by comparing the number of faculty in the field to the number doing a postdoc — which besides being a training phase also serves as a holding pattern for scientists waiting and hoping for faculty jobs — we can get an idea of whether Ph.D. scientists have access to other career options they deem acceptable.

At the University of Pennsylvania's PENN Postdoctoral Opportunities in Research and Teaching (PENN - PORT) program, which just had its 5 - year IRACDA grant renewed for a second term, first - year postdocs spend about 85 % of their time doing mentored research and about 15 % taking pedagogy classes and preparing to teach at one of three minority - serving institutions nearby: Lincoln University, which is recognized as the United States» first historically black university, in unincorporated southern Pennsylvania; Delaware County Community College (DCCC), which is in Pennsylvania; and Rutgers University, Camden, in New Jersey.

While your years as a Ph.D. student or postdoc are the most decisive in your career, do not confuse working hard with working all the time.

She is a professor of social psychology and neuroscience at Northeastern University in Boston, and like many scientists with large, active research labs, she watches with dismay as some Ph.D. s and postdocs struggle to find a secure job, as she did 2 decades ago.

«Having a working spouse in graduate school or as a postdoc can be a tremendous advantage since you're no longer trying to make do on the single, low - level salary,» says Rich, an engineer.

While graduate students had less apparent impact than postdocs on overall publication counts, they increased the likelihood of publications in these high - impact journals just as much as postdocs did.

Well, not only does postdoc dissatisfaction have an impact on current research productivity, it may have far - reaching consequences as well.

What do aspiring scientists look for as they choose a university for graduate school or a postdoc?

So you can be a postdoc, but you can also do a postdoc, which unfortunately isn't as sexual as it sounds.