Sentences with phrase «fewer postdocs positions»

Delayed retirements ripple down the academic chain, said Weibl, forcing postdocs to remain in their secure positions, leading to fewer postdocs positions open for newly minted PhDs.

We asked committee Chair Petsko to comment, in an e-mail interview, on whether the committee intended to imply that there should be fewer postdoc positions.

The number of postdocs surprised me because there were very few postdoc positions in Japan at that time.

Not exact matches

The postdoc position was hard - fought, especially as an underrepresented minority in science, and her career path had a few redirects already.

There are very few open positions for professor compared to the amount of PhDs and postdocs produced every year.

«Few astronomers, especially women, follow the traditional path that we're all taught as students: a Ph.D. followed by one or two postdocs in different places, and then a permanent position,» she says.

These fortunate few work not at universities but in training positions in industry, national laboratories, and other government entities, and they constitute about 11 % of the nation's postdocs, the report states.

The case of the disappearing postdocs 09 December 2015 Fewer young scientists are choosing to take postdoc positions, according to recent data

Not many scientists have the audacity to change research directions in the early stages of their independent research career, and fewer still have the courage to leave a tenure - track position for a postdoc.

The latest numbers from the Washington, D.C. - based Computing Research Association's annual Taulbee Survey, which tracks employment statistics for new Ph.D. computer scientists, show that last year fewer grads in the «Informatics: biomedical / other science» category took postdoc positions; instead, more took positions in industry, says survey director Stuart Zweben.

«There's no way I'd be interested in an industry position,» a third - year postdoc told me a few months ago after an afternoon career workshop.

But a few holdouts argue that such a limit could compromise the financial flexibility of principal investigators (PIs) and positions could disappear because the PI can not afford to pay the postdoc salary at the minimum level.

In fact, due to government cuts, positions for postdocs in academia are now fewer than they have been in the past.

Through decisions made haphazardly 60 years ago, «we chose as a country to staff our labs primarily with graduate students and postdocs and a few non-tenured staff people, while other countries have permanent ways of staffing their labs,» often with PhD staff scientists in career positions, says Georgia State University economist Paula Stephan, an authority on the academic labor force.

The reality, Shamp says, is that fewer than 40 % of the postdocs working in biotechnology in North Carolina will wind up in a tenure - track academic position.

After a successful postdoc at the University of Wisconsin (UW), Madison, she ignored several job opportunities in the United States to return to Poland, a country with significantly less funding and fewer top research positions.

The past few years, many postdocs at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) have obtained a permanent position in an unusual way: by suing their employer.

Postdocs argue that they usually have the skills required for an academic career, but there are just far too few positions available.

That fact leaves very few tenure - track positions available to postdocs, and leads to a system in which multiple postdocs are a fact of life.

One small footnote: Vul notes that his second postdoc supported by the CPS grant has taken a faculty position in India because U.S. visa rules require him to go back to his home country for a few years before trying to settle permanently in the United States.