They can work almost anywhere,
including as a postdoc or contract researcher.
In the 1980s, Liu was a fellow at the University of California, San Francisco,
including as a postdoc under J. Michael Bishop, who with Harold Varmus shared a 1989 Nobel Prize.
Not exact matches
So in August 2010 he joined a group of friends,
including postdoc researchers Tim Koslowski, also at Perimeter, and Henrique Gomes at Imperial College London, to pick apart Barbour's writings just
as the young Barbour had once scrutinized Einstein's.
Perlstein's early independent pursuits
included renting a single bench at a facility in Berkeley, California, where he conducted his own research, which he describes
as a hybrid of a legacy project from his
postdoc and starting to develop what would eventually become PLab.
Those listed
as inventors
include a research associate currently in Shair's lab, two of Shair's former graduate students, and a former
postdoc from the lab.
In response to this challenge, Löffler and her team (
as well
as other institutions and their TTOs) have come up with creative funding mechanisms,
including fellowships supported by private companies and philanthropies, which provide
postdocs the freedom to chase entrepreneurial ambitions.
Our team
included several «insiders,»
postdocs who had been grad students at the University of Chicago and,
as a result, could provide the benefit of their experiences with administrative practices and institutional culture.
As you research, seek student organizations,
including postdoc clubs or committees at your own institution.
Major challenges
include convincing lab chiefs that higher paid staff scientists are
as good an investment of scarce grant dollars
as lower paid
postdocs or graduate students.
These
include the career counselor at your university, your
postdoc office, online resources such
as Science Careers, and the library.
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As Mervis writes in News & Analysis, NASA has blocked six Chinese scientists,
including Yale University
postdoc Ji Wang, from attending a conference held at NASA's Ames Research Center in California.
To fund workshops geared to students,
postdocs, and young researchers, the group draws on resources from regional and international government funding agencies [such
as the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)-RSB-, and international agencies
including UNESCO and the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.
Scientists who make lesser but still significant contributions to projects,
including postdocs and grad students, are also in line for greater recognition
as federal funding agencies switch from paper to electronic grant applications in the next few years.
Obsequious and self - effacing to superiors («I have so many papers I'm working on»), SciZ is rude, verbally abusive, and calculating with subordinates (
including sanitation and support staff,
as well
as postdocs like me).
However,
postdoc trainees who have been awarded an individual National Research Service Award (F32) or a nonfederal grant, or are supported by institutional training grants (T32), do not receive these benefits,
as these awards do not
include the necessary funds.
«The foreign students and
postdocs that have joined my lab —
including those from such places
as Iran, Palestine, Japan, Korea, and China — have not struggled in our environment,» says Summers.
Interviews with
postdocs include statements such
as: «Really everything depends on how you perform in the
postdocs,» and «It feels like I have to publish this next paper to still have bread to eat tomorrow.»
Those who favor such changes,
including forward - looking policy makers, administrators, and
postdocs themselves, need a strong advocate — such
as the NPA — to pressure these organizations to push these changes through.
«Studies like this one are extremely important to better understand scientific career [s],» notes Geuna, who recently edited a book on the global mobility of research scientists, although the study's results «might not be generalized to the population
as the sample
includes only «stars»» and excludes
postdocs.
Their program
includes a number of components, such
as an interdisciplinary training initiative that is designed to help
postdocs cross-train in clinical, epidemiological, or basic research.
Although committee members did not say there are plans to
include evaluations
as supportive documentation in federal fellowship grant submissions, the committee did suggest
postdocs sit «virtual exit interviews» to help determine «the quality of a
postdoc experience and to identify problems.»
Of a dozen characteristics that the survey provided, 96 percent of respondents regarded good mentoring —
including availability when
postdocs need advice, the provision of career guidance, and help in resolving problems —
as the most critical factor.
The overtime rule,
as we reported, requires that, come 1 December, many professional employees —
including postdocs — who earn less than $ 47,476 a year receive time - and - a-half overtime pay for every hour they work beyond 40 per week.
The FASEB Science Policy Committee carried out an informal survey of [11] institutions,
including a few government institutions, to determine provision of health benefits to
postdocs,
as well
as access to retirement programs,?
«With few exceptions, our
postdocs receive the exact same benefits
as everyone else at Gladstone, which
includes employer - paid medical, dental, and vision, and also covers eligible dependents or domestic partners,» said John LeViathan, postdoctoral fellows advisor and human resources manager.
Sources for help with these and other aspects of career planning and job hunting
include the
postdoc offices and career centers at some universities, campus
postdoc associations, and professional societies,
as well
as publications like Science's Next Wave.
For our part, the
Postdoc Network is working to enhance our online database of postdoc organizations to include more detailed information on compensation and employee benefit policies as well as best practices for both personnel and career development pr
Postdoc Network is working to enhance our online database of
postdoc organizations to include more detailed information on compensation and employee benefit policies as well as best practices for both personnel and career development pr
postdoc organizations to
include more detailed information on compensation and employee benefit policies
as well
as best practices for both personnel and career development programs.
The team — also
including Heather Jacobson and Anna Frebel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
as well
as former Carnegie
postdoc Josh Adams — studied five stars in Sculptor, measuring the abundance of 15 elements in each one.
Five women faculty from the university acted
as facilitators for over 30 young graduate students and
postdocs in the daylong workshop, and the attendance fee for the workshop
included a WISE membership and the handbook.
As a licensed M.D. you are, as you suggest, eligible for postdoctoral fellowships, including NIH's Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Postdoctoral Fellows; most people save their breath and call them postdoc NRSA
As a licensed M.D. you are,
as you suggest, eligible for postdoctoral fellowships, including NIH's Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Postdoctoral Fellows; most people save their breath and call them postdoc NRSA
as you suggest, eligible for postdoctoral fellowships,
including NIH's Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Postdoctoral Fellows; most people save their breath and call them
postdoc NRSAs.
The policies governing NIH grants, contained in a document called Office of Management and Budget Circular A-21, do not
include a broader impacts criterion, although PIs and
postdocs each have a «dual role»
as persons who are simultaneously both working on a specific research project and giving or receiving training, says Walter Schaffer, NIH senior scientific adviser for extramural research, in an interview with Science Careers.
This paper has 18 authors,
including four former UNLV Ph.D. students (He Gao, Ye Li, Hou - Jun Lü, and Bin - Bin Zhang) and three former UNLV
postdoc fellows (Wei - Hua Lei, Xue - Feng Wu, and En - Wei Liang)
as the key authors.
The topics for these blog posts
include 1) personal experience
as an international
postdoc, 2) benefits of taking the time to volunteer for committees, and 3) an update on the recent Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Toxicity Gordon Research Conference.
It was a full day of events, attended by 165 participants
including faculty, lab members,
postdocs, current and incoming graduate students,
as well
as administrative staff from the Division and the Center.
National conversations frequently
include discussion of the availability of «tenure - track» positions, because
postdocs continue to cite tenure - track positions
as their primary career aspiration.