Sentences with phrase «independent postdoc position»

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A young scientist doing a postdoc in his Ph.D. lab is wondering whether he should make a move and, if so, whether it should be to another postdoc position or a more independent one.

New programs offering postdocs sufficient funding and lab space for them to start an independent minigroup have multiplied, especially in Europe, where the launch of the Starting Grants by the European Research Council has prompted the creation of more junior - PI - like positions.

But as Stacy Gelhaus, a postdoc in Ian Blair's lab at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, found out, there are many small ways that traditional postdocs can gain some early autonomy and, in the long run, prepare themselves for an independent position.

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 program works like this: Full - time faculty members with independent research programs (postdocs are not eligible) apply via the program's Web site; researchers holding equivalent positions in industry of nonacademic labs may also apply.

The program's objective is to get the most promising and scientifically mature young scientists from all over the United States into independent research positions immediately after graduate school, skipping the postdoc.

The reason some hiring managers are more critical of industry postdocs is that a number of smaller biotech companies consider positions at the postdoc level to be «cheap pairs of hands» jobs and not independent research positions.

«In the US I could have tried to apply for grants while still working as a postdoc, and I would have moved to an independent position once I had some money secured.

There are postdocs whose positions are ending this next year, who would have applied to these programs to get started as independent planetary scientists.

Their average age is 34.6 years, and on average they spent just 5 years as postdocs — interesting statistics for anyone who believes that finding an independent position is impossible these days.

According to Michael B. Amey, Johns Hopkins University's assistant dean for research administration, even though some JHU postdocs are classified as employees, «the only postdocs who would be allowed to submit an independent research grant proposal (as opposed to a fellowship grant) would be those who had been offered faculty positions that would begin no later than the proposed start date of the grant proposal.»

In many academic disciplines, a postdoc is a step toward a faculty position, designed to build new skills and develop an independent research program to take onto the tenure track.