Sentences with phrase «junior researchers»

The opportunity to «ask senior scientists for advice» and to share experiences with other junior researchers in the process of establishing themselves can make the transition to independence much easier.

This article explores how three advocates for junior researchers are working to improve conditions for young scientists.

We have 3 - month - long programs that bring together a mix of senior and junior researchers from several disciplines.

We hope our story inspires other junior researchers and academic organizations to follow suit in improving working conditions for all.

I like being part of a team and have trained more junior researchers.

In a way, the distinction is moot: Regardless of our exact legal status, junior researchers still do academic research — our professional work.

Our scientists have a successful record developing junior researchers into well - versed professionals through education in unique technologies and hands - on laboratory experiences.

Dedicated junior researchers need room to develop their ideas, to plan experiments, to refine their grasp of concepts, to formulate problems and to write up their results.

In the same agency, I have worked as Junior Researcher from April 2014 to December 2015.

But over the last decade or so, junior researchers at MPG (and other German research organizations) have confronted a profound inequality in professional status and salary compensation.

Discussions about the working conditions of junior researchers seemed promising, but they led to no tangible improvement; at first, the MPG administration seemed to deny the existence of the problem.

Liang Fu, an assistant professor of physics, was honored with the New Horizons in Physics Prize, which is awarded to promising junior researchers who have already produced important work in fundamental physics.

Larry Guth, an MIT professor of mathematics, was honored with the New Horizons in Mathematics Prize, which is given to promising junior researchers who have already produced important work in mathematics.

The BMBF plans to support two additional junior researchers groups, with a total sum of about?

iCubed seeks to make a strong impact in the fields of immunology, microbiology, and vaccinology both locally, in Rhode Island and beyond, by providing junior researchers with opportunities to learn from our institute's most skilled scientists.

Join other junior researchers on June 14 for the 2nd YoungEHA Research Meeting in Stockholm, Sweden.

These events follow on a letter providing detailed recommendations on protecting junior researchers that the union for postdocs — the United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, UAW Local 5810 — sent in January to the office of the president of the University of California and the chair of the University of California Academic Senate.

At Microsoft, «I managed junior researchers, similar to Ph.D. students,» he says.

But one could just as easily fill a column with bad - student horror stories: tales of junior researchers playing online Scrabble, forgetting positive controls, and licking everything in the lab.

But in European academia, junior researchers often effectively get fired, even if they do a good job, because another position is not available for them either because of poor advanced planning and funding or because of a fixed junior - to - senior ratio within an institution.

Junior researchers trying to establish their own niche may want to focus on the less studied species, even if they are not as glamorous, Lorenzen says — as long as the research question is important.

At least in principle, «[i] n many situations [submitting a Registered Report] should only be a good thing for junior researchers because it alleviates the pressure to get «good results,»» writes Sam Schwarzkopf, a neuroscientist at University College London in the United Kingdom, in an email to Science Careers.

But they say Hare's use of legal threats has at best subverted the peer review process that is the crux of modern scientific progress, and could at worst encourage junior researchers in the field of forensic psychology to pursue other lines of research.

The $ 1.65 million grants, administered by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and endowed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, are awarded to top - rank junior researchers from abroad.

The group had been tasked with looking into growing concerns about the diminishing academic job prospects and funding available to junior researchers hoping to establish independent research careers in the United States.

What we have, as expressed in our mission statement, is a goal to»... improve the UNC experience for postdoctoral fellows by fostering a sense of community among junior researchers, facilitating communication with the university, and promoting the professional development of all UNC postdoctoral fellows.»

«For the first time, we were able to precisely and accurately detect how many molecules actually were grafted to the surface of the graphene,» reports junior researcher Felix Rösicke, who investigated this problem for his doctoral dissertation.

A recent survey from the European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers found that money issues are the most critical concerns for young researchers in Europe, ahead of working conditions, training, and supervision.

The Prize includes special categories to honour junior researchers (New Horizons) and lifetime achievements.

Josh founded Meridian because he wanted to provide an option for secondary students that valued their ideas, understood their need to be useful members of their communities, and welcomed them as junior researchers within and across the disciplines.

Responsible Conduct of Research for Junior Researchers In science, you have to be careful to be ethical.

In principle, it is a good idea, as the Habilitation, substantially a second doctoral thesis after the PhD thesis, delays scientific independence of junior researchers, thus creating intellectual dependency.

Over these years, I have appreciated how Jim has supported work of more junior researchers in the field and has pushed for educational policy research to be as relevant for and meaningful to the day - to - day world of children in schools.»

Talks will be also selected on scientific merit and will provide an opportunity for both principal investigators as well as junior researchers to present their exciting new data.

In the near future, the university is planning to establish within this project one of the new «junior researchers groups» («Nachwuchsgruppe»).

By the end of 2004, she had obtained a Senior Researcher Grade 1 (CR1) position at CNRS, along with an ATIP (Action Thématique et Incitative sur Programme) grant for junior researchers from the CNRS to continue her activities as group leader.

In Germany, junior researchers with contracts are legal employees.

«There's absolutely no way a junior researcher could launch a translational research career without this training,» she says, pointing out the benefits of everyday experience in a multidisciplinary team of scholars.

The Eurodoc Exchange series has already shown that Eurodoc — the «council for postgraduate students and junior researchers in Europe» — is widespread throughout the European Union.

The newly fair treatment of Ph.D. candidates will make the already excellent research environment at MPG all the more attractive to junior researchers.

This could be a junior researcher whom you have asked for more information on «how did you do it?»

As junior researchers, it is easy to feel powerless, but our tale illustrates how we can improve our working conditions if we rally together around a common goal and show strong and continuous engagement.

But junior researchers are often discouraged from voicing their concerns due to the power imbalance intrinsic to academia: The senior researchers who train us are not only our mentors, but they are also the professors who graduate us and the bosses who pay us and eventually recommend us for our next jobs.

Junior researchers can use it to document their accomplishments without depending on the good will of their supervisors.

The «natural experiment» of the NIH doubling, he added, produced both «good results» for research and a «crisis» that was «negative for junior researchers.»

None of the junior researchers Science Careers spoke to called for wholesale changes to the traditional system of employment, or thought that such changes were realistic.

Some of the charter's requirements intended for researchers, for example, highlight the importance of accountability, building supportive relationships with junior researchers, and engaging continuously in professional development.

Brian Nosek, COS executive director and a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville who studies the gap between research values and practices, also points out that using the Registered Report format can offer valuable feedback for junior researchers and help support their career development as they decide what research directions to pursue.