Sentences with phrase «of staff scientist positions»

The extent to which the number of staff scientist positions will continue increasing remains to be seen, but the role can offer an appealing option for those who want to stay close to research while also expanding their skills and responsibilities.

With the small number of tenure - track faculty positions available and the large number of Ph.D. holders in career limbo, many are advocating for increased numbers of staff scientist positions.

High on his list is the creation of a staff scientist position for researchers who love the bench but don't want to deal with the added responsibilities that come with assistant professorships.

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«I think it's part of the problematic labor conditions found in academia today,» where in order to stay in science you must become a group leader, given that the staff scientist position has almost entirely disappeared.

Moreover, these staff scientists, as Solomon sees it, would hold high - caliber positions with all of the health care and retirement benefits offered to other staff at their institution.

In many ways, the staff scientist position offers the opportunity to grow and learn while preserving the high points of research that can get lost in the grind of leading a lab.

Last year, French immunologist Amélie Bigorgne got the job she always wanted: a permanent staff scientist position at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM).

To reduce the surplus of young scientists seeking faculty posts and thus help to ease the crisis, the article proposed creating ««nonreplicating» staff scientist positions... as part of a legitimate career track.»

Such training best prepares young scientists to fill specialist positions, such as technician, permanent postdoc, and staff scientist — not necessarily to perform all the tasks needed to conduct studies of their own and eventually become a PI.

One alternative option to creating staff scientist positions, Walsh and Lee argue in their email, would be to resist the current pressures toward the bureaucratization of science.

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.

As we've reported what seems like countless times, numerous reports and studies on postdocs» plight have called for raising their pay to the neighborhood of $ 50,000 and reducing their numbers (while creating more staff scientist positions).

Tilghman, Rockey, and the others in the working group laid out several recommendations aimed at shortening and diversifying doctoral programs and postdoc positions, increasing the proportion of trainees supported by training grants and fellowships instead of research grants, collecting more data on career outcomes, improving postdoc salaries, and promoting the staff scientist career path.

If the number of postdocs drops as a result of raising postdoc salaries, staff scientists could fill the gap, which should help attract talented scientists to these positions.

He became a staff scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and then assumed a faculty position in the Department of Pathology at the LSU Health Sciences Center in 1995.

Creating more staff scientist positions will be an ongoing challenge because long - held traditions create cultural barriers to change, and limited funding reinforces the use of more affordable postdocs.

Faculty members and institutions, for their part, should realize that the position of staff scientist does not imply a lack of scientific drive or disinterest in professional advancement and should strive to promote and nurture more of these positions.

Shortly before President Donald J. Trump's inauguration, his staff confirmed that he had met with two brilliant and pugnacious scientists, each said to be a candidate for the position of science adviser or director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.