Surviving as a Postdoc 06 March 2013 Charmaine Tam Australian postdoc Charmaine Tam shares tips on how to make it through this early
phase of a research career.
Not exact matches
While the professional life
of Spanish academics broadly goes through the four traditional
phases of predoctoral researcher (Ayudante), postdoctoral researcher (Ayudante Doctor), lecturer, and finally permanent
research staff, it is early stage and transitional stage
career scientists which have been identified as the most vulnerable.
At the time
of his arrest, he was in what he calls a «very productive»
phase of his
career, overseeing nine
research projects, including work for Temple's Energy Frontier Research Center, which is funded by the Department of
research projects, including work for Temple's Energy Frontier
Research Center, which is funded by the Department of
Research Center, which is funded by the Department
of Energy.
Postdoctoral
research is the probably the most complex, stimulating, and harrowing
phase of a scientist's
career.
During the final
phase of my Ph.D., I realised that it would be important to gain
research experience abroad, in order to build a successful scientific
career.
The BRAIN Initiative K99 / R00 award is intended for individuals from diverse backgrounds (including nationally underrepresented groups) who are working in
research areas supported by the BRAIN Initiative, who have no more than five years
of postdoctoral
research experience, and who require at least 12 months
of mentored
research training and
career development (K99
phase) before transitioning to the independent
research (R00)
phase of the program.
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