Not exact matches
You should
see an academic position (
postdoc, associate professor) just as a regular
job.
But Shair did not name Arefolov as an inventor on the relevant patents, meaning that Arefolov hasn't
seen any of the financial benefits he had hoped for when he traded in his industry
job for a much lower - paying
postdoc position.
It was the beginning of an odyssey that has
seen the birth of three children, a tenure - track
job for Elhai at Florida International University, a monthly airline commute to Boston for Chiu's
postdoc, and now a shared laboratory at the University of Richmond, where Elhai teaches.
«We looked into a lot of
postdoc programs around and
saw [that one of the major problems] is the perpetual
postdoc situation, where folks can't find a
job, so they hang on and it turns... exploitative,» he says.
Morris
sees the clarification as a positive sign because it «shows that NIH knows this is an issue, that
postdocs and grad students are not getting specific instruction in soft skills such that they can transition successfully to their next
jobs» — whatever those
jobs may be.
Over two recent days, Eliasmith reports, he
saw ads on the comp - neuro mailing list for 24
postdoc and assistant professor
jobs from across North America.
Scientists filled about 58 % of the ARRA - supported
jobs, with
postdocs, information technologists, and other staff taking the rest (
see graph), according to the PI survey.
HHMI does, however, expect to
see its investigators» former
postdocs in
jobs that use their scientific training: «in a government lab, research institute, or the commercial sector, doing something in biotech or the pharmaceutical industry.