Sentences with phrase «postdoc position»

He didn't get any faculty offers, but he received several offers for postdoc positions.
Instead, we find ourselves stuck in postdoc positions with few alternatives besides a long shot at a faculty position or a wholesale career change.
There is no shortage of postdoc positions on offer.
My first postdoc position started almost three long years ago.
The lab has also been a powerful launch pad for Ph.D. students to get postdoc positions.
Silver chose an industrial postdoc position because he ultimately wants to pursue a career in industry.
It wasn't until she started thinking about postdoc positions that she began to think about the potential conflicts between an academic career and her personal life.
There are several viable options, so you don't have to only look at industry; not all academic postdoc positions are fraught with the same issues that you have experienced.
You've just moved to this new postdoc position — packed all of your possessions and relocated to a new state in order to work with a particular research scientist.
Creating your own postdoc position also gives you some fine control over the future direction of your career.
I feel rather like a hired gun, waiting to see who will come up with the cash that will fund my next postdoc position.
Later, when I interviewed for postdoc positions, committee members had nothing positive to say.
If you have a doctorate and are looking for a research post, you might be interested in a research fellow or postdoc position with a university or other research organization.
Several of the report's conclusions and recommendations, however, seem to suggest that, at least in some fields, the number of postdoc positions should be reduced.
Applications for postdoc positions at high - powered academic labs go unanswered, maybe unread.
MiSciNet: A small number of minority scientists hold postdoc positions in national laboratories and academia.
Devi took postdoc positions at the Addiction Research Foundation in Palo Alto, California, and then at the Vollum Institute in Portland, Oregon.
Moving forward, he adds, special attention should be given to the vast majority of scientists who are making an important contribution to research but don't make it to stardom or may never have a chance to do so, including the growing proportion of scientists holding postdoc positions.
«There are a large number of independently funded postdoc positions, either funded by the Australian Research Council or National Health and Medical Research Council in Australia or other agencies overseas, and obtaining one of these fellowships is a great leg up.»
Further detailed information on degree and Ph.D. thesis work opportunities as well as open postdoc positions at IPP are available at the institute's Web page.
Do you want to spend several years in low - paying postdoc positions with only a small hope of eventually scoring a tenure - track professorship?
More and more PhDs, educated in a culture that has long viewed — and, in many places, still views — positions outside the academy not as valid career options for serious scientists but as «alternative employment» at best and «going over to the dark side» at worst, began accepting postdoc positions in the belief that additional publications would improve their chance to land that coveted faculty post.
Even so, many of Turkey's newly minted Ph.D. s eagerly seek postdoc positions in the United States because a year of research abroad is a prerequisite for tenure at some of Turkey's leading universities.
Of the younger generation of Indian bioscientists, a good number seek postdoc positions overseas, some of them seeking excellence and others believing that this will help jump - start their careers.
KI offers postdoc positions by fitting them under an allowed category, but it can only offer them for 2 - year stints.
Delayed retirements ripple down the academic chain, said Weibl, forcing postdocs to remain in their secure positions, leading to fewer postdocs positions open for newly minted PhDs.
«The extended training in temporary postdoc positions was blamed for so many of the problems we face in attaining a work - life balance,» Masters says.
He advocates going abroad or at least moving institutions for both graduate studies and postdoc positions as opposed to staying at your old institution, even for the brightest students.
With a PhD in his pocket, other postdoc positions followed in Invergowrie and Warwick, UK, and once more in Munich.
While I was doing my master's, I was very, very lucky to get a part - time postdoc position at UCSF.
As with many postdoc positions, is a fixed - term, temporary assignment, after which she plans to move back to her «real» home (outside California).
Upon finishing their postdocs in 1996, the duo was offered second postdoc positions at Bruce McNaughton and Carol Barnes's memory and hippocampus group at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
One way of achieving this would be to transform the existing 4000 fixed - term contract postdoc positions into full professorships instead of annihilating them.
After receiving her PhD from Sydney Brenner's department at the University of Cambridge in 1991, she undertook postdoc positions in London with Alison Goate (1991 - 92) and with John Hardy at the University of South Florida (1992 - 94).
After finishing his Ph.D. in 2003, Ansari planned to take a psychology postdoc position at Harvard University.
This is how many PhDs ended up in poor and unhappy postdoc positions in the first place.
What makes a MedImmune postdoc position different from the typical academic postdoc is the company's basic motive for discovery, says Lei - yun «Janney» Weng, who earned her Ph.D. at the Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, spent 3 years as a postdoc at the Baylor University medical school, and then followed her Baylor mentor when he moved to MedImmune.
It's OK to take a short postdoc position to buy time exploring alternative careers, but if you're serious about an academic career, you must identify the postdoc lab that will maximize your chances of long - term academic success.
If NIH ultimately requires tracking of former postdocs» whereabouts for a substantial number of years, and if the results are made available to the public, Ph.D. s deciding among postdoc positions would have valuable new information on the quality of the help they can expect in launching their careers.
So he went for a 3 - month postdoc position at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Munich, Germany, with the intention of spending every spare minute on his thesis.
These could allow PhD students to start applying for postdoc positions before the completion of their thesis, and the acceleration of the applications» selection.
With the Hubble Fellowship nearing its end, Bucciantini has secured another independent postdoc position.
However, career advice in the institute where I worked tended to be directed toward getting that prestigious postdoc position in the States.
After a PhD in Newcastle, UK, and a series of postdoc positions around Europe, he has finally found within academia the symbiosis between research and science policy he was looking for.
Mumma says he tries to protect the young people as much as possible, but «sometimes you just can't renew a student or postdoc position when the money simply isn't there.»
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