«Now, I have good hopes for
another postdoc position I applied for recently,» he says.
Not exact matches
In fact, I am considering
applying for positions — a
postdoc in the Office of Technology Transfer at NIH, a patent examiner with the USPTO, and a technical specialist at a law firm — and perhaps
for a fellowship related to intellectual property law or science policy.
In conclusion, SPIRE has given me opportunities to obtain skills and experiences not available to every
postdoc before
applying for an academic
position.
'' SPIRE will provide the skills and opportunities that should separate me from the majority of other
postdocs applying for academic
positions in the future.»
Plant biologist Romain Pierron, who at the time of the survey had a 1 - year contract as a tech transfer officer, went through two periods of unemployment — one between the end of his doctoral contract and his defense in 2015, and another as he was
applying for positions the following year — before recently taking a 2 - year
postdoc at the Stellenbosch University in South Africa.
These could allow PhD students to start
applying for postdoc positions before the completion of their thesis, and the acceleration of the applications» selection.
Many
postdocs tell themselves that if they don't land a job at a top research institution, then they'll just
apply for a teaching
position.
«In the US I could have tried to
apply for grants while still working as a
postdoc, and I would have moved to an independent
position once I had some money secured.
Recently, foreigners have been allowed to take admission exams to become faculty members in Brazil's federal universities, Copelli notes — but, «currently, all examinations in the country, including those to
apply for a
postdoc or faculty
position, have to be done in Portuguese,» he says.
Always keep in mind that
postdocs and postdoctoral
positions are a dime a dozen — you have little to lose in
applying some strong personal lobbying
for what you want.
«It was never my intention to stay in the U.S.,» Guttal says — so after the
postdoc, he
applied for assistant professorship
positions at several institutions in India, received offers from three, and selected IISc
for a research environment that he describes as rich, diverse, and friendly to interdisciplinary work like his.
Each of us has different personal circumstances that result in us taking more or less time to complete a Ph.D. /
postdoc or to
apply for a group leader
position.
Alexandra Surcel, a cell biologist, was in the early part of her
postdoc,
applying for fellowships and developing her research while strategizing on how to secure two academic
positions in one city, one
for her and one her husband.
As I wrote in my first Next Wave article, I was deciding between continuing along the academic path — doing a
postdoc and
applying for faculty
positions — and moving over into industry and accepting a research or management
position there.
Six months into Dr. Lahav's second
postdoc, at Harvard's Bauer Center
for Genomics Research, the Systems Biology department at Harvard Medical School was formed and she was asked to
apply for a faculty
position there.
When I first
applied for the
position, I was a genetics
postdoc living in DC.