Sentences with phrase «postdoc positions as»

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Even though they do not serve as professors, researchers who pursue other academic paths note that their intensive training — in grad school, postdoc appointments, and other experiences — prepares them uniquely for the challenges of their new positions.

The postdoc position was hard - fought, especially as an underrepresented minority in science, and her career path had a few redirects already.

You should see an academic position (postdoc, associate professor) just as a regular job.

«Few astronomers, especially women, follow the traditional path that we're all taught as students: a Ph.D. followed by one or two postdocs in different places, and then a permanent position,» she says.

According to the 2010 Science Careers postdoc survey, PIs may view the postdoc years mainly as an opportunity for young scientists to improve research skills, but more and more postdocs are seeking to position themselves for their future careers.

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.

When it came time to find a postdoc, I was fortunate to land a position as an annotator at the Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1996.

The postdoc provides a reservoir of very well - qualified candidates for academic positions, and other professional positions as well.

Having completed his postdoc in 1983, Bowen took a position as a biology professor at Brown University.

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.

One year of funding could also be added at the end of the traditional 4 - year PhD, during which newly graduated researchers would gain extra lab experience while being covered financially as a bridge to their first postdoc position.

Alas postdocs are also not immune to such periods of unpaid work or even career interruptions, because even though the starting date for a new position tends to be close to the allocation of the grant, the FJI reports delays as long as 8 months before the names of the grant - holders are actually announced.

In my fourth year as a postdoc, I was excited to be offered a university faculty position.

«Generally,... there is little recognition of young researchers» by their permanent peers, says Marie Boichu, who won a permanent position in the Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique in Lille after 6 years as a postdoc.

But as Stacy Gelhaus, a postdoc in Ian Blair's lab at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, found out, there are many small ways that traditional postdocs can gain some early autonomy and, in the long run, prepare themselves for an independent position.

So as she neared the end of her Ph.D. in 2005, she focused her attention on opportunities and postdoc positions that could lead her to a clinical or drug - development position down the line.

The years under postdocs as these individuals seek permanent positions have stretched.

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.»

An assistant professor who wrote her first successful R01 when she was still a postdoc, Suter believes that «young investigators who are in the position to make that transition to independence with their first R01,» and who recently submitted a proposal that was «very well - crafted and very well - received by their study sections but still couldn't meet pay lines,» will get a second look as funding agencies focus on applications that are already in - house.

As a postdoc at Georgia Institute of Technology, he was thrust into a position where he had to supervise students in their research group.

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.

You need to be in a position where you can talk freely about the scientific merits of your previous project, the skills you can bring to the next company, and what you gained from your postdoc (as well as some documentation to back this all up).

As postdocs, we see our first permanent position as the last hurdlAs postdocs, we see our first permanent position as the last hurdlas the last hurdle.

This means that more and more people work as postdocs for longer periods of time, on a series of short - term contracts, often in a number of different countries, before they will — or will not — transition to a group leader position.

You can of course get a postdoc position without obtaining your own grant first by simply applying to job adverts in journals, but obviously you don't have as much choice as to where you end up.

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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.

It is a common belief that as long as the university is attracting quality applicants for postdoc positions, there is no compelling reason to change the status quo.

Make sure you are both willing and capable to accomplish the caliber of work as a postdoc [needed] to transition to a tenure - track position.»

McDowell will also be «continuing efforts to collaborate with other groups,» such as the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, which proposed at its Sustainability Summit in February a project to catalog, categorize, and clarify the titles that universities use for postdoc positions.

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.

After completing her Ph.D. in Italy, she accepted a position as a postdoc in Strasburg, France.

Investment in personal development and career enhancement while individuals are in postdoc positions will clearly benefit a university if an individual stays in academia — but it should also be seen as a university's contribution to national well - being if a postdoc chooses to move out of academia to pursue other opportunities.

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.

After 2 years as a postdoc, Musial - Siwek went back on the job market, and an offer for an industry position came in before the re-entry grant funding ended.

«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.

But the trend towards employing postdocs for positions traditionally given to single degree holders was not as strong as expected considering the large number of postdocs looking for jobs, says Paul Leonard of the CIA.

I accepted, but as this position started the following year, I stayed on in Lyon and applied to a new competitive scheme of fellowships that the University of Sydney has established to attract international postdocs.

It paid off, as did his postdoc position at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado.

While discovery - type positions tend to be filled by postdocs and graduate students, people who perform drug formulation research and contract manufacturing at places like the universities of Kentucky, Iowa, and Maryland often take permanent positions as group leaders, supervisors, or technicians, Mayer adds.

With most permanent researchers in the survey having a tenured position and most researchers on temporary contracts being postdocs, many factors, such as experience and age, could explain these differences in productivity, Siobhan Phillips, a senior science officer at ESF who was the survey methodology adviser and lead author, says in an email to Science Careers.

There are postdocs whose positions are ending this next year, who would have applied to these programs to get started as independent planetary scientists.

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).

Their average age is 34.6 years, and on average they spent just 5 years as postdocs — interesting statistics for anyone who believes that finding an independent position is impossible these days.

In 2000, 9 years and three postdocs later, Wellington earned a position as assistant professor at the University of British Columbia, where she studies genes that regulate cholesterol metabolism and examines their role in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's.

According to Michael B. Amey, Johns Hopkins University's assistant dean for research administration, even though some JHU postdocs are classified as employees, «the only postdocs who would be allowed to submit an independent research grant proposal (as opposed to a fellowship grant) would be those who had been offered faculty positions that would begin no later than the proposed start date of the grant proposal.»

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.

His ambition had been to get an academic position, but he watched his friends who had been postdocs ahead of him as they went into similar positions and gave up doing experimental science in favor of managing their labs.

«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.

And 14 percent and 12 percent of former and current postdocs looked for nontenure - track positions as research scientists.