Sentences with phrase «postdoc positions in»

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).

MiSciNet: A small number of minority scientists hold postdoc positions in national laboratories and academia.

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.

The number of postdocs surprised me because there were very few postdoc positions in Japan at that time.

Herman Lelieveldt holds a postdoc position in the Faculty of Business, Public Administration, and Technology of the University of Twente and is the executive director of the Netherlands Institute of Government.

A student of Rowbotham's who had just accepted a postdoc position in Raoult's lab in Marseille took the samples south with him.

I was approached by Alan Grossman, who organized a ride to Boston for me, where I interviewed for a postdoc position in his lab at MIT [Massachusetts Institute of Technology].

Q: I recently started a postdoc position in Israel, just after finishing a Ph.D. in India, my home country.

Dear colleagues, I have announced a 2 years postdoc position in Solar Physics at Stockholm University.

He further joined St George's, University of London for a postdoc position in the field of atherosclerosis.

The Complex Trait Genetics lab (www.ctglab.nl) at the Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research in Amsterdam (see www.cncr.nl) is seeking applicants for a Postdoc position in Neuropsychiatric Genetics / Bioinformatics.

Not exact matches

Once he moved to Yale University for his postdoc, Nenad Ban felt he was in a position to take risks because he had published extensively while earning his Ph.D..

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.

Whether you're considering which internship opportunity to pursue, what sort of graduate school experience you might be interested in, or what to expect in your postdoc position, there's information in this booklet for you.

Postdocs work in «one of the most vulnerable positions on campus,» the letter states.

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 policIn 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 policin 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.

But once they got wind of his expertise — he had done postdocs in immunology and receptor signaling at Vanderbilt University and at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona, respectively — «they changed the job description a bit and made the offer to me to expand the position to manage the research building.»

The Revelle fellowship is open to applicants with a minimum of three years of professional experience beyond their doctoral degree (not including postdoc positions), or six years of professional engineering experience for applicants with an MS in engineering.

«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.

We asked committee Chair Petsko to comment, in an e-mail interview, on whether the committee intended to imply that there should be fewer postdoc positions.

Only a minority of the postdocs working in university labs have opportunities to receive high - quality training from eminent senior researchers, develop their own research ideas, gain experience in lab management and grant writing, acquire contacts and a publication record and, ultimately, move into a tenure - track position at a research institution.

A young scientist doing a postdoc in his Ph.D. lab is wondering whether he should make a move and, if so, whether it should be to another postdoc position or a more independent one.

Industrial postdocs often provide higher salaries and greater access to resources than in academia, but how do you find out about available positions and whether they are a good fit for you?

These fortunate few work not at universities but in training positions in industry, national laboratories, and other government entities, and they constitute about 11 % of the nation's postdocs, the report states.

Of those with definite plans for a position in the United States, 65.9 % of the life scientists, 47.5 % of the physical scientists, and 33.3 % of the engineers were headed to postdocs.

For those postdocs with positions in industry or at national laboratories, the experience often provides a sound basis for moving into a permanent career.

With far more postdocs in training than permanent positions available, principal investigator (PI) posts are very competitive these days.

«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.

Seven postdocs, from various biological disciplines and several top institutions, came together there in April 2002 and decided that researchers like themselves, floating about in the amorphous «postdoc» position, badly needed a national voice.

And if you're heading for your first postdoc position, the more irons you can get in your research fire the better.

In conclusion, SPIRE has given me opportunities to obtain skills and experiences not available to every postdoc before applying for an academic position.

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.

Anu Suomalainen - Wartiovaara's postdoc experience in Canada was «definitely» a prerequisite for her current position and, she says, «I enjoy fully my numerous international collaborations, the «borderless» communication.»

... [Postdocs] would come into a broad department in any of several laboratories and have the expectation of going out well trained and well prepared to get a 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.»

In 1988, Lundblad returned to California; her husband, Lou Zumstein, a molecular biologist, had secured a postdoc position at Stanford University, so she arranged to do a second postdoc with Blackburn.

Fortunately I was offered a postdoc position and my partner landed a 2 - year appointment in a nearby hospital.

If you are in a position of authority — a postdoc or Ph.D. student supervising a technician, for example — it will soon become clear that any influence you thought you had might be all in your head.

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

At Merck, he explains, postdocs are only offered a position in the company on rare occasions, «because the philosophy at the company is to recruit people from diverse backgrounds.

So instead of the postdoc, he took a lab manager position in the same University of Michigan laboratory.

A little more than a decade ago, postdocs were rare in France, in part because the traditional mode of recruitment at universities and public research organizations allowed researchers to get permanent positions at a much younger age than in most other countries.

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.

Many postdocs and soft - money researchers find themselves in precisely that position.

New programs offering postdocs sufficient funding and lab space for them to start an independent minigroup have multiplied, especially in Europe, where the launch of the Starting Grants by the European Research Council has prompted the creation of more junior - PI - like positions.

So, after a string of short - term positions in academia — 1 year teaching, a 2 - year postdoc in Italy, and 16 months in a second postdoc back in France — she decided to try her luck elsewhere.

C.R.: It's important for young men and women to think about their career path, so you should say to yourself, «OK, I'm a postdoc now, and in 3 years, my goal is to have an assistant professor position,» or «I'm an assistant professor now, and in 5 years, my goal is to be an associate professor.»