Sentences with phrase «scientific contribution to the project»
The memo does not mention postdocs, but it opens the way for those making major scientific contributions to projects to receive the official acknowledgement as full - fledged independent researchers that has traditionally been the exclusive prerogative of faculty members.
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As associate professor and first - author Johan Bollen writes in an e-mail to Science Careers, they wanted their new system to «enable scientists to set their own priorities, fund scientists... not projects, avoid proposal writing and reviewing, avoid administrative burdens, encourage all scientists to participate collectively in the definition of scientific priorities, encourage innovation, reward scientists that make significant contributions to data, software, methods, and systems, avoid funding death spirals (no funding - > no research - > no funding) but still reward high levels of productivity, create the proper incentives for scholarly communication (publishing to communicate, not to improve bibliometrics), enable funding of daring and risky research, and so on.»
My job has been to be the spider in the web — collecting information from the 24 partners, everything from administrative data to their scientific contributions, their expertise, and their expectations of the project, while making sure we meet the Commission's deadlines.
The massive projects needed now — such as devising a model of climate change detailed enough to be truly predictive or batteries efficient enough to compete with gasoline — can not wait or depend on chancy funding, he believes.He added that a strong national commitment to goal - centered basic science could help solve other important problems by drawing America's talented young people into scientific work and providing them with better opportunities for aspiring researchers to build careers with a realistic chance of making both a significant scientific contribution and a decent living.
(2) that prior to the submission of an application for PHS support for a research project on which the Respondent's participation is proposed and prior to Respondent's participation in any capacity on PHS - supported research, Respondent shall ensure that a plan for supervision of Respondent's duties is submitted to ORI for approval; the supervision plan must be designed to ensure the scientific integrity of Respondent's research contribution; Respondent agreed that he shall not participate in any PHS - supported research until such a supervision plan is submitted to and approved by ORI; Respondent agreed to maintain responsibility for compliance with the agreed upon supervision plan;
Since joining the Laboratory in 2000, Michael Heffner has made exceptional scientific and technical contributions to a number projects, and in so doing has established two high - visibility programs.
Péter Ábrahám, research advisor at Konkoly Observatory and the leader of the Hungarian MATISSE project emphasizes that «the successful Hungarian contribution to MATISSE shows a good example for a synergy between high - tech instrument development and world - class scientific research using the most powerful astronomical instruments.
This work is a contribution to the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA), a joint European Science Foundation / European Commission scientific program, funded by the European Commission and by national contributions from Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.