Sentences with phrase «staff scientist positions as»

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Moreover, these staff scientists, as Solomon sees it, would hold high - caliber positions with all of the health care and retirement benefits offered to other staff at their institution.

To reduce the surplus of young scientists seeking faculty posts and thus help to ease the crisis, the article proposed creating ««nonreplicating» staff scientist positions... as part of a legitimate career track.»

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.

Several programs have been initiated to help promote young investigators, such as the Avenir program at INSERM, which provides young scientists who already have a permanent position with fully equipped space within their host department and funding toward research expenses and salaries for nonpermanent staff for up to 5 years.

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.

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).

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.