To enable researchers at an early
stage of their scientific career to carry out a clearly defined research project at a place of their choice abroad or to acquaint themselves with new scientific research methods
Not exact matches
They identified the «interruption
of a
scientific career and funding gaps between research
stages» as a key hurdle in the professional life
of young researchers and took the view that «steps must be taken to avoid [this].»
But others
of the same age and
career stage will hold a new kind
of position providing total
scientific independence plus 5 years
of guaranteed funding, staff, and lab space in an elegant, state -
of - the - art building.
Many
of you have come to us asking for more (and more serious) advice on how to make sense
of the
scientific literature, so we've asked a dozen scientists at different
career stages and in a broad range
of fields to tell us how they do it.
It may take a while to find your own inner mythological god or goddess, but regardless
of what
stage in your
scientific career you find yourself, know that your mentoring efforts could create future generations
of mentors to whom even Odysseus would be comfortable entrusting his son.
The experience
of Ajit, * a Ph.D. student in physics and material science at the University
of Twente in the Netherlands, suggests that such acceptance from the
scientific community is not restricted to more senior
career stages.
«The most important thing at this
stage of a young person's
career is to make an important
scientific discovery.
Firstly, we fund
scientific research in a truly global context in the form
of grants for international collaborations between two to four labs in different countries (and with high priority given to teams on different continents), with both a special programme for Young Investigators and programme grants for scientists at any
stage of their
careers.
The major goals
of the organization are to support talented researchers at all
stages of their
careers, stimulate the exchange
of scientific information, and help build a European research environment where scientists can achieve their best work.
The Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists is a global prize, established in 2013 by the
scientific journal Science and SciLifeLab, aimed at rewarding young scientists at an early
stage of their
careers.
First, NSF funds the core
scientific research
of individual investigators; NSF presently has more than 40 active awards to individual investigators and small teams pursuing exoplanet research, including highly competitive awards to young scientists in the ascending
stages of their
careers.
The Director
of our group is an amazing artist and did a lot
of scientific illustrations at earlier
stages of his
career — it's so great how you can combine the things you love.
In the early 1970s, at age sixty, Randi moved from a
career as a magician (his
stage name was the Amazing Randi) to a life focused on separating myth and illusion from reality as a co-founder
of the Committee for
Scientific Investigation
of Claims
of the Paranormal.