Timeline for Writing to prospective advisors who co-authored a paper
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| Nov 19, 2018 at 16:20 | comment | added | Bryan Krause♦ | Depending on the field you are in, the order of authorship might give you more information. It's possible the work you are referring to is mostly done in one lab or the other, with the second person mostly providing support, or it may be a true close collaboration. It might be hard to figure out which is the case, but you should probably investigate as well as you are able to. Is one of these professors a more senior person? Another situation that comes up in my field is that a senior person is very busy and they have actual tenure track faculty that basically work under them. | |
| Nov 19, 2018 at 12:16 | comment | added | Buffy | If you are equally happy to work with either of them you could structure a letter that focuses more on the topic than the professor and send it to both of them "I'd like to work with one or both of you" phrasing, perhaps. | |
| Nov 19, 2018 at 11:20 | comment | added | user2522981 | @SolarMike so it's ok if the content seems identical? | |
| Nov 19, 2018 at 11:10 | comment | added | Solar Mike | Structure it differently then... | |
| Nov 19, 2018 at 10:42 | history | asked | user2522981 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |