Timeline for When sending email to potential PhD supervisors, Is it recommendable to attach a precis of their papers?
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| Jun 7, 2021 at 19:28 | comment | added | Azor Ahai -him- | @rg_software Not entirely. PIs have only so much capacity for students. It's pointless to apply to the dept if that PI isn't open to supervising more students. | |
| Jun 7, 2021 at 13:45 | comment | added | J... | @rg_software I think your concerns could be addressed by adding one word to the first sentence above, namely : "I am a student in [subject] at [university] and am looking for a funded PhD position starting next year." | |
| Jun 6, 2021 at 15:03 | comment | added | Buffy | @rg_software, actually, in the US, application is usually to a university department, not to a PI and most grad students are funded as TAs. In many fields, such an email would be noise, possibly ignored and possibly referred to the admission system. There are some exceptions, but that is the usual thing. The "some places" is more likely to refer to (IIRC) Germany and Austria. But not the US, anyway. | |
| Jun 6, 2021 at 14:53 | comment | added | rg_software | @Buffy, So in a nutshell if a US-based PI receives a mail like above, the message should be treated as "you are expected to employ me", right?.. | |
| Jun 6, 2021 at 14:33 | comment | added | Buffy | @rg_software, that is very country and field specific. In some places contact with the PI is the gate to admission as well as funding. In the US, not so much. I don't know about Japan. | |
| Jun 6, 2021 at 14:12 | comment | added | rg_software | Frankly speaking, such emails keep me puzzled, because they don't address "the elephant in the room" -- how they are going to fund this position. Some people just go to our PhD program on their own, some have a sort of scholarship, some expect us to fund them, and some want to apply for a grant with my help. It's a huge difference, and (at least for me) even a bigger issue than "alignment of interests". | |
| Jun 6, 2021 at 13:17 | history | edited | GoodDeeds | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 6, 2021 at 7:41 | history | answered | astronat supports the strike | CC BY-SA 4.0 |