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I am giving in the next days a presentation to a UK university, as a part of an interview for a post-doc position.

The PI of the lab asked me to put one slide at the beginning with my academic CV.

However, academic CV is in general long and I have no clue on what I should put in this slide and what not, beside the obvious things.

What should this slide contain? Which is the common practice for this?

I am sure I will need to add:

  • Previous degrees (Bsc, Msc).
  • Phd

What I do not know:

  • Professional experiences?
  • Teaching experiences?
  • List of papers?
  • List of conferences?
  • List of journals for which I served as a reviewer?
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    Make it readable. Make it "interesting". Make the last bullet "Many more things, too numerous to mention"
    – Buffy
    Commented Jul 12, 2018 at 17:45

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I would treat it as a bullet point summary of your accomplishments:

  • PhD/dissertation
  • Notable experiences (e.g., teaching, internships, and professional positions, but not the typical TA/RA positions)
  • Awards
  • Summary of publications (e.g., "8 publications in venues such as A and B")

There are no standard rules for this. The goal is to convince them you are worthy of a job, so eliminate any noise and only provide the highlights. They can refer to your actual CV if they want more details.

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Consider the EMPTY slide as a TWO-Column page as shown in the picture below.

The following picture is just the DUMBEST work I have ever done, but in short time, I could manage only this much to give my answer. You need to add color and flair to it

Good luck !

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I typically do two slides for short self-presentation, but the first one is relevant for you.

First slide

  • *19xx
  • BSc 20xx, MSc 20yy
  • PhD 20aa from Burkington
  • Venia legendi 20zz from ZU Zaplin
  • Tenured at Marward at 20mm

Second slide

  • Current research focus
  • Further research interests
  • A fancy research video
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  • Why would you put your birth year on there (I presume that's what *19xx refers to)?
    – astronat supports the strike
    Commented Jul 12, 2018 at 18:30
  • Because getting a PhD while being young enough is an achievement?
    – Oleg Lobachev
    Commented Jul 12, 2018 at 18:38
  • Young enough for what? many countries have anti age discrimination laws, so it would not be an advantage.
    – astronat supports the strike
    Commented Jul 12, 2018 at 18:41
  • You'd want to convey the dynamics of your career, won't you?
    – Oleg Lobachev
    Commented Jul 12, 2018 at 22:59
  • @OlegLobachev I would say that the difference between your BSc, MSc and PhD graduation years is enough to show that you have obtained your degrees in a short time, which I understand it is the idea you actually want to convey. Unless you started your college studies before standard age and want to display that.
    – fa__
    Commented Jul 13, 2018 at 8:11
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You could make a "multiple timelines" slide.

You could make a slide showing multiple arrows representing time, each one depicting one dimension of your scientific experience. Here are the dimensions I recently presented using this slide format : 1. Academic affiliations, classes I was in charge of 2. Lab affiliations 3. The research projects I participated in 4. Papers and conferences (represented as dashes of different colors with a highlight on written publications)

This list of ideas needs to be adapted to your own experience. I think that the main objective would be to make it as simple as possible and to refine your different points in your speech.

Generally speaking, I think that this kind of visual can help your audience to grasp your whole experience in a few minutes and more importantly, to grasp it's consistency.

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