Questions tagged [research-group]
Questions relating to academic research groups in which a number of researchers whose level of education may vary from undergraduate students to post doctorate researchers and also professors, conduct research projects. These research groups are managed by a university professor or R and D head of a research company in industry. Research groups may be supported financially by the universities or industry companies.
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Should the progress of Phd Students be transparent among group members?
I am using a weekly report system that every student in my group submit a weekly progress report.
I wonder should this be opened to all group members, or it should be just available between me and the ...
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I am not getting academic credit for code I have written for my PhD, when it was later used in other research. Should I complain?
During my PhD, I developed a data analysis code. My PI encouraged its development, expecting it to stay within the research group. The code was used in some published papers and gained attention when ...
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ERC starting grant to move back into academia
I wanted to get opinions on an issue that has been raised to me about applying for the ERC starting grant scheme.
After my 3 years postdoc at the University, last August I obtained a Senior Scientist ...
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Senior Research Associate in Germany
I came across a Senior Research Associate position at a German university. This role is permanent and is classified within the E14 TV-L salary scale. It is situated within the department head’s group, ...
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How competitive for those funded PhD positions in Europe? [closed]
I am based in Canada but want to apply PhD in Europe. I had tried once three years ago for a research group based in a German University. They usually recruit 10-15 PhDs at one time. I was rejected ...
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How to politely ask for credits in a shared project?
I am a PhD candidate working on a component of a larger, transnational project that my professor got funded by an external donor. In this project, I am to work with two other PhD candidates and a ...
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How do I form a great relationship with my advisor? [duplicate]
I'm currently doing research work at a university for two years before I begin my doctoral studies. I just arrived here around 3 months ago. From what I've gathered, my advisor is genuinely a very ...
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Misunderstanding in the author list. Doing valuable suggestions during group meeting suffices to be considered as a co-author? [duplicate]
In the framework of a collaborative project (i.e. 10 universities of the same country got granted money to do research using different approaches in the same topic), i was hired to develop a model. ...
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Am I Part of a Failing Group?
I joined a research group at a prestigous university last year. The group has existed for several years now and is very small. It has never had more than a handful of students, never a Post-Doc. In ...
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How usual is it for master students to take part in work that has nothing to do with their thesis?
I'm doing my master's thesis in a research group in Germany (experimental physics). The group is pretty big, there are multiple experimental setups at the moment, that are maintained by different ...
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How to become a Junior Group Leader in Europe [closed]
From your experience, in the field of biological-chemistry & biophysics: Do you think it is enough to have 10 first-author publications (in impact journals around 4-6) and only ONE publication in ...
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How do I move a research group post-tenure?
I need to work in a safer state or country, and would prefer to remain in academia. I run a healthy ~1mil/year research group, and I want to take the willing part of my team with me (not all will be ...
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How to retrieve the total number of unique citations of a group of authors
I'm writing a joint research proposal for a finance institution. One of the ways to justify working with another group is showing metrics of how many papers they have published and how many citations ...
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What is the best way to find research groups in my field?
I seek to find research groups in my field, start a dialogue with potential supervisors, and apply for available positions. In other words, I want to check research groups' web pages mainly, not just ...
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Cannot find a research group for my PhD program before fall 2021
I am a 1st year physical chemistry graduate student in an American University. I was admitted in September 2020, but I actually started the program in April 2021 due to the visa and pandemic issues. ...
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I am like a stranger in the group
I don't know how to behave as a new PhD student towards the other people in my group. I started my PhD at the begining of Covid in February 2020.
One week after I met the people in our group, our ...
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What is a PhD *in*?
I have been offered a place as a PhD student in an English-speaking university, however, I'm a little concerned that the department may be a bit broad and generic (not the project though; it appeals ...
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As a PhD student, should I attend group meetings when they just make me feel bad?
Should I attend group meetings? In our group meetings, scientific issues (experiment or results) are not discussed, participants only tell their situations (I will have a paper) or material, economic ...
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I feel left out from the group
My supervisor had a surgery. She notified the other doctorate student other than me and the other members of the group. I have no information. No one in the group said this to me. I feel like an idiot ...
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How to ask my former PhD supervisor to stay away from me and do not contact my prospective new PhD supervisor?
There are a long list of stories about the issues with my PhD supervisor here in Academia.SE (see it here but these are not the only ones). So, I'm not going to repeat why I'm leaving my current ...
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My application is declined because of covid - true or false? [closed]
I am looking for an master's internship in Berlin in biology. (background in short: I am a student in another city's university, but because the lectures are online and I have a relative here, I moved ...
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How to find online discussion groups on research topics which are relatively less popular
How could someone who has just enrolled in a phd or started a research could find online discussion groups, especially if the topic is relatively less popular.(e.g How to find research or discussion ...
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How to welcome new PhD students/postdocs to the group during lockdown?
These days several countries (including Germany, where I am situated) are heading towards some kind of lockdown due to the Corona pandemic. Nonetheless, new group members arrive and I have the feeling ...
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Advice to manage a Facebook group for PhD students
In my institute, there was no online (or otherwise) platform exclusively available for the current and graduated PhD students. So I created a Facebook group with a vision that the group will allow ...
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How to argue with postdoc hired for a project, to work on tasks from another project
I have one postdoc hired on a H2020 project for 18 months. Fortunately, she worked rather well and all her tasks are going to finish soon (11th month of the project). I would like to reallocate her to ...
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Should I avoid admitting female students for now?
I am female and an early-career PI (principal investigator) in a discipline that tends to attract women, and people with high levels of anxiety (this is documented). In my first years as a graduate ...
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Switching group due to a lack of interest; How to break the news to an advisor who has been very supportive
like many others I'm here to ask for advice about switching groups. I'm a third year PhD in physics. I have been working in my current lab for about a year. Prior to that, I worked on another project ...
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How does one avoid bikeshedding in paper reading groups?
We read papers once a week in my group, and I'm additionally part of a graduate class that involves reading multiple papers a week.
I've noticed that, when asked to think about limitations or future ...
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Prospects for getting an assitantship | How do professors hire in Canada?
I have applied to one of the top engineering school in Canada: UoT, University of British Columbia & UWaterloo.
I've interviewed a professor and he sent me his most recent research publications ...
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What are the criteria that determine if a research group/professor is actively pursuing research?
While searching for research groups pertaining to my area, I came across one that matched my interests well. But in the publications page, the most recent paper was written in the year of 2015, which ...
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Supervisor getting another PhD student with the same project?
I just started a PhD supervised by a clinician and a bioinformatician. The bioinformatician informed me they have received funding to get another PhD student to work on the same disease/ broad ...
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Life as a PhD student
I completed my Master's in Chemical Engineering recently as an International student in the US and now I wanted to go for a PhD as well in the same field.I completed a few Volunteer research work for ...
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Optimal configuration of a research group [closed]
In most of the European Universities I know, research groups are created from the equivalent of Assistant Professors and the Principal Investigator is voted in some sort of election, where there are ...
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Where to find documents/information about research group policies
Due to different problems I have had in my research group (I am the PI) and in order to solve them I have decided to write down in a public document, what is our research group policy.
I considered ...
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Do US professors/group leaders only get a salary, but no group budget?
I was reading an interview with MIT Professor and physics Nobel laureate Wolfgang Ketterle in which he explained that he gets no budget, has to acquire funding even for his secretary, and this is one ...
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Tips on finding research groups that focus on credit scoring based on alternative data
Despite conducting a thorough Google search implementing all the tips provided in answers to this question, I still haven't managed to find a single active research group (at a university, or a public ...
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How much is a PhD worth without publications or a reputation?
I asked this question a few months ago about addressing in-group bullying during my PhD.
How to address in-group bullying without compromising PhD/career?
Things have not improved over the past few ...
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How to address in-group bullying without compromising PhD/career?
I've been bullied by my supervisor and other members of my research group for the past couple of years.
Some of the things which have indicated bullying include snide remarks being made during group ...
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How can I join/volunteer a research group for short term?
I am a working professional and I wish to try working on some research projects after 9-5 job. My average skills doesn't allow me to be a part of big research groups, however, I would still like to ...
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Etiquette for providing manuscript /poster feedback
I am occasionally asked by other students in my research group to read their manuscript/poster before it is submitted/presented. I would assume that the main reason to get another person in the same ...
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Rewriting the paper text: when does it make sense?
I have been working as a postdoc on a theoretical (computational neuroscience) paper as a first author. The funding was over at some point and I have moved to a new position in a different place. By ...
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How do I deal with a stubborn co-author who won't respond to suggestions?
My research group is preparing a theoretical article in a field where author order matters (computational neuroscience), and it has to be submitted soon, as our funding ends soon. I am an author "in ...
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Academic faculty expat (Germany) experiences and new research group advice [closed]
I have been offered a W1 professorship to start a research group (CS/Engineering) at a German university and am seeking to learn from others' experiences or someone prepared to be a second-opinion / ...
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How can I handle publication jealousy among peers in my research lab?
I have been involved in a research lab for a while now. I have a set of peers who work on related, yet non-overlapping fields.
I find myself uncomfortable when other's works get accepted in some ...
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How many students are typical for an advisor?
I am an undergraduate student in China, majoring in chemistry. I am now considering which advisors would be most suitable for my future research.
Actually, I have been working in a professor's lab ...
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Group reviewing a manuscript sent our for review. Ethical?
Is it ethical to "group review" a un-published manuscript sent out for review?
For example, you received a manuscript for review and you shared it with your lab group or group of colleagues, with ...
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What if your advisor excludes you from lunch with students during conference? [closed]
I am attending conference with advisor and the other student from our research group.
I saw my advisor and the other student went to lunch together. They didn't offer me to go together. There were ...
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We want to start working in a new research direction. How to proceed as the first student in the group?
I'm a graduate (Master's) student in Engineering/Applied Physics (EE, specifically). A few months ago when I wanted to choose my specific research topic, my advisor got especially interested in one of ...
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How much should a supervisor expect from students who have graduated?
I have recently completed my PhD and taken up a faculty position at another institution. My new job is busy and I regularly get emails from my PhD supervisor asking me to write protocols or for ...
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No PhD research group during my PhD. How do I handle it?
I have been involved in my PhD now for about half a year but my setup is potentially more uncommon. It feels very independent because I havent got a research group I'm involved in at all. It's ...
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