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This question can, in some ways, be extended to anyone who is at the intersection of several disciplines - be that lawyers, some types of researchers, etc. So I'm going to give my answer in more gene …

I did a very similar transition, moving from wet lab biology late in my undergraduate career to computational biology, which is what I work in now. It's certainly doable - I made the switch with no pr …

I'm an Epidemiologist, so I'll answer things from that perspective: "How do jobs at "research institutes" work? Or jobs at major hospitals that have research programs?" Assuming it's not, as m …

I have no idea how you'd find hard data on the program itself and its results, but as an idle musing I checked how many full time faculty members in the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health's Dept. o …

Unfortunately there's some ambiguity in language here that I think is causing a wide variety of different answers. "Research Assistant" means many different things to many different people. Most comm …

Focusing on just a small part of this question, my answer is this: Because 'academia' is a wide and diverse place, with many different skill sets, questions and challenges. You're also focusing too m …

I am currently a master’s student hoping to shift into a PhD. The thing is, I hate the lab work. I love all the literature review, designing experiments, troubleshooting problems and data interpret …

I collaborate with, and work on projects, involving human health, animal health, ecology, and the occasional bit of applied math. Should I work four times as hard? The simple answer is no. Because i …

Answering as an epidemiologist who knows a fair number of staff scientists, and took a good, hard look at the option myself. When/why do people hire research scientists/staff scientists instead …

Your example just described a great many mathematical biologists - many of whom have successful academic careers. Whether this is possible or not is largely a function of departments, and how they fe …

"Math" means many things - just at the start, that can mean something like applied math vs. pure math, for which this answer has very different tracks to it. I'd say it breaks into two potential trac …

Does your salary increase automatically? It depends. Tenure may or may not come alongside a promotion (but often does). The increase in pay that comes from that promotion may be small or large - …

Background: Answering this as a biomedical researcher currently in a tenure-track position who definitely looked at some non-tenure, 100% soft money positions. One thing to note, there are also effect …

At many institutions, research is all that matters. If you're at an institute with a light teaching burden for your PhD students, it stands to reason that there may not be all that much teaching for t …

There have actually been some studies (if I recall Mike The Mad Biologist's blog covered them awhile back) suggesting that biology graduate students are somewhat less happy than their peers because ma …