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Should I exclude my supervisor as a reference when applying for academic jobs outside my PhD area?
If you completed your PhD, then your thesis advisor probably knows you better than anyone else. If I was an employer I would want to see that letter of reference.
Since the relationship has soured, I ...
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Should I exclude my supervisor as a reference when applying for academic jobs outside my PhD area?
Whether you exclude your PhD supervisor or not, he will be asked to write you a letter of recommendation in 90% of cases. If you are applying for a fellowship, a letter from your PhD supervisor is ...
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Is chemistry needed for graduate programs in material science?
While it might be good to take an advanced course in chemistry or any other related field, I doubt that it is necessary. Some programs might find it a problem, but most doctoral programs in US are ...
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Publishing without supervisor (sidelining Ph.D. supervisor)
A short answer: if you publish a paper without your supervisor, it will be called scientific misconduct, and your career in science will be finished. All your future jobs depend on a letter of ...
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Publishing without supervisor (sidelining Ph.D. supervisor)
As someone that just finished their dissertation, I can certainly sympathize and I apologize for your situation. It's never fun when you're stuck in am awkward/tough situation with a coworker, boss, ...
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Publishing without supervisor (sidelining Ph.D. supervisor)
All the details of your relationship with your supervisor are hard do clarify without a deeper understanding of both sides, you may be right, but also very wrong (e.g. asking your PhD student help ...
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Publishing without supervisor (sidelining Ph.D. supervisor)
I don't know your field of research. Are you sure you can carry out research projects independently from your supervisor? For some fields like Math it might be possible, I guess. In my field (...
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Showed my CV and resume to screeners. Things are not looking good job prospect wise. How can I salvage my situation?
Your many questions here, including this one, indicate that you are very anxious about things, including your own abilities. I think that that anxiety is holding you back. I can't say whether it is ...
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Working in HEP TH with a background primarily in HEP PH
In graduate school, you better follow the lines suggested to you by your supervisor. While your own initiative and your own ideas would be of a great value, try for the time being not to deviate much ...
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Working in HEP TH with a background primarily in HEP PH
Generally, one can switch research focus and even, perhaps, subfield or even field, if you have a stable position from which to work. If you are a tenured professor in some aspect of physics then ...
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Quitting software engineering job to accept professor's assistant position
I would suggest first to think what would you like to do after the professor's assistant position, and if you see yourself working in industry instead of academia in the future.
If you would really ...
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From PhD to Assistant/Associate Professor
In many countries you can apply for positions at Assistant Professor level directly after your PhD. For example Junior Professor in Germany. Your PhD needs to be strong, probably also publication ...
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From PhD to Assistant/Associate Professor
In the U.K. at least In biosciences, virtually nobody goes from PhD to some kind of associated/assistant professor role, unless you are some kind of genius. Almost everyone who makes it to that ...
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Lost in my life plan at the beginning of PhD thesis
(1) First, like others have said: 1 month is nothing in the context of a PhD thesis and you should not make any harsh decisions after only one month. Try to give it your best for at least 3 months and ...
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Lost in my life plan at the beginning of PhD thesis
I feel very lost because my goal was always to become a scientist after finishing these last three years, but now I am pretty sure that this does not fit me.
First of all you have to take time and ...
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What are the pros and cons of joining a newly established department as assistant/associate professors?
I don't know how things work in China, frankly, but a general response is:
The "pros" are that you might be able to shorten your time to tenure in such a situation, depending on your current ...
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Do university departments take on additional faculty members for existing lab groups?
Collecting and expanding on my comments on the question:
Do university departments take on additional faculty members for existing lab groups?
TL;DR: no, but faculty do sometimes hire Ph.D.s into ...
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Breaking into research oriented tenure-track positions from teaching track
I faced this situation 28 years ago, when after defence I found myself at an Adjunct position, spending almost all my time for teaching and surviving on a miserable salary.
I chose Strategy 1. It was ...
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Do university departments take on additional faculty members for existing lab groups?
When you say "lab group," are you thinking of physical lab space with expensive equipment?
A university would probably rather not dedicate the space to having 2 copies of e.g. a very large &...
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Breaking into research oriented tenure-track positions from teaching track
As an alternative to your strategies 1 through 4, I remember reading the book A PhD Is Not Enough, which had the suggestion of working at a governmental research lab (like the US Department of Energy'...
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Do university departments take on additional faculty members for existing lab groups?
No. It is considered inefficient.
The rare exception would be: When hiring a very famous faculty member (such as a Nobel Prize winner) the new faculty member may be promised the opportunity to hire ...
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Do university departments take on additional faculty members for existing lab groups?
Most university faculty hiring is to fill some perceived need. Mostly that would be bringing in new ideas to an existing group. As faculty near retirement, new people can keep the vitality of a ...
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Lost in my life plan at the beginning of PhD thesis
First, be aware that the beginning of new things––jobs, education, moving to a new town or house––often feels strange, uncomfortable, and sometimes wrong. If the thing (in this case your PhD program) ...
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How Impactful is the Particular Subject of Undergraduate Research to Graduate Admissions
I'm not part of an admission committee so take this with a grain of salt (maybe someone with more experience here will chime in). But from what I've seen second hand, yeah it will help. Probably more ...
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Would it be possible to work as part-time staff in a university research lab?
Research administrator here (US-based).
Are you looking at jobs as like a lab manager? These positions are often hard to fill because research folks tend to look at academic positions instead of ...
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Would it be possible to work as part-time staff in a university research lab?
Yes, it's possible. I'd expect any institution to have jobs posted somewhere and browsing those jobs is probably more productive than cold emailing. At my own institution you can easily filter by job ...
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