postdoc

Since the job market even a year out is unpredictable, having at least the option of a three-year postdoc fellowship is desirable.

As a postdoc you will work on someone else's ideas, and may be treated as a technician rather than as an independent collaborator.

An important transition period is moving from being a postdoc to starting one's own lab, which presents a set of novel challenges.

If you are good, your mentor may want you to postdoc for a long period.

"It's not easy to find a really good job in China after only one postdoc. I need more experience and recommendations to get funding. "

In some areas five years as a postdoc is now a prerequisite for landing a secure full-time job.

After college, I spent eight years as a graduate student and postdoc at Berkeley, and then nine years at Bell Labs.

Five of his students, four Ph Ds and one postdoc, each won the Nobel Prize.

"But passion is what will carry a postdoc through the challenges, " she says.

Passmore was a postdoc in Ramakrishnan's lab.

"I know exactly where it will happen, " said postdoc Alonso Ricardo, from Cali, Colombia.

The rise of the postdoc has created another obstacle on the way to an academic post.

In fact, I have a postdoc at Caltech who's very interested in the possibility of universes bumping into each other.

Kryder began exploring digital storage in the 1970s as a postdoc at the California Institute of Technology.

Postdoc Superconducting Power Transmission Project

Perhaps you are so talented that you can beat the postdoc trap;