Questions tagged [career-path]
Queries related to progression of academics in various capacities from a student to a professor and the various stages involved in the process.
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How to come back to academic machine learning career after absence due to health issues
Back in 2018 I started a master's degree in CS focusing on ML with the goal of eventually obtaining a PhD. This did not work out for two reasons: 1) most of the ML faculty left for another university. ...
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Salary of Maître de conférences (France)
I am inquiring about academic positions in France and their salaries.
In particular, I have received an offer for a "Maître de conférences" position. According to my current information, I ...
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New faculty position – expectation to change research direction
I am mainly looking for advice, perspectives and thoughts from other colleagues.
For many years I have undertaken self-directed research as a Senior Researcher in the field of mental health. It has ...
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Why there is low recruitment of Theoretical HEP doctarates as prof. in Academia
"I've heard through the grapevine that you have more chance of becoming a professional athlete than becoming a professor in theoretical HEP(high energy physics)" is one of the things i have ...
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Machine learning researcher as a high-energy physics masters graduate [closed]
From what I understand, the majority of novel machine learning (ML) research is in applications such as natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV). How can I focus my career on ...
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Advice for how many conferences humanities PhDs should be presenting at per year from experienced hiring committee members? [closed]
Do people who have been involved with hiring at colleges and universities know how many conferences papers PhD students (in the humanities) should be presenting per year in this job-market? I have ...
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Impact of PhD University Reputation on Professor Applications in India?
How important is the reputation of the university where I obtain my PhD when applying for postdoctoral positions and professorships in India? Specifically, how does the ranking and prestige of my PhD ...
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I feel like doing a PhD is my only option but I am not excited about it. What can I do to fix my life? [closed]
I have graduated a year ago from Oxford with a first honour master's degree in maths and computer science. Since then I've been trying to find a decent job and have been failing, to the point where I ...
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Does Being a TA for an Irrelevant Course Benefit My Resume?
Would having experience as a TA for a course outside my field be seen as a positive on resume?
How might this experience be perceived by potential employers or academic committees, especially when it'...
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Not being specialist of a precise topic (but having a broader perspective): is it a bad thing for an experienced post-doc
I finished my PhD a few years ago and I just finished my second year of post-doc.
My research has been quite multidisciplinary and I am getting increasingly worried to not have a label of being the ...
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Switching research line at 2+years in post-doc
I am 2+ years in my first postdoc. In my PhD and beginning of my post-doc, my expertise was multidisciplinary: it linked different thematics. However I am getting a bit “bored” by this research line, ...
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Should you list all possible professional goals or be specific?
The PhD program I am applying to is asking about my professional goals and ambitions? I am thinking to answer it with respect to short-term and long-term goals. Short-term goals are easy to write ...
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List of "possible publications" at international conferences
I want to apply for a PhD fellowship program abroad and one of the requirements is that I must provide a list of possible publications and presentations at international seminars/conferences, what ...
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Academic careerism: How can there be biased research or dishonest inquiry in theoretical hard sciences? [closed]
From Wikipedia: (emphasis added)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_careerism
Academic careerism is the tendency of academics (professors specifically and intellectuals generally) to pursue their ...
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Interested in pursuing a Ph.D. to do research in making warp drive a reality [closed]
I would appreciate some feedback on my specific situation. I have always been passionate about space exploration and would very much love to start doing research on not just the physics that would ...
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