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Current advisor wants me to graduate with my PhD soon but I don't feel like I learned a lot or obtained enough skills. Should I discuss this with him?
I'm a soon to be 4.5th year Ph.D student currently in a 10 week internship. My advisor wants me to wrap up my dissertation as soon as I can. However, I'm not feeling good about where I'm at right now ...
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IT Professional interested in research [duplicate]
I have Bachelors of Engineering degree in Electronics & Communication from India. After that I have 5 year 9 months of experience from India and 2 year 2 month experience in Germany. I am ...
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Is it possible to work on your personal idea as PhD thesis?
I have come up by synthesis of 3 lines of research to a general idea whose questions and concerns and most importantly conceptual foundations can be addressed mathematically in a rigorous way.
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Title for a non-PhD researcher?
I do not have a PhD, nor am I pursuing one, in the United Kingdom.
What title could I be given, if I worked as a paid researcher at a university, but I was not a PhD student or PhD graduate? The level ...
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How to join PhD in Mathematics in France? [closed]
I am interested in joining a PhD program in Mathematics in France. Now I am a Master's degree student in India.
My research interests include Differential Geometry (in particular, Hyperbolic Geometry)....
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How to find internship or supervisors if not in academia?
I don't have a MSc in STEM, however I gained some professional experience in data-science, but outside of academia:
I coauthored a data-model at my former startup, described in a patent application ...
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As a postdoc, I made progress on a project that I was supposed to do during my PhD. I am regretting the time spent on my PhD [closed]
When I joined my computational modeling lab as a PhD student, I was supposed to work on a topic that I was very much interested in.
I spent 2 years of trying, but couldn't show any progress. I became ...
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Mentioning possible PhD principal investigators in graduate application w/o being asked to do so?
My title is pretty self-explanatory, but I was wondering how it looks to mention specific researchers to work with in graduate school via my personal statement/s. I'm applying to PhD programs in ...
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NSF GRFP Application for a Rising Undergraduate Senior
Prefacing this, I am currently a rising undergraduate senior who plans to attend graduate school after I finish this last year. I want to work toward a PhD in neuroscience. Over the past year, I have ...
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Employment in academia for doctorates w/o same field undergrad
I'm an undergraduate in Mechanical Engineering interested in a career in academia, especially Physics. A middle aged person in India (from where I am) I recently met told me he couldn't find ...
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How to know if one is suitable for pursuing academia or Research work their entire life? [duplicate]
I am a PhD student in engineering in an university in Canada. I am close to completion of my thesis but I am not very proud of my work. I have couple of publications from my work, all in decent ...
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Is it possible to become an independent researcher with a PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering [closed]
Dear Fellow Researchers,
I got my PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from a EU university some time ago. I've got a good cv in terms of publications, peer-review work, participation in R&D ...
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Raising money on the Kickstarter or GoFundMe websites
Let's say a student is not funded during the summer months but has a cool research idea that even their advisor thinks is tractable and important to the scientific community, and this student wishes ...
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What are the chances of getting an academic position year after completion of PhD? [closed]
My situation is as follows:
When I will have completed my PhD, I will not be able to immediately apply for a research position at a university, as my girlfriend will want to move to a certain city ...
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How can I get a PhD position to work on solving a particular mathematics problem that I have formulated independently?
I have a pure mathematics problem which I formulated after years of research in signal processing of audio signals and years going into formulating a problem on precise mathematical terms, which is a ...
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