Postdoctoral Positions and Career Growth

Details Postdoctoral Positions and Career Growth Postdoctoral Positions and Career Growth

Dec 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001agufmed22b..04m&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2001, abstract #ED22B-04

Biology

6605 Education, 6620 Science Policy, 6630 Workforce

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Career choices begin to diverge at the time the doctorate is received. A variety of career options are available to pursue including positions in academia, government, and industry as well as non-traditional services. A postdoctoral appointment is worth considering as preparation for a career in academia or basic research. The postdoctoral appointment can expand the recent graduate's background and broaden their scientific perspective and reputation. Postdoctoral experience may even be essential to be competitive for some faculty and research laboratory appointments. However, there is a wide range of postdoctoral choices to consider. There are many opportunities for postdoctoral appointments in universities, and emerging opportunities in some corporate laboratories. We will mention opportunities in federal laboratories such as the National Research Council programs in NASA, NOAA, EPA, and the Dept. of Defense, which are open to U.S. citizens and in some cases to non-U.S. applicants, to pursue research in all areas of the Earth and space sciences. And there are exciting new interdisciplinary programs such as the NASA Astrobiology Institute, as well as international opportunities including the von Humboldt fellowships in Germany and similar programs elsewhere in Europe, Japan, and other countries.

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