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Career Advice for Researchers

“I saw the need. I saw the early signs of the change toward Open Access publishing. I saw the quickly growing need of Asian researchers to publish in English-language…
Habits to help you be highly productive in your researcher journey
The most important career question a researcher faces is that of choosing between exploring non-research-based positions and continuing with research. A non-academic…
Professor Linqi Zhang - Chair, Department of Basic Medical Sciences and Comprehensive Aids Research Center at Tsinghua University, China - is very passionate about HIV…
The postdoctoral period is the springboard for an early career researcher before plunging into the independent scientific career. Therefore, finding the right mentor is…
Jon Tennant completed his PhD from the Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College London. His research focused on patterns of biodiversity and…
Being an independent researcher may have different implications based on your current career phase. While funding is often the first thing that comes to mind when we…
From my personal experience, I know how difficult it is to get into an international PhD program: it took me three years and dozens of applications to finally achieve my…
Dr. Tida Ge holds a BSc in Soil and Plant Nutrition from Huazhong Agricultural University, China; an MSc in Crop Cultivation and Farming from Qingdao Agricultural…
The PhD program is extremely long and the path is anxiety-ridden, often painful and frustrating, and can take a toll on you physically and emotionally. Therefore, it is…