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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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Choice of Location for Math PhD Grad
I am currently a data scientist working in natural language processing, with an undergrad background in math and CS, and a masters in CL/NLP. Mathematics was always my preferred area, but I wasn't ...
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Can I become a professor in a subject I did badly in?
I am a third year math undergraduate student. I am in Europe (Serbia) but would like to do a postgraduate degree in the USA. My freshman year went poorly, but after that I started to do a lot better. ...
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Junior professorships (W1) in Germany - does the 6 year limit before start apply to all states?
I am currently a PostDoc in Germany, recently finished my PhD. I come originally from Italy where I pursued my undergraduate degree, and have completed my master's and PhD in Germany (in different ...
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How do professors advance from 2nd to 1st class in France?
There are three classes of professors in French universities: second, first, and exceptional. I understand that within each class there are several ranks which seem to be based mostly on time since ...
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Canadian Med School Professor looking to work in USA [closed]
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I’m a medical school professor at a Canadian medical school and was interested in potentially seeking a job in the US. Currently I make around $160k CAD pre tax ($124k USD) although ...
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On average what is the likelihood that a research fellow will eventually become a lecturer or an assistant professor? [duplicate]
I was trying to determine the probability that someone who is currently a research fellow will become a lecturer or assistant professor within the next five years and I was wondering if someone could ...
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How much do you agree with Elon Musk statement that non one is going to read your publications? [closed]
I have seen a public video on youtube where Elon Musk gave his opinion about academic publications: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA_2v0d9Gzs
He stated that most academic publications are pretty ...
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Asking a faculty member at my university that I have not met(!) about his research, and about courses that deal with his specialty/my career goal?
I am an undergraduate student pursuing a double major in Computer Science B.S. and Mathematics B.S.
My dream career is to work in quant. finance. However, my school does not have a dedicated ...
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Associate Professor vs Assistant Professor vs Lecturer [duplicate]
I want to know the difference between associate and assistant professor in terms of contract length, status and salary. And also how both positions are published and what's the recruitment process of ...
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What are some questions that you can ask your prospective Ph.D. supervisor during interview? [duplicate]
I have an interview with a professor for a Ph.D. position in the US next week. As I was going through the possible questions that a professor can ask, so I was wondering what if they ask me if I have ...
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What valid reason can I give for my low CGPA to a prospective PhD advisor? [closed]
I am applying for PhD in US universities and my CGPA is lower than they ask for. But I believe my research experience is good enough to get a position. When I contacted a professor with my CV, he ...
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My original plan was academia. I'm a grad student. I'm uncertain if I want to keep this is my end goal [closed]
I'm posting this here because I frankly am not sure where else to ask a question like this. If anyone has a better idea where this should go let me know.
I'm a third year American graduate student in ...
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How can a present software-engineer (with experience of 5 years at least) turn into a physics professor? [closed]
There are often many people who switch careers midway. Some from software engineering to a product management role which is quite popular given relevance of previous career to current career. Another ...
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Can I write I worked as a referee in a journal in my CV? [duplicate]
I have recently reviewed an article. I am applying for a Ph.D. position nowadays so I am upgrading my CV and writing the professors. Is it ok if I write that I worked as a referee and mention the ...
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What are some criteria to get an Australian PhD scholarship? [closed]
I want to apply for a PhD in Australia and I wrote a professor (who has an open position) with my CV. He was very positive in his mail and encouraged me to apply for that position. Now I want to know ...
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What is the benefit of review a scientific paper as a referee? [duplicate]
I got an invitation to review a scientific paper from a journal. I accepted the offer to review but was wondering what benefits I might get if I review a paper? Can I write it in my CV as I will be ...
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Dual Job by a Professor in Europe
I have seen many professor are working in a research institute and also a full-time professor at a University. How is it feasible? Are they involve in the dual job and getting a salary from a research ...
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Is it ok if I write to all professors that are offering Ph.D. positions the same email?
I saw some Ph.D. positions from a particular university. Most of the projects align well with my interest. So before applying, I want to write the professors some queries (e.g. just to know what he is ...
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When a professor takes an affiliate appointment in another department, do they get an increase in salary? [closed]
Let's say an associate professor of Math makes 120k per year USD in a United States university and takes an affiliate professor position in the Quantitative Biology department. Would they get ...
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Is promotion from staff scientist to professor possible? (Considering job offer in US)
I am a researcher making its way (very slowly) to professor in Europe. After several years of effort and relocations, I have now my own research program and have earned a promotion to supervise PhD ...
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The choice between changing advisor or just ignoring her and do the PhD research alone?
I'am 2nd year PhD student and I'm in the phase of problem definition and exploration for my research. Other than research, I also do both RA (working on paper review, grants, etc) and TA jobs as well. ...
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What happens to unproductive professors?
I notice that past a certain age (sometimes as early as 50), some professors tend to be significantly less productive, to the point that they essentially do not publish or have graduate students and ...
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Percentage of tenure track positions promoted to full professors [duplicate]
I wonder if there are statistics on the overall percentage of people promoted from tenure track positions (assistant professor) to full professor in fields like mathematics and science (first-rate ...
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Why is a professorship sometimes called a chair?
Why is a professorship sometimes called a chair? Are chairs only the correct term when the professorship has been endowed? (I don't think so, because endowed professorships are rare in the UK, but ...
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What is the maximum age to get into academia, as a recent PhD / recent post-doc, in the US? [closed]
At what age does breaking into academia as a professor, e.g. recent PhD / recent post-doc, in the United States become effectively impossible?
Is it at the age of 30 or 40?
I keep hearing about ...
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Can I pursue a PhD while working as an Accounting Instructor/Lecturer?
I plan on becoming an Accounting Professor in the near future. What I was hoping to do was pursue my PhD while working for the university as a lecturer/instructor. I read that many people work as a ...
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Are my chances of getting into a PhD higher if I choose a "not-so-accomplished" supervisor?
Some professors are very accomplished, others are younger and maybe not yet so accomplished (although admittedly this does not need to correlate with age of course). I presume everyone wants to work ...
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Why do researchers need universities?
This is a follow-up question to How are junior professors evaluated for promotion? and probably an even more naive question. If I'm understanding the answer correct, professors need funding to do ...
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In what parts of the world, besides the US, do endowed chairs exist?
Browsing academia.SE, I discovered the existence of "endowed chairs" or "named chairs", i.e. professorships named in the honor of someone else and paid for by a donor with a gift to the university. I'...