DO interview your potential advisor if you apply for a PhD or postdoc.
This can save you years of pain, lost dreams and wasted time.
❗ Most students are focused on receiving the offer. But this is the biggest mistake one can make when looking for a position.
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NOT every lab is friendly and has a good mentor in charge. In fact, most professors don’t know how to mentor (as mentorship is not prioritized in academia).
AFTER you get an offer, you can avoid possible problems during your PhD/postdoc through this:
1️⃣ Interview your advisor about the approaches and opinion on:
1. Research advising (how your advisor understands it and how it’s done in the group).
2. Mentoring and personal development during PhD/postdoc.
3. Collaboration - how they do it and what role students/postdocs play in it.
4. Development of your independence and confidence in research.
5. Your participation in conferences and workshops (how often and which types of conferences).
6. How they prepare research publications – authorship, quality, time per manuscript, contributions, etc.
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2️⃣ Make sure you can talk to the current students one on one (online or in person):
1. Ask about the group culture and support from the advisor
2. Hear their opinion on publication practices and conferences
Ultimately, don’t leave until you understand how you can fit in this group.
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3️⃣ Talk to alumni (at least 3-4 people):
1. Check out the advisor’s website and find a list of alumni.
2. Google the names of those who went into academia and industry (to hear both sides).
3. Reach out via email or LinkedIn, explain your intentions and politely ask for a quick call.
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🔴 Why is it important?
Because your advisor is the ONE who can shape your professional skills, motivation and perception of science.
Because the right mentor FORGES your critical thinking and vision.
And a careful search of such an advisor is the starting point.
#AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #phdvoice
Today we are starting on the #Community4Innovation path!
▶️ This project funded by @InterregEuroMED aims to help consolidate new cooperation routines between actors across the #Mediterranean, to promote sustainable development in this region.
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https://t.co/PzP7ZQFsw4
There is nothing like that happy space as a supervisor where your early stage researcher has reviewer comments back from a great journal and you know they can easily do everything needed to get the manuscript accepted:)
@Reflow_ESR10@KarenDaly053
Some reviewers approach a manuscript only focused on what they think is wrong.
Other reviewers approach a manuscript genuinely wanting to help the authors make it better.
Kindness and rigor do not have to be mutually exclusive.
Some reviewers approach a manuscript only focused on what they think is wrong.
Other reviewers approach a manuscript genuinely wanting to help the authors make it better.
Kindness and rigor do not have to be mutually exclusive.
➕ Also from the @etnREFLOW team, our colleague Ipan Hidayat, the @Reflow_ESR2, has been the rapporter of the session about #Phosphorus recovery from #dairy processing waste.
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Great days in #Vienna thanks to the #ESPC4 & #PERM5! 👏🏼👏🏼
➕ Also from the @etnREFLOW team, our colleague Ipan Hidayat, the @Reflow_ESR2, has been the rapporter of the session about #Phosphorus recovery from #dairy processing waste.
♻️🥛✅
Great days in #Vienna thanks to the #ESPC4 & #PERM5! 👏🏼👏🏼
Presenting my poster in #espc4 and #perm5 conference in Vienna. This work addresses the novel approach of P recovery from whey using combined technology of membrane system and freeze concentration which showed very promising results.
@BETA_TechCenter @etnREFLOW @phosphorusfacts
After 2 years of postponing this event…
Finally.. we are here in ESPC4 and PERM5 to explore the latest technological approach for phosphorus recovery from dairy processing waste.
This session will be coordinated by @etnREFLOW
Keep en eye for the latest update!
The third parallel session of PERM5, happening on June 22nd between 10:45 and 12:15 CEST, will explore the technologies to recover #nutrients from #dairy processing, and the fertilizing applications of dairy-based nutrient products.
Info and registration: https://t.co/Z39T7WDhDA
I’m thrilled to announce that I won the 3 minutes thesis competition at @UniLaSalle_fr during @ETNReflow summer school.
The objective of this activity is to present the works that have been done in @BETA_TechCenter to general publics as an audiences.
#summerschool#phosporus