On the PCDI website, you can find all kinds of information about career development for the early career researcher. But we also would like to hear from you, what keeps you busy when you think about your profesionnal future? It would help us to tailor our activities to your needs. That's why we launched the PCDI community!
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Postdoc Retreat - Why attending?
14 January 2010
posted by Chiat Cheong
The date and preliminary programme of next PCDI Postdoc Retreat has been announced, the registration will open soon.
A question to those of you who previously attended a Postdoc Retreat, how did you like it? What did you like best? What was the take home message to you? Would you recommend the Postdoc Retreat to your fellow postdocs/PhD students and for what particular reason?
“Time: fast and invisible”, when you’re at the very end of writing your Thesis…..
14 January 2010
posted by Sabina Lukovac
After visiting a conference in Boston I made my second trip to Philadelphia last month; I must say the more relaxing way to visit a city is without a job interview… Honestly, I can’t wait to start there in April! However, so many things need to be arranged before…
Last Wednesday I joined the seminar of Helen Pickersgill. Helen did her PhD at the NKI-AvL followed by a postdoc position in the United States. Instead of continuing her scientific career she chose for a job as an editor. After one year as Scientific Editor for Developmental Cell at Cell Press, she became consultant scientific editor at Science magazine.
After a long period of preparations, planning and excitiment to find a proper postdoc lab and arrange a visit, I can finally say: it was all worth it!!! At the end of my trip, I was very fortunate to choose between the two labs of my first choice :)
When I came back from Holidays, I went straight to a two weeks course in Utrecht, an Animal Sciences course. It didn’t take me too long to realize that I had forgotten how it is to be inside a classroom, following lectures the whole day, with teachers scaring you about the “Exam”, with having homework to do, etc. Actually, it hasn’t been that long since my last similar experience. Let me see… I had classes for the first two years of my PhD, which would mean… 2006. 3 to 4 years only. Not a lot, but I have to say that I had forgotten how it is.
First of all I would like to thank you for your comments. I think it’s important for the postdocblogs that people share their opinions and experiences and ask questions. So let’s try to answer some of those questions!
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