This book helps guide Ph D students through their graduate student days. Filled with practical advice on getting started, communicating with your supervisor, staying the course, and planning for the future, this book is a handy guide for graduate students who need that extra bit of help getting started and making it through. It concentrates on critical skills and tactics that are overlooked by many other how-to guides.
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Table of Content
Getting Started.- Setting Goals and Objectives.- How to Think Like a Scientist.- Designing Good Experiments.- Charting your Progress Month by Month.- Dealing with Setbacks.- The Art of Good Communication or How to get along with your lab mates et al..- The Art of Good Communication.- Searching the Scientific Literature.- Your First International Conference.- From Data to Manuscript.- Celebrate Your Success.- How to Cope with Your Annual Evaluation.- The Final Year.- Putting it all Together.- Writing Your Doctoral Thesis with Style.- The Final Act.- Lessons Learned.About the author
Prof. Dr. Bart Noordam (1964) obtained his Ph D degree in Physics (cum laude) at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. After a brief stint as a Postdoc in the USA, he headed up a research group at the FOM-Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF) in Amsterdam. There he studied the ultra-fast interactions between light and atoms. Prof. Noordam has supervised 9 Ph D students and published over 120 scientific papers. He interrupted his academic career for two years to work as a management consultant at Mc Kinsey & Company, and returned to AMOLF in the fall of 2002 as director of the institute. Bart Noordam gives short courses for graduate students to get the most out of their Ph D. The enthusiast response over a training course he gave for EURODOC triggered the ideas behind this book (EURODOC is the European convention of the representatives of the national Ph D student unions).Patricia Gosling (1963) obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Biochemistry and English Literature from Northwestern University, USA. After a 3-year period working as a research assistant in neurophysiology at Stanford University, she re-located to the Netherlands where she received her Ph D in Organic Chemistry at the University of Nijmegen. From 1996-2002 she ran her own communications company, with a focus on scientific journalism and teaching writing and presentation skills to graduate students of Environmental Science. From 2003-2004 she was employed as a medical writer with Excerpta Medica (a division of Elsevier). She has also translated and edited numerous books and documents for the industrial and academic communities. A US native, Dr. Gosling has lived and worked in the Netherlands, Morocco, and France. Currently employed as Research Manager at the European Neuromuscular Centre in the Netherlands, she is the author of two guidebooks (Ethnic Amsterdam, Vassallucci, 2002 and The Lovers’ Guide to Amsterdam, Vassallucci, 2003). Fluent in Dutch and French and an enthusiastic student of Arabic, Dr. Gosling has chosen to follow a non-traditional post-Ph D career path that has proved to be both eclectic and rewarding.
Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 156 ● ISBN 9783540333883 ● File size 1.0 MB ● Publisher Springer Berlin ● City Heidelberg ● Country DE ● Published 2006 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2161895 ● Copy protection Social DRM
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