Employment as a postdoctoral Scholar or Fellow is governed by the Policies and Procedures of Faculty Advancement and Postdoctoral Affairs. Postdocs appointed through Faculty Advancement and ...

The Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior at its sites in Konstanz and Radolfzell offers an international, interdisciplinary, and cooperative environment that opens up unique research opportunities.

For Qing Cao, securing a coveted two-year postdoctoral position at IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., provided “the perfect start” for his career, he says. Like many ...

The Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI CBS) in Leipzig, Germany, is an internationally recognized research institute of the Max Planck Society and is dedicated to the ...

Johnblack Kabukye struggles to explain to his colleagues back home in Uganda why he’s doing a two-year stint as a postdoctoral researcher in Sweden. “If you say you’re doing a master’s or a PhD, it’s ...

As an essential phase in the academic journey, postdoctoral positions offer a unique opportunity for scholars to further hone their expertise, cultivate their research skills and make significant ...

While postdocs are necessary for entry into tenure-track jobs, they do not enhance salaries in other job sectors over time. We used biennial longitudinal data from the 1981–2013 waves of the National ...

When you’ve spent years working to earn a PhD, you probably don’t want to hear that you’ve got more training ahead of you. But if you’re like many new PhDs, you won’t emerge from graduate school to ...

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As you approach the end of your Ph.D., you may find yourself considering a postdoctoral position, or postdoc, as the next step after graduation. Pursuing a postdoc is a career decision in and of ...