U.S.: Two Scientists and a Baby.
If you trust the conventional wisdom, Amy Palmer and Alexis Templeton did a lot of things wrong in their job search. Then why did things turn out so right? Germany: Deciphering Cellular Processes.
Biochemist Anne Spang will soon take up her first tenured faculty position--a professorship--at the Biozentrum in Basel, Switzerland. Her research career has taken her to four countries where she has investigated fundamental cell biological questions. A. Forde
France: A Knot Mathematician, with a Twist.
Twenty-five year old mathematician Julien Marché has just started his first faculty job. E. Pain
Germany: Tracking Pollutants.
Next year, German environmental chemist Martin Elsner will move from Toronto to the GSF National Research Centre for Environment and Health near Munich to take up his first tenured tracked position as a Helmholtz Young Investigator. A. Forde
Spain: A Physicist Keen to Put Things in Order.
Many of the young scientists in Spain who were given Ramón y Cajal contracts as a means to prepare for a permanent position are hitting the end of their 5-year contract with no solid job prospects, but just 2 years into her Ramón y Cajal contract Rebeca de Nalda Minguez has already started a permanent position at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). E. Pain
Belgium: A Particle Physicist on Track.
Getting one of the few permanent positions available each year in France is challenging enough, but the peculiarities of the French academic system make it even harder for non-nationals. Caroline Collard, a native of Belgium, was up to the challenge. E. Pain
Norway: A Neuroscientist Making Connections.
A clinician by training, Farrukh A. Chaudhry's passion for basic science has taken him across the Atlantic where he discovered a new family of neurological amino acid transporters. Last August, he just started his first faculty position at the Biotechnology Centre in Oslo. A. Forde
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