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ACADEMIA AFTER THE PHD
João Paulo Barraca [email protected]
!Universidade de Aveiro
Instituto de Telecomunicações
PhdComics go see it, great cartoon!
This talk is totally biased by my own experience and my own conclusions!
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Contents may be biased, slightly inaccurate, or totally wrong.
Photo: Flickr, kyphotofile
DUTIES
• Teach and Advise students • Research • Publish • Transfer knowledge • Participate in scientific events • Participate in university councils
Professor Researcher
TEACHING
• 12-13 hours/week of actual lecture time • 1 to 4 courses per semester • Plus tutoring and office hours • Plus marking and assessing work • Plus creating quizzes and laboratory guides
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• Senior academics have less lecture time
TEACHING• Then you start coordinating courses
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• Add: • Create contents (slides, homework's, projects,
exams, etc...) • Manage students and colleagues • Fulfil administrative tasks
• Reports, Pedagogical dossier
TEACHING• Example: Lab-I (~CS101), 2 semesters
• Created from scratch, 120 students enrolled • No TAs!
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• 16 assignments • 4 short exams • 2 projects • 20 laboratory guides: 419 pages • Theoretical slides: 725 slides
ADVISING
• Professors have 4-8 MSc students/year • Start in September. Defend in June/December • Must advise and guide
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• “A few” PhD students • Must advise and guide • Build research environment
RESEARCH
• Participate in joint projets • National or International scope
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• Participate in research teams !
• Start building a research team • Mostly PhD students
RESEARCH
• Constant search for funding! • Pay conference papers, grants, equipment, etc… • Pressure to get funding
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• Several grant calls • Approval ratio: FP7 EU ~10%, FCT ~13% • 1 Project/year requires ~10 proposals (avg)
RESEARCH
• Myth: You are free to research whatever you want !
• Reality: Freedom must be conquered/discovered • You are free to research what is promoted by
funding agencies • Grants are focused in specific objectives • Fit your objectives in the grant call
PUBLISH• Probably the single most important aspect
• For entering academia • For progressing in the career (obtain tenure) !
• There is no career without (lots of good) papers!
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• Not unusual to see 30 papers/year • After you have a research group
PUBLISH
• Must publish, consistently, frequently • Mostly in international events/journals !
• Aim for high impact factor : high quality journals !
• Aim for high citations: high quality work in good places
SCIENTIFIC EVENTS
• Conferences and journals • Editor, Chair, TPC, Reviewer
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• Standardisation bodies • IETF, IRTF, 3GPP, ETSI, etc…
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• Committees, Think Tanks, Networks Of Excellence,…
MANAGEMENT COUNCILS• University has several management councils
• Mostly composed by professors !
• Scientific Council • Pedagogical Council • General Council • Course, promotion & dissemination councils • etc..
NETWORKING!• Most areas are now multi-disciplinary
• Especially when applying science to the real world !
• Need to collaborate in projects and publications • be able to form/join a project consortium/publication
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• Assure presence in events/scientific groups • Chair sessions, Organize events
WORK IN ACADEMIA• You get to travel frequently
• Varies with projects, events, papers and funds !
• You will feel rewarded by teaching interesting topics !
• You will explore a few novel topics • Its application to solve problems • May choose where to invest your interest
WORK IN ACADEMIA
• You really must collaborate • papers, projects, research
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• but your colleagues are your competitors !
• and the academia is similar to a feudal system • must stay aware of the politics
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WORK IN ACADEMIA• 12h/week + coordinating a course takes effort!
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• Must also write papers, proposals, deliverables • Must also travel to meetings and events • Must advise students
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• You will work a lot in the first years! • expect 50 to 70 hours just to keep it going
HOW TO JOIN?
1. Research topic and experience !
3. Publication Record !
5. Teaching Experience !
7. Networking capability
HOW TO JOIN? (2012 DATA - PORTUGAL)
• PhD students: 19.213, of which 1.859 defended
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• Professors: 21.951 (Univ), 13.531 (Pol) !
• New Openings: 57 (Univ), 21 (Pol) ~4.19%
Source: Pordata and SNESUP
Thanks
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