Description
Chapter 1. "Carving Your Own Path" - shaping your scientific identity
Chapter 2. The Two Cornerstones of Academic Research: Writing Grant Applications and Publications
Chapter 3. Setting up a Successful Research GroupChapter 4. Leading Your Research Group as a Principal Investigator
Chapter 5. The Daily Work of Principal Investigators
Chapter 6. Dealing with Failure and Stress in Academic Research
Chapter 7. Thoughts of Principal Investigators about Work, Science, and Themselves
Chapter 8. Under the Hood - Common Thinking Patterns of Principal Investigators
Chapter 9. Epilogue
Chapter 10. MethodsReferences
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Author: Béla Z. Schmidt
Publisher: Springer
Published: 11/05/2021
Pages: 140
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9783030855703
ISBN10: 3030855708
BISAC Categories:
- Medical | General
- Psychology | Psychotherapy | General
- Education | Administration | General
About the Author
Béla Z Schmidt trained to be an immunologist when he was earning his PhD in Hungary, but he got interested in cell biology and protein quality control during his first postdoctoral position. He studied how cells handle various disease-associated misfolded proteins as he was going through a succession of postdoctoral positions in the USA, first at Washington University and then the University of Pittsburgh.
Béla returned to Europe and got a Marie Curie fellowship to study the aggregation of a tumour suppressor protein at KU Leuven in Belgium. He had to move on due to lack of funding and had a brief but pleasant engagement at a small biotechnology company in Hungary.
He returned to KU Leuven to be an innovation manager but this position turned out to be a poor fit for him, after all. Béla is now a senior staff employee at the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) and working as a science writer in the Switch Laboratory at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research.