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The changing career paths of PhDs and postdocs trained at EMBL
Individuals with PhDs and postdoctoral experience in the life sciences can pursue a variety of career paths. Many PhD students and postdocs aspire to a permanent research position at a university or research institute, but competition for such positions has increased. Here, we report a time-resolved...
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eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd
2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10666930/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37994719 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.78706 |
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author | Lu, Junyan Velten, Britta Klaus, Bernd Ramm, Mauricio Huber, Wolfgang Coulthard-Graf, Rachel |
author_facet | Lu, Junyan Velten, Britta Klaus, Bernd Ramm, Mauricio Huber, Wolfgang Coulthard-Graf, Rachel |
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description | Individuals with PhDs and postdoctoral experience in the life sciences can pursue a variety of career paths. Many PhD students and postdocs aspire to a permanent research position at a university or research institute, but competition for such positions has increased. Here, we report a time-resolved analysis of the career paths of 2284 researchers who completed a PhD or a postdoc at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) between 1997 and 2020. The most prevalent career outcome was Academia: Principal Investigator (636/2284=27.8% of alumni), followed by Academia: Other (16.8%), Science-related Non-research (15.3%), Industry Research (14.5%), Academia: Postdoc (10.7%) and Non-science-related (4%); we were unable to determine the career path of the remaining 10.9% of alumni. While positions in Academia (Principal Investigator, Postdoc and Other) remained the most common destination for more recent alumni, entry into Science-related Non-research, Industry Research and Non-science-related positions has increased over time, and entry into Academia: Principal Investigator positions has decreased. Our analysis also reveals information on a number of factors – including publication records – that correlate with the career paths followed by researchers. |
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spelling | pubmed-106669302023-11-23 The changing career paths of PhDs and postdocs trained at EMBL Lu, Junyan Velten, Britta Klaus, Bernd Ramm, Mauricio Huber, Wolfgang Coulthard-Graf, Rachel eLife Feature Article Individuals with PhDs and postdoctoral experience in the life sciences can pursue a variety of career paths. Many PhD students and postdocs aspire to a permanent research position at a university or research institute, but competition for such positions has increased. Here, we report a time-resolved analysis of the career paths of 2284 researchers who completed a PhD or a postdoc at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) between 1997 and 2020. The most prevalent career outcome was Academia: Principal Investigator (636/2284=27.8% of alumni), followed by Academia: Other (16.8%), Science-related Non-research (15.3%), Industry Research (14.5%), Academia: Postdoc (10.7%) and Non-science-related (4%); we were unable to determine the career path of the remaining 10.9% of alumni. While positions in Academia (Principal Investigator, Postdoc and Other) remained the most common destination for more recent alumni, entry into Science-related Non-research, Industry Research and Non-science-related positions has increased over time, and entry into Academia: Principal Investigator positions has decreased. Our analysis also reveals information on a number of factors – including publication records – that correlate with the career paths followed by researchers. eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2023-11-23 /pmc/articles/PMC10666930/ /pubmed/37994719 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.78706 Text en © 2023, Lu et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Feature Article Lu, Junyan Velten, Britta Klaus, Bernd Ramm, Mauricio Huber, Wolfgang Coulthard-Graf, Rachel The changing career paths of PhDs and postdocs trained at EMBL |
title | The changing career paths of PhDs and postdocs trained at EMBL |
title_full | The changing career paths of PhDs and postdocs trained at EMBL |
title_fullStr | The changing career paths of PhDs and postdocs trained at EMBL |
title_full_unstemmed | The changing career paths of PhDs and postdocs trained at EMBL |
title_short | The changing career paths of PhDs and postdocs trained at EMBL |
title_sort | changing career paths of phds and postdocs trained at embl |
topic | Feature Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10666930/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37994719 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.78706 |
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