Ad Lagendijk
9 May 2012
Tags: cv, list of publication
Posted in Tips
Established scientists receive numerous email messages from people applying for a PhD position in their group. I get a few per week and I am sure some of my colleagues get many more. At first sight this looks a burden, but it is not. More than 95% can be put aside after reading the first few lines. In the following I will give a few tips and I am sure that if you bring them into practice you will get a positive response of the scientist you have sent the application.
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Ad Lagendijk
4 February 2009
Tags: citations, cv, Endnote, Latex, references, web of science
Posted in Getting published, Technical (ms word, tex), Tips, useful software, Web 2.0
Every scientist has to cope with the problem of managing references (or citations, or notes, or literature, or whatever you call it.) When writing his second paper he discovers that he has to type a number of references that he already typed in when preparing his first paper. This repetitive action calls for a repository of references. In an ideal world many group members submit their references to this repository and after some time a very efficient storage medium has been created.
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Ad Lagendijk
31 August 2008
Tags: cv, Impact factor, list of publications
Posted in Tips
Having been a member of so many committees in which the quality of various applicant-scientists were compared, I think, I know how to read a curriculum vitae and a publication list.
Please, do not try to magnify your publication list with trash as unrefereed papers and conference abstracts. It is pollution that will irritate the committee.
A serious applicant will lists the following items separately, when applying for a job or applying for promotion:
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