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Ad Lagendijk Ad Lagendijk 9 May 2012

Applying successfully for a PhD position by email

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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 Ad Lagendijk 4 February 2009

Software, like EndNote, for managing references is basically trash

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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 Ad Lagendijk 31 August 2008

Blowing up your publication list and CV with trash

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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.air-pollution-systems.jpg

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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