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Jumping out of Academia

Surviving the Ranking Madness: A Geoscientist’s Guide to Keeping Your Academic Soul Intact

Surviving the Ranking Madness: A Geoscientist’s Guide to Keeping Your Academic Soul Intact

The Academic Identity Crisis Ever googled yourself to check if your h-index went up? Compared your publication statistics to a peer? Published in a paywall journal while cursing the system? – Same. Welcome to the slightly neurotic world of academic evaluation—where current incentives often pull us away from the values we hold as scientists: curiosity, creativity, responsibility, and even actual sc ...[Read More]

Jumping out of Academia

Jumping out of Academia

Permanent positions in academia are extremely rare and not everyone wants, or gets the chance, to stay in science after pursuing its Master, PhD or even PostDoc. As probably many other young researchers, we have been asking ourselves: how does life in the “real world” work? To gain insight into the pros and cons of changing to industry, we talked to Prof. Martin Käser (LMU Munich, Senior Consultan ...[Read More]