Careers Boarding the academic career train at any age Success in any career can be boiled down to three key ingredients: putting in the work, having the right team, and hoping with a little luck that the timing is Carolina Makowski 4 Jun 2020 • 5 min read
Careers An international student’s guide to grad school Are you curious about what it takes to earn a postgraduate degree, particularly one from another country? You are not alone. The number of international students worldwide has steadily increased Janani Hariharan 13 May 2020 • 8 min read
Careers Safety vs freedom: the landscape of post-PhD careers Like so many others, we faced a huge dilemma at the end of our respective PhD programs: after many long years of working in the lab: where do we go Natalia Bielczyk, Elisenda Bonet-Carne 23 Apr 2020 • 6 min read
Careers Fighting the impact factor, one CV at a time The impact factor is probably one of the most loved and hated bibliographic indicators in the scientific community. It is a simple number, really. It reflects the number of citations Guillaume Lobet 15 Jan 2020 • 5 min read
Careers Grants for graduate students Imagine you’re a fifth year graduate student. Your PI had a tragic accident and, unfortunately, is no more. You need a first author publication to graduate, but more experiments Aalok Varma 10 Dec 2019 • 5 min read
Careers eLife Ambassadors organise a Career Day in Paris By Pablo J. Sáez (@pj_saez), Postdoctoral fellow at Institut Curie, eLife Ambassador. A lot of young scientists around you, like myself, may have made up their minds to pursue ecrLife 27 Dec 2018 • 4 min read
Careers Postdoc interview checklist (Part 1): 10 questions to expect at a postdoc interview When PhDs are exploring career opportunities, it is important to ascertain whether a postdoc would take them closer to their long-term career goal. Most PhDs do a postdoc with the ecrLife 8 Mar 2018 • 4 min read
