Re: Does anyone know available PhD position about biophysics?
- From: Puppet_Sock <puppet_sock@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:26:15 -0800 (PST)
On Dec 9, 3:55 pm, Brave <mail.swallo...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm a CMP major college student and I'm interested in biological
physics recently. Does anyone know any available PhD positions in
biophysics, especially the ones involving physics much more than
chemistry and biology, so that I'll not be in a hurry to make up
molecular biology, physiology and other biological courses? Thank all.
You should pick your PhD school and supervisor based on
several considerations.
Try to find published journal articles in areas that interest you.
Cruise to your school library and check out the journals.
Check out the abstracts listings to find what journals to check.
Then scan titles till you find a few that interest you. Find out
where the authors are based.
Check the preprints at http://arxiv.org/ as well. There is a bio
section. An active publication history is a very good sign.
Check magazines in the area of interest that are the equivalent
of Physics Today and such like. No idea what the title will be
in biology, but it will be something like that. Find the issue that
shows recent PhD grads and where they got jobs. Find out
who the prof was that those grads worked for.
So, Professor <big name in science> publishes many papers
on stuff you are interested in, and his students wind up going
some place that you'd be keen to work, he goes to the top
of your list of places to apply for grad work.
Once you have a few samples of possible places to go:
Get on google and find their web sites and emails. Check
out such things as what graduate fellowships are available,
how to apply to the grad school, what records and documents
you need to supply, other conditions. Maybe you are not
a citizen of the needed country, for example. This may shorten
your list a bit.
If you still have a lot of places to apply, great! Start sending
email to the profs and finding out if they are interested in
having you apply. If you can get a prof interested in you,
it's possible that a lot of that other stuff can become less
of a problem. And the prof can guide you on things you
need to know, like what scholarships to apply for, how
to navigate the school's rules, etc.
And google for the joke about rabbits eating foxes.
Socks
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