Becoming a Scientist: survival guide for immigrants and women in science

Let me guess: you have an IDP, you have decided how many articles you will be publishing within the next 5 years, and you have decided what kind of grants you will be applying to.

If you are ambitious enough, you have a mentor, you actively participate in your departmental activities, you mentor others, and you are on top of your projects.

But let me tell you: all that is going to turn out useless, unless you know what traps have been set for you to fail.

Science is an extremely competeitive environment and being an academic professor has become a full political positions: PhD scientists are used by the governments to tell the population what to do, and so becoming a faculty abroad, or as a woman in a patriarchal Country like the USA, is not that simple, and, actually, is intentionally made extremely difficult if not impossible, unless you know in advance how the game works.

Whether you are at the beginning of your career, whether you are already in the US or are still abroad and thinking of accepting a job position there, or whether you have already been a postdoc for 5 years, it's never too late, and too early, to learn how to avoid the traps and smoothly reach your goals.

I have been working as a research scientist in academia for 15 years, of which 7 in the USA, in basic, translational, and clinical research, in public and private institutions, in hospitals and in academia, in prestigious institutions and labs, and I have learned all the tricks that will keep you alive in this huge game that academic research is.

If you are truly intentioned to becoming a scientist, this webinar is for you.

Part 1 will explain all the traps that are pre-set for you to fail. More parts will follow.

Dr. Annunziata Nancy Crupi, PhD

Host or Publisher Nancy La Briosa Crupi, PhD