This page contains advise on how to get funding, and how to succeed in the world of science. The instructions are written from the point of view of PhD students and post docs working on inverse problems.
Authors: Matti Lassas and Samuli Siltanen.
This page contains advise on how to get funding, and how to succeed in the world of science. The instructions are written from the point of view of PhD students and post docs working on inverse problems.
Authors: Matti Lassas and Samuli Siltanen.
The aim of PhD studies, among completing the thesis, is to develop you into a professional scientist. The goal is best achieved by participating seminars and conferences, discussing about mathematics, and absorbing the "folklore" of the field of research. In practice this means:
Writing of the PhD thesis is a demanding stage of life in many respects. Below are some ways for avoiding troubled times:
After dissertation, the nature of application of funding will change. Whereas the instructor mostly takes care of the funding during the PhD studies, a post doc must learn to get funded independently. To this end, the following actions should be taken close to the end of PhD studies:
In case one decides to pursue an academic career:
This is the end of our guide. If you know other sources of funding, or other suitable sources of information for inverse problems mathematicians, we kindly ask you to inform us so we can update the page.
Although some of the above-described situations seem challenging, keep in mind that experience on applying of funding as well as doing research will be accumulating. When time goes on, even the youngest graduate student can eventually develop into a research group leader. Supporting one another and providing information one's success will turn out to be a benefit for all. Let us keep on working together for a common goal in the future to make inverse problems research glow even brighter than before in the broad field of Finnish sciences.