I am currently doing my postdoc and planning to join some institute as a faculty by the end of this year.
My entire Ph.D. and postdoc durations were 95% experimental and 5% simulation. However, I am scared that if I join a new place as a faculty it will take so much time and resources to build an experimental lab from scratch. Hence, I am planning to learn some MD simulations (through a friend of mine who has a lot of experience) to kick start my research (in less time and resources) by the time the experimental lab is ready in the new university.
I need some suggestions from the experienced professors and postdocs in this thread about the possibilities, failure chances, risks involved, the correctness of Decisions.
Hello.To the best of my knowledge,based on the software you want to use,there are some documents about commands and definitions on the internet and also on their installing package.So there is nothing to be worry about.Good luck.
Look for places that already have labs. Being lab head from a start is pretentious.
You work with people.
Eventually you construct your own projects and apply for funding (part of the job),
as some simulation is also is part., and get to direct Ph. D. studnets.
Juan Weisz thanks for the response, Sir. I loved the phrase "Being lab head from a start is pretentious. You work with people."
Yes, I am planning for that as well to collaborate with the professors as most of them have their own lab in that department. However, I was scared that in case if I don't meet the criteria by the end of my tenure (which I believe should be 3-5 years), I may get screwed. Moreover, the funding is scarce and highly competitive. Though I'll try my best hence, I wanted to learn the MDS before the start.
Atefe Farahani thank you for your encouragement.
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