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Journal Article
U.S. postdoctoral careers in life sciences, physical sciences and engineering: Government, industry, and academia
2022
Overview
Discussions about science and engineering postdoctoral researchers focus almost exclusively on academic postdocs and their chances of eventually securing tenure-track faculty positions. Further, biological sciences dominate policy research and published advice for new PhDs regarding postdoctoral employment. Our analysis uses the Survey of Earned Doctorates and Survey of Doctorate Recipients to understand employment implications for physical sciences and engineering (PSE) and life sciences (LS) graduates who took postdoctoral positions in government, industry, and academic sectors. We examine postdoc duration, reasons for staying in a postdoc, movement between sectors, and salary implications. There is considerable movement between employment sectors within the first six years post-PhD. Additionally, postdocs in PSE are shorter, better paid, and more often in nonacademic sectors than postdocs in LS. These results can help science and engineering faculty discuss a broader range of career pathways with doctoral students and help new PhDs make better informed early career decisions.
Publisher
Public Library of Science,Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subject
Academies and Institutes - statistics & numerical data
/ Biological Science Disciplines - education
/ Biomedical Research - education
/ Careers
/ Female
/ Humans
/ Industry - statistics & numerical data
/ Male
/ Natural Science Disciplines - education
/ Research Personnel - education
/ Surveys
/ Tenure
