Mastering Your PhD

1. Choosing a Research Group: Pluses and Pitfalls
Patricia Gosling, Bart Noordam

2. Getting Started
Patricia Gosling, Bart Noordam

3. Setting Goals and Objectives
Patricia Gosling, Bart Noordam

4. How to Think Like a Scientist
Patricia Gosling, Bart Noordam

5. Designing Good Experiments
Patricia Gosling, Bart Noordam

6. Charting Your Progress Month by Month
Patricia Gosling, Bart Noordam

7. Dealing with Setbacks
Patricia Gosling, Bart Noordam

8. Mentors, Leadership, and Community
Patricia Gosling, Bart Noordam

9. How to Get Along with Your Lab Mates, et al.
Patricia Gosling, Bart Noordam

10. Group Dynamics: Dealing with Difficult Colleagues
Patricia Gosling, Bart Noordam

11. The Art of Good Communication
Patricia Gosling, Bart Noordam

12. Mastering Presentations and Group Meetings
Patricia Gosling, Bart Noordam

13. Searching the Scientific Literature
Patricia Gosling, Bart Noordam

14. Your First International Conference
Patricia Gosling, Bart Noordam

15. From Data to Manuscript: Writing Scientific Papers That Shine
Patricia Gosling, Bart Noordam

16. Celebrate Your Success
Patricia Gosling, Bart Noordam

17. How to Make the Best of Your Annual Evaluation
Patricia Gosling, Bart Noordam

18. The Final Year: Countdown to Your Thesis Defence
Patricia Gosling, Bart Noordam

19. Writing Your Doctoral Thesis with Style
Patricia Gosling, Bart Noordam

20. The Final Act: Defending Your Thesis with Panache
Patricia Gosling, Bart Noordam

21. Putting It All Together: A PhD...So What’s Next?
Patricia Gosling, Bart Noordam

22. Is Industry Right for You? Opportunities to Explore
Patricia Gosling, Bart Noordam

23. Exploring Not-for-Profit Organizations
Patricia Gosling, Bart Noordam

24. Lessons Learned
Patricia Gosling, Bart Noordam

Keywords: Popular Science, Popular Science in Mathematics/Computer Science/Natural Science/Technology, Popular Science in Astronomy, Popular Science in Medicine and Health, Popular Science in Nature and Environment, Science, general