Three years as a junior faculty member
In 2010, after one year as a junior faculty member, I wrote up that year in numbers.
Now, three years in and racing towards my five year evaluation mark, I can calculate the first three years in numbers:
227: the number of grants I have reviewed for various foundations
63: the number of articles I have reviewed for different journals
45: the number of grants submitted (32 project grants and 13 fellowship applications)
20: grants accepted (17 project grants and 3 fellowships)
16: grants rejected (13 project grants and 4 fellowships)
9: grants pending (3 project grants and 6 fellowships)
5,513,005: euros given to the lab in project grants
2,842,774: euros spent in research
35: invited talks
13: conferences
6: lectures
45: article submissions and resubmissions
26: articles published or in press (9 primary papers, 11 reviews, 6 book chapters)
3: number of edited volumes
16: number of lab members
5: PhD projects ongoing
2: Masters projects ongoing
10: number of full-time researchers in the lab
(17: number of ex-lab members)
0: still the number of days I've spent doing experiments
So an average month for me is reviewing 8 grants or papers, submitting one grant and getting one paper accepted, giving a talk somewhere, having one new person start in the lab or an old person leave, and spending 80,000 euros on research - and I still work less than my PhD students and post-docs!
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