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Wednesday
Feb082012

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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