Career Guide: Germany

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to a Neuroscience Career

Neuroscience is an exciting and vibrant field, but building an academic career is not always easy. What are critical success indicators? Which tools help talented young neuroscientists conquer the challenges? In this NeuroView, we discuss instruments and steps that can help people progress through the ranks.

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The Compleat Academic: A Career Guide (Second Edition)

The Compleat Academic, edited by Darley, Zanna, and Roedigger, offers fascinating insights into the formal and informal rules for succeeding as an academic. Written as a compilation of advice by successful psychology faculty, it covers the academic career progression from graduate school, to postdoctoral fellowships, to early and tenured faculty positions. The authors provide a realistic job pr...

Nutrition apps: opportunities to guide patients and grow your career.

S OFTWARE APPLICATIONS (APPS) available for download onto electronic devices number in the hundreds of thousands, changing daily. As software programs, these apps range from the simplest of free calculators and games to those purchased, and operate on tablets, mobile phones, and desktop computers. Peggy Turner, MS, RD, chair of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ (Academy’s) Informatics Com...

Technical guide to Set Up a Spectral Solar Direct Normal Irradiance Permanent Station: Study Area- Hannover, Germany

The spectral Direct Normal Irradiance (SDNI) is a basic radiometric quantity from which many other quantities can be derived. It provides not only information about the spectral and distribution of the direct solar radiation reaching a particular location. Accurate knowledge about the spectral direct irradiance shall enable us to gain new scientific results in the: determination of cloud effect...