PhD in what, where and why?
Amit Kumar Singh
Tuesday, 19 June 2007 22:50 UTC
Hello to all New Nature Network PhD Students.
Please Introduce yourself here and tell us about your PhD.. like..
PhD in What?
Where PhD?
and big question..
Why doing PhD?
It will help our members and visitors to know more about you.
Thanks
Updated 24 June 2008 13:37 UTC
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hi everyone,
I am yasin from turkey.
I am doing MSc in plant functional genomics. I am studying miRNAs in wheat in METU.
why career in science?
a childish dream and science enables to make friends from all over the world easily… -
Hello,
I’m working on my PhD at Children’s Hospital in Ulm, Germany.I’m mainly working on sensitizing glioblastoma cells to apoptotic stimuli.
I got a position in a Marie Curie Training Network focusing on apoptosis research. Therefore, aside from the challenging work in the lab, I will have the opportunity to work in other labs abroad, attend international training courses, and so forth.PhD was just one of a number of options. I really enjoy scientific work, wanted to finally get paid after years of university, and wasn’t yet ready for working in a company (If I ever will). I loved being a student, and a PhD thesis kinda prolongs that feeling.
Honestly, I’m not sure if I’ll make university-based science a career, could very well end up differently. But right now, I’m having fun.
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hi all.
am gajji doing my PhD in filariasis in the medical institute at Nagpur, India.i love to do research for new discoveries rather than working for companies which is very old to think.
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hi i am doing phD in Nonlinear optics
..in national institute of technology calicut,indiammmmmmmm the y part is little bit difficult to answer….both intellectual quest n career………may be
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Hi everybody,
I’m a student of Botany…M.Sc final year,University of Calcutta….India.
I just love research….,and actually anything new, that is unexplored….draws my interest…! -
I’m Fabio from Curitiba, Brazil.
I’m finnishing my PhD in Quantum Scattering in the University Federal do Paraná.
I’m getting the PhD title because there’s no more left to do when you finnish the Ms.C. Its the natural way to follow when you choose to live the life of science. -
Hi, I’m from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. I expect to start my doctorate in Artificial Intelligence soon at USP, and the reason is the same that drove people to it since the 1950s (or before): understand the human mind and create a new species to rule the planet!! :]
Now that is why “Artificial intelligence”. As for why “doctorate”, it’s practically the only choice for working with research, at least in Brazil… Plus of course, there is the status of the title.
I don’t actually like the idea of a doctorate course… Having to do more disciplines, tests, win grades. That makes me sick. Plus it’s not a real “job”. If you stop and think about it, students with scholarships live in a very strange situation, having the benefit of being able to study and win money for it, but on the other hand we are not “workers”, we are not “employed”. Is it a form of compensation?
How much are students second-class citizens? How much is the student life shaped as an ancient rite of passage where the new citizens are made to live in uncomphortable situations until finally be accepted as a new full member of our society? And why does that rite takes longer and longer by the years?
So, why doing PhD?… Because it seems it’s the “less worse” option for dedicating your life for science!…
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Good to see you all guys..
Its really interesting to know many exciting motivations behind PhDs..
Great work..
Enjoy,
Amit
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a maioria de boa vinda a meus amigos brazilian
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Hii I’m Vishal Kalel doing PhD in Biotechnology
At National Centre For Cell Science, an autonomous research institution of Department of Biotechnology, India
Why doing PhD?
i hate the name PhD.. Does it sound good to call scientific research as doctor of Philosophy??
Call it at least Doctor of Science instead.. -
In Brazil it’s just “doctorate” and “doctor in this or that”. I actually miss the philosophy part! :)
I have even seen people arguing wether the PhD title is really the same thing as a “doctorate”, and if it is appropriate to translate one into the other. Some people get their titles abroad, and come here saying they are “doctor in philosophy” (“doutor em filosofia”), while brazilian doctors translate their titles as PhD…
So, if you don’t want to be strictly a Philosophiæ Doctor, you might just come to study in Brazil! ;)
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