Abstract
When you’ve spent years working to earn a PhD, you probably don’t want to hear that you’ve got more training ahead of you. But if you’re like many new PhDs, you won’t emerge from graduate school to start a new job. Instead, you will move on to postdoctoral studies—known as a postdoc in the parlance of academia—where you will continue your scientific training for several more years before, hopefully, moving on to a permanent position. About 57% of US doctorate recipients in physical and earth sciences, which includes chemistry, were headed for postdoctoral studies after graduation in 2017, according to the National Science Foundation and the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics. While not every PhD chemist does a postdoc, these temporary positions have become a requirement for anyone hoping to land an academic job. Chemists bound for industry find that a postdoc can burnish their resume. And for
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