Thanks for reaching out. I’m sorry to say that this email is too generic for me to consider you as a future student working with me at this time [but please feel free to try again after reading this email].
Your email doesn’t demonstrate that you know what topics I work on. I’d recommend in the future sending only a few emails. Focus on 10 or fewer potential supervisors that really fit your specific research interest.
Explain what specifically drew you to them as a supervisor. Explain what you want to work on with them. You should have read one of their papers, or at minimum, read a description of their research from their webpage.
The type of email you wrote will get very few responses because we receive several such emails. I hope you might take this advice and improve the next time you send an email request for supervision – because I really do want you to succeed.
Here is an example of what I sent to my prospective Ph.D. advisor 10 years ago. I only emailed 6 professors, because I really wanted to spend a lot of time tailoring my email to their interests and convincing them I wanted to work on the things they worked on.
“My name is Matthew Holden and I am a senior majoring in Applied Mathematics at UC Davis. I am interested in working in your lab during graduate studies because of my broad interests in theoretical ecology.
Your website especially stood out because you state that you encourage independent research and teamwork. Currently, I am collaborating with six other students modelling plant population dynamics in fragmented landscapes. We defined our own research
question, and although it was the toughest part of the project it was the most rewarding.
During this project, I first came across your early work on the population dynamics of plants with a dormant life stage – and further reading some of your newer
papers in epidemiology, predator prey dynamics and evolution, I really like the diversity of the problems in your lab.
Specifically, I am interested in doing research in spatial ecology and understanding how populations spread.
I think your work on integral projection models will be especially relevant to the spread models I want to study (integro-difference equations). I am in the beginning phase of drafting an NSF graduate research fellowship application on how to best choose the locations of pest
control when a pest species spreads according to such equations, and think you’d be an ideal supervisor for the project.
I was wondering if you will have any openings for new graduate students in your lab this coming year? Any comments or feedback would be greatly appreciated.”
Note the parts about teamwork and independent research are specifically on this professor’s website where he talks about qualities he looks for in graduate students. I didn’t put this sentence in any of my emails to other professors (in fact all the sentences except for
the first one are very different for each prospective advisor). For most professors, I wrote shorter emails that focussed on how their work related to mine. For example, sentences like the bolded one in the email above.
the first one are very different for each prospective advisor). For most professors, I wrote shorter emails that focussed on how their work related to mine. For example, sentences like the bolded one in the email above.
Feel free to use the above email as a guide for any future emails you write. A general template might be to start with 1-2 sentences explaining who you are and what your background is, followed by 1-2 sentences explaining why your research interests align with the
person you are contacting, and finally 1-2 sentences explaining what research topic you’d like to work on with the potential supervisor.
If it turns out you are in fact interested in some of the topics I am working on, please feel free to try again with a more specific email.
If your background is in a completely unrelated topic, that’s ok! But, be sure to explain why you want to switch topics, and how you might possess transferable skills that will make transitioning into this new field possible.
Multiple PhD positions at the Medical University of Graz, Austria
Deadline-05-05-2021
The competitive excellence doctoral program is open for highly motivated students in medicine and life sciences.
The PhD program implements the third cycle of the Bologna process (the roadmap of the European Union for higher education).
Thus, PhD candidates are seen as students who are offered education and guidance for their benefit and as young researchers who contribute to the scientific success of our universities.
NIPU-EJD is recruiting 12 highly motivated PhD candidates. The offered positions are available with a duration of 36 – 48 months to deliver joint or double doctoral degrees in two different EU countries. The
The fellowships are funded as part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Innovative Training Networks under the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme.
Benefits
3-4 years full time employment contract, PhDs are paid with a living allowance (the monthly living allowance for researchers in MSCA-ITN actions multiplied by country-specific correction coefficient of the country in which the researcher is recruited), an additional
Fully funded PhD positions, Institute for Global Pandemic Planning, UK
Deadline-6-04-2021
We are recruiting our first Institute for Global Pandemic Planning cohort of doctoral students to start in October 2021 on a four year funded PhD programme.
The programme will include participation in relevant post-graduate taught courses and development or refining of a research project, followed by full time research to complete that project. Each student will
have supervision from academics in at least two of the main disciplines of the centre and across two university departments, with at least one supervisor from one of Warwick Medical School, Warwick Business School, or the Department of Mathematics. Students will share
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4. If you desire to leave Nigeria next month, trust me, I am not the best plug for you but if you can be intentionally and 70% passionate about graduate school, then we can talk!!
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5. Dear prospective graduate school and postdoc applicants, please remove biodata other than your name and address from your CV. It's tiring if your applications are been rejected based on DOB, Gender, religion, no of children, nationality and next of kin.
12 PhD positions at the Medical University of Graz, Austria
Deadline-May 12, 2021
The doc.funds "Biomolecular Structures and Interactions" (BioMolStruct) offers an excellence PhD program that provides an in-depth, multidisciplinary training in biomedical research in a stimulating international environment.
The thesis projects center around biomolecules and biomolecular complexes playing essential roles in cellular signaling and metabolism, with a focus on proteins, protein complexes, and lipid / protein interactions that are linked to aging, cancer,
The International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID) and the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) established their joint fellowship program in 2010 to foster international,
peer-to-peer collaboration and the exchange of scientific knowledge and best practice. The program enables early-career investigators, from low and lower-middle income countries outside of the region, to travel to Europe for multidisciplinary clinical and laboratory training.
In the formative stages of their careers, successful applicants are given the opportunity to extend their research experience; learn from experienced infectious disease specialists; and return home with knowledge and processes that will help them improve clinical