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Simple Detective Tricks for Physics Career Building and Job Search

July 17, 2016 Matthew Thompson 0

A physics education may teach us to be “investigators” in the research science sense of the word, but the detective skills tend to get omitted. […]

Getting the Most Out of a Conference

June 15, 2016 Matthew Thompson 0

Conferences are great. Your university, government lab, or company sends you on a free trip to a (hopefully) interesting locale. There are engaging talks and poster […]

Troubles with Networking 

May 15, 2016 Matthew Thompson 0

It is a good bet that if you have ever been to the career center or sought career guidance of any sort, someone has told […]

Physicists, Artists, and the New Entrepreneurialism

April 13, 2016 Matthew Thompson 0

Physicists and artists have a lot more in common than most people might initially think.  This is especially true for the physicist engaged in basic […]

Future Funding and Your Physics Career

March 15, 2016 Matthew Thompson 0

Physics is a business.  To be more precise, making a living as a physicist is a business.  Most physicists tend not to think of the […]

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Matthew Thompson is a physicist and leader who has worked in academia, national labs, and private industry.  He has learned a lot of career lessons along the way and likes to share them in the interest of building a prosperous community of physical scientists. Read More

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