Careers

Faculty and Post-doctoral Positions in Theoretical Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Please go to either our LinkedIn site or our homepage for the latest announcements.

Other resources for students and postdocs on career development

Please use the comments feature on this web page to discuss with the community aspects raised in the following materials.

Doctorate

• A discussion of the challenges PhD students face. Piled too high by Mariano A. Loza-Coll, Nature 486, 431 (2012), http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nj7403-431a which discusses aspects that are presented humorously in The PhD movie, http://www.phdmovie.com

Academic careers

• • Academic Job Posting

    • Physics Today jobs

    • Academic Jobs Online

    • Higher Ed Jobs

    • Nature Careers

    • Science Careers

    • Euraxess

  • Guides to academic job applications

    • The Professor is In

    • Matt Anderson, So you want to be a professor!, Physics Today 54, 50-54 (2001)

    • Dawn M. Formo, Cheryl Reed, Job Search in Academe, Stylus Publishing, Sterling, Virginia, 2nd edition, 2011

    • Julia Miller Vick, The Academic Job Search Handbook, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 4th edition, 2008

    • Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and New Faculty

  • Sources for academic leaders

    • Changing Higher Education, a blog by Lloyd Armstrong, Provost Emeritus at the University of Southern California and TAMOC member