Background:
This blog is about my experience on applying for postdocs, and useful material that I have found for that.
I'm a Colombian student at the University of Rochester working in Probability. My intentions are to get a job in a research university almost in any place in the world.
Note: I will continue to update this page, so whenever you come back you might find it a bit different.
Please put comments if you have any info, that might be useful, you think that is interesting or you just liked the idea of the blog.
As a general comment, the application is different if you are a citizen of that country ( the one that you are applying to ) or not. If you look actively for scholarships and programs in your country that support researchers you may find a lot of opportunities. If you want to go to another country that is not your own, you have to look at the way it is usually done in that country and look for programs that the country offers, which might be quite limited.
This is supposing that you don't have a particular contact in a university and such... that is bare handed.
All:
- http://www.scholars4dev.com/
Scholarships, even for PhD level.
- http://www.math-jobs.com/
Note: there are two math jobs websites if not more (?), this one is more international but you should definitely look at both!.
Europe:
- http://www.euro-math-soc.eu/
- http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/people/
- http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/index.cfm
- http://www.universia.es/index.htm
- http://fellowship.ercim.eu/
- http://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/
Scholarships and more.
Mathjobs is a great place, most jobs are posted there, but if you are US citizen check the other resources!
- www.nsf.gov
- http://www.nsf.gov/funding/
- http://rochester.edu/college/fellowships/
- https://career.berkeley.edu/infolab/Fellow.stm
- http://www.ams.org/home/page
- www.mathjobs.org ( they have RSS for jobs! )
as a comment, check the documents required for each university... I ended up doing some cover letters that we not required :/ , oh! well...
- www.mathprograms.org ( they have RSS and you should continue to monitor this website )
- www.experience.com/entry-level-jobs/
Canada
Similar to the USA, actually I do not know much about the process.
Brazil
Most universities release a public notification, and you get there as a professor if you pass an exam, if you want to work as a postdoc the best is to make contact with one professor that is well established there.
- http://arsphysica.wordpress.com/2011/01/01/aplicando-para-doutorado-em-fisica-nos-eua/
- IMPA
- USP, Sao Paulo and Sao Carlos
- http://www.cnpq.br/bolsas/index.htm
Scholarships from CNPq
- http://fapesp.br/en/
Scholarships Fapesp ( In the state of Sao Paulo )
Colombia
- http://www.colciencias.gov.co/convocatorias
- Universidad de los Andes
- Universidad Nacional, Bogota, Antioquia
Chile
- Universidad Católica
- Universidad de Chile
Netherlands
Every university posts on their website
- http://lists.imstat.org/
- http://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/stoch-ned-l
Dutch Stochastic Group and Dutch Stochastic Community respectively, but I suspect they are the same mailing list.
Germany
Every university posts on their website
- www.st-net.zib.de/index_en.html
- Mailing list: http://listserv.zib.de/mailman/listinfo/st-net
- http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/humboldt-fellowship-postdoc.html
Humboldt Scholarships, for researchers outside of Germany ( most likely has something for researchers in Germany too )
Japan
- http://www.jsps.go.jp/english/
Korea
- mathjobs.org has a couple of posts
- http://www.kms.or.kr/eng/ or www.kms.or.kr
Korean Mathematical Society website
Universities or places to look: Seuol National University, KIAS, KAIST
Singapore:
- http://www.contactsingapore.sg/careerssg/research/us/apr2012
Australia:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Scientific_and_Industrial_Research_Organisation
- http://www.csiro.au/
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Useful links for you
CV, Research Statement, Teaching Statement, Cover letter, etc...
- https://www.math.lsu.edu/grad/handbook/hb9
- http://blogs.ams.org/onthemarket/2011/09/23/applications-for-academic-jobs/
Listserv lists:
- http://probweb.berkeley.edu/news.html
- http://mathstore.ac.uk/?q=node/1447
I will let you know how my process goes, so far I feel overwhelmed by the amount of universities and letters of recommendation.
As a comment, I created a folder for each application and I plan to put the documents and comments for each application so I will know what is submitted and what is not.
