Tag: professorship

My Experience with the Academic Interview Process

This summer, I accepted a tenure-track faculty position as a soil ecologist at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect as I entered the job market, but found lots of helpful resources online. In particular, various posts and resources from Inside Higher Ed, Prof-Like Substance, Female Science Professor, the Chronicle of …

Cornell to Berkeley to Madison: my next two years

I have exciting news about my future: I can officially announce that I will be starting a postdoc in Mary Firestone‘s lab at the University of California-Berkeley this September, after which I will become a tenure-track assistant professor of soil ecology in the Department of Soil Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2016! I am so excited …