Mentors provide advice and support to help a junior person to fit in; sponsors create opportunities and visibility to help junior researchers move up. Mentors form one-to-one relationships, but sponsors help to form connections and create tailored opportunities to move the person whom they have sponsored up the career ladder. Sponsorship requires advocacy on behalf of the junior researcher; mentorship does not. π π
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00123-z
Youβve heard of mentorship in science, but what about sponsorship?
Senior academics need to understand how the two differ, and how sponsorship can promote diversity in research.
Please allow me to point you to my new research webpage:
https://materials-theory.group. Hope you will find it helpful.
MATERIALS THEORY GROUP
Welcome to the Materials Theory Group (μ¬λ£ μ΄λ‘ μ°κ΅¬μ€) in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (μ μμ¬κ³΅νκ³Ό) of Yonsei University (μ°μΈλνκ΅), Seoul, KOREA
Tried
#ChatGPT today for the first time. I asked "Please provide me a history of surface oxides on metals" and I must say I was impressed! π
My research website is believed to be hacked. I have taken it down for now. Perhaps I need a more reliable service provider! π€¨
π Sipping my hot tea, listening to Christmas carols, pondering on life (in general) -- Feeling happy and relaxed. I sincerely hope that 2023 will be a year of reset for me (in all aspects!) -- Motivated! π
Dear friends, family, and collaborators, 2022 has been such a memorable year! For me, the most memorable: To really live happily: (1) Learn to accept/celebrate failures, and (2) learn to forgive and forget! I hope 2023 will be another awesome year! π βοΈ βοΈ π
Most of my alumni have moved to (senior) research positions in industry or are currently in their postdoc positions, but Woosun is the first alumni of MTG to take on a professorship and he makes me very proud! π I encourage and support students to both academia and industry but this just feels like a little βyes!β in my βacademic bucket listβ π Well done, Asst. Prof. Jang! p.s. Woosun is also an AvH fellow so talk about following the footsteps β¦ π€£
Jan Jensen
Johannes Margraf