Soft skills to be happy and productive in science / academia
Requirements
- Interest in or curiosity about working in academia
Description
This course provides an overview of "soft skills" that are important for a successful and satisfying career in academia. In addition to the video lectures, the course comes with an 80-page ebook (pdf format) that provides additional details about each topic.
If you are in academia or are considering a career in academia, then I hope you find this short course informative and useful!
Who this course is for:
- Students
- Postdocs
- Junior faculty
- Anyone curious about working in academia
Course content
- 02:42How to learn from this course
- 01:15Download the ebook
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Instructor
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- 20,520 Reviews
- 103,463 Students
- 20 Courses
I am a neuroscientist (brain scientist) and associate professor at the Radboud University in the Netherlands. I have an active research lab that has been funded by the US, German, and Dutch governments, European Union, hospitals, and private organizations.
But you're here because of my teaching, so let me tell you about that:
I have 20 years of experience teaching programming, data analysis, signal processing, statistics, linear algebra, and experiment design. I've taught undergraduate students, PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers, and full professors. I teach in "traditional" university courses, special week-long intensive courses, and Nobel prize-winning research labs. I have >80 hours of online lectures on neuroscience data analysis that you can find on my website and youtube channel. And I've written several technical books about these topics with a few more on the way.
I'm not trying to show off -- I'm trying to convince you that you've come to the right place to maximize your learning from an instructor who has spent two decades refining and perfecting his teaching style.
Over 94,000 students have watched over 6,500,000 minutes of my courses (that's over 12 years of continuous learning). Come find out why!
I have several free courses that you can enroll in. Try them out! You got nothing to lose ;)
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