My Top 9 Tips for new PIs and group leaders #academia #postdoc #faculty #assistantprofessor

Starting out as a new PI or group leader is a formidable challenge, or are you a postdoc with the ambition to become a group leader? Here are my 9 best tips for starting a lab.
#academia #leadership #grantwriting #funding #productivty #mentoring #mentalhealth #assistantprofessor

0:00 This is a challenging time
0:18 Hiring the right people
1:15 Lab culture
1:57 Productivity
2:36 Grants
3:46 Don't become too broad
5:16 Teaching
7:03 Your immediate surroundings
8:26 Mentoring
9:06 Mental health

Matthias Rillig, professor of ecology at Freie Universität Berlin, talks about life in academia.

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[mrillig]

These are my 9 top recommendations for new PIs and people starting their own research group. Let me know what you think and what you would add, given your experiences.

[Tatiana-kqbp]

dear Matthias, thank you so much for your videos! you are the mentor I have dreamed about my whole (quite anxious) academic life :(

[marianachrispim]

I am wondering whether these tips are more applicable to fields of experimental research (because you refer to labs), but some general advices I think are also helpful for other research groups (without real labs), with the difference that you don't depend so much on financial resources to buy equipments, materials and so on.

[thetokyodrafts]

Your advice is priceless! I wish I had found you sooner...

[YoucefKhetib]

Thank you very much for the advices ! I JUST DISCOVERED THIS WONDERFULL CHANNEL !

[WMH-lvwz]

Thanks for your video. Helpful and thoughtful!

[FionaLynch-zrfk]

This is so useful! Thank you for making such an awesome video!

[AktifSabir]

Thank you very much sir. I learned a lot from your videos and I find them very valuable. Last week I had appointment for academic position and I am now waiting for the response. Hope I get the position and apply what I learned from you, as I have just finished PhD and will start as a lecturer with research work as well. I was thinking to start my own research group.