How to pick a great host lab for your postdoc

Picking a great lab for your postdoc is crucial for your success in academia. In this video I go through the process of identifying the host lab(s) for you!
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Matthias Rillig, professor of ecology at Freie Universität Berlin, talks about life in academia.
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[@mrillig]

This video had been requested. I hope you find this way of trying to be systematic about finding a host lab for your postdoc useful. Let me know in the comments if I missed something!

[@BelIa42]

Again, great tips. Thank you so much. Glad, I followed these rules which I kind of derived from some of your other videos when I was looking where to do my postdoc last year.

[@mrillig]

Great, thanks! 😊

[@oklu_]

I'm here in the US conference to find an opportunity to a postdoc and this video is really helpful!

[@mrillig]

Wonderful, thanks!!

[@je4270]

Alternative title: how to delay real life decisions into your late 30s and 40s.

[@mrillig]

A postdoc is not for everyone, this is true. But that is a different topic.