Reading package
How to pick an advisor? How to identify a promising research topic? How to write papers? How to give seminars? How to land a postdoc? Our professors have compiled a reading package with useful advice to answer these questions and many more others.
Reading package
The world belongs to those who read.
Academiac.net
Pauline Fritsch completed her PhD here in the Department of Biology in Simon Sprecher group from 2013 to 2017. On her blog she shares important advice for PhD students and academics, she writes about soft skills, well-being, careers advice. She is also putting together useful resources for you to explore further.
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Faculty of Humanities Booklet
Concrete avenues for doctoral students and those supervising them
"Conditions for the success of doctoral supervision"
Being a PhD student should be good for your health.
University Services for students
In order to succeed in your PhD, you will need support, new ideas, new skills or good tips. This file compiled by one of our student give you a good idea of what offers University of Fribourg to help you.
University services
Focusing on important questions puts us in the awkward position of being ignorant.
The importance of stupidity in scientific research
This essay from Martin A. Schwartz published in Journal of Cell Science in 2008 has still a perfume of truth more than ten years later. The more we discover, the more we notice how much we do not know yet. Science is not only about certainty, it is also doubts. It would not be called research otherwise.
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