lol, if you want a hardcore career in it, you’ll probably need to end up as a professor at some university. it’s the same for any other research oriented profession.
you’ll need your university undergraduate degree (doesn’t have to be evo bio). you’ll need to do graduate studies too (again doesn’t have to be evo bio, but it should be something similar this time around). the typical pathway is a masters degree, then a PhD, then you do some work as a post doctorate fellow. all these are done under a full professor’s wing. you’ll be doing research (pertaining to his/her studies) and publishing papers on your results. of course, many people don’t follow this path exactly. for example, if you’re good enough, you can skip a masters and go right to a PhD. but quite honestly, you don’t need to be a super straight A+ student. then, after getting that PhD, getting hired as a full faculty member at a university is probably going to be the toughie. each school will look for a certain type of researcher. maybe their department is missing a evo biologist who studies porcupine ancestry and they’re looking to hire. But regardless, it seems pretty competitive. the best thing you can do is to get lots of good papers published while you’re doing your masters/PhD/post doc/and some people even get published during undergrad. publications in prestigious journals (Nature, Science, Cell, PNAS etc) will earn you big points as well. but this all sort of hinges on who you work with for your masters/PhD/post doc. If you choose to work under a prof who’s research is slow and uninspired, then you probably can’t hope to get good papers out.
after you become professor, you start as assistant prof, move up to associate prof, then full prof. you’ll be the one takiing in master/PhD students to do your research dirty work for you, while all papers published out of your lab carry your name on it. you’ll need to worry about grant money. you get paid through the university (which will quickly reach over $100 000 as you move up the ranks)(these figures are Canadian dollars). but you need to find money elsewhere to fund your research, your lab, your employees etc. but you’ll get to control which direction your research goes from this point.
as for website, just search your local university’s employment page. look for the faculty positions they’re hiring for and the qualifications you need. it’s essentially the same general process for all types of science.
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lol, if you want a hardcore career in it, you’ll probably need to end up as a professor at some university. it’s the same for any other research oriented profession.
you’ll need your university undergraduate degree (doesn’t have to be evo bio). you’ll need to do graduate studies too (again doesn’t have to be evo bio, but it should be something similar this time around). the typical pathway is a masters degree, then a PhD, then you do some work as a post doctorate fellow. all these are done under a full professor’s wing. you’ll be doing research (pertaining to his/her studies) and publishing papers on your results. of course, many people don’t follow this path exactly. for example, if you’re good enough, you can skip a masters and go right to a PhD. but quite honestly, you don’t need to be a super straight A+ student. then, after getting that PhD, getting hired as a full faculty member at a university is probably going to be the toughie. each school will look for a certain type of researcher. maybe their department is missing a evo biologist who studies porcupine ancestry and they’re looking to hire. But regardless, it seems pretty competitive. the best thing you can do is to get lots of good papers published while you’re doing your masters/PhD/post doc/and some people even get published during undergrad. publications in prestigious journals (Nature, Science, Cell, PNAS etc) will earn you big points as well. but this all sort of hinges on who you work with for your masters/PhD/post doc. If you choose to work under a prof who’s research is slow and uninspired, then you probably can’t hope to get good papers out.
after you become professor, you start as assistant prof, move up to associate prof, then full prof. you’ll be the one takiing in master/PhD students to do your research dirty work for you, while all papers published out of your lab carry your name on it. you’ll need to worry about grant money. you get paid through the university (which will quickly reach over $100 000 as you move up the ranks)(these figures are Canadian dollars). but you need to find money elsewhere to fund your research, your lab, your employees etc. but you’ll get to control which direction your research goes from this point.
as for website, just search your local university’s employment page. look for the faculty positions they’re hiring for and the qualifications you need. it’s essentially the same general process for all types of science.