Category: academic life
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Advisor of the month: Giscard Wilfried Koyaweda
Editor’s note: Giscard hosted our first Advisor event in the Central African Republic! What is your name and job title? My Name is Giscard Wilfried Koyaweda. Job Title – Research Assistant. Where do you work? I work as a Research Assistant at the National Laboratory of Clinical Biology and Public Health of Bangui, Central African…
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Advisor of the Month: Emiliano Jozami
What is your name and job title? Emiliano Jozami. Teaching assistant and Auxiliary Researcher at the Research Council of the National University of Rosario (CIUNR) in Argentina. Where do you work? Parque Villarino, Zavalla Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of the National University of Rosario, Argentina https://fcagr.unr.edu.ar/ How did you get into your field? As a…
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Explore mindfulness to improve your research–life balance
The human mind can be trained to cope with and relieve stress. This training is called mindfulness. By increasing awareness of thoughts and emotions in a given moment, it helps to avoid getting carried away. Mindfulness is proven to improve mental and even physical health – and now Elsevier’s Researcher Academy is bringing mindfulness to…
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Would you like to become a certified peer reviewer?
The process of peer reviewing is associated with certain challenges. Editors often struggle with finding reviewers for their next articles. Reviewers want to demonstrate their expertise but have no way of getting noticed. It happens that reviewers decline requests due to lack of familiarity with the subject matter, or because they think they are…
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Advisor of the month: Ahmad Samir Alfaar
Dr. Ahmed Samir Alfaar How did you get into your field and what is your research story? My cousins had a home library full with science fiction stories that encouraged me to read more about science, my mother was a high school mathematics teacher that used to build models for teaching, I started to read…
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