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What's your field? In most hard science fields it's impossible to get a professorship if you take a break from academia. (Unless you were somewhere like Microso
by maverick_iceman 9y ago
What's your field? In most hard science fields it's impossible to get a professorship if you take a break from academia. (Unless you were somewhere like Microsoft Research / IBM Research, which are basically parts of academia.)
- Cyph0n 9y agoElectrical engineering. It happens, especially if you worked in R&D and continued to publish over the years. One of the professors currently teaching me spent 5 years at a startup and came back to his alma mater as an assistant professor. He's an expert on botnets and quite active, so that might be an exception haha!
- tnecniv 9y agoDuring my undergrad I definitely had a handful of professors that came from stints at corporate research labs.
- noobermin 9y agoReturning to alma mater and being an expert in a niche is an extreme exception, on the orders of magnitude down level.
- Cyph0n 9y agoI am aware of that. I guess it was just a bad example. I'm sure you can find other less exceptional instances though.
- eastWestMath 9y agoThat is, of course, a very silly cultural thing they'd be better off without. My supervisor spent a decade in industry before returning to academia, and he's a pure mathematician/logician.