Your future: How to get a PhD position
How to get a PhD position is clouded in mystery. In a short session, Peter van der Putten and Maarten Lamers talk about how (they think) the game is played.
Friday June 6, 15:00 -16:30h.
Room BE 0.09 of the Gorlaeus Building.
Intended audience: Media Technology MSc students, but others are welcome too.
No registration required; just show up to participate.
Train strike? Join us on Zoom
Due to the train strike on June 6, it may be impossible for you reach Leiden. If that is the case, then it is possible to attend via Zoom. Attendees who do not need to travel by train are asked to attend the event in Gorlaeus room BE 0.09.
Zoom link, for if you REALLY cannot come to the Gorlaeus BuildingMany Media Technology graduates are interested in pursuing a PhD position. Many of our alumni have been successful in doing so.
That said, how to get a research position is clouded in mystery. Is it all about searching for jobs online, filling in application forms and obtaining recommendations letters? Or does the research tribe actually hunt for their candidates and make their decisions in much more informal ways, behind the scenes?
In the workshop, Peter van der Putten and Maarten Lamers ignore all the formalities and talk about how the game is really played, or how they think it is played. They are assisted by Media Technology alumni that landed cool research positions.
Booklet
For this workshop, we have compiled a booklet describing experiences from Media Technology MSc alumni that landed a PhD position. We asked them for advice to those who aspire to do the same. It can be downloaded until June 27.
Booklet "How to Get a PhD Position", Fourth Edition, 2025Look up PhD students
Are you interested in doing a PhD? Then you may want to check our Media Technology LinkedIn group to see who went before you, or what their PhD was about.
Hopefully this inspires you to dream, look forward, take action, and make that first important step in a scientific career: becoming a PhD candidate.