Jumpstart a Research Career, Anywhere

Felipe Beltrán-Mejía and Federico J. Furch

Two OSA Ambassadors, Felipe Beltrán-Mejía and Federico J. Furch, share strategies for starting a career in economically developing countries.

figureYaseera Ismail, a 2018 OSA Ambassador, in her lab at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. [Courtesy of Yaseera Ismail]

Since working toward our physics Bachelor’s degrees, we have always asked ourselves: How do you do research with limited resources? It was a question that periodically popped up around a coffee or a beer between good friends and colleagues. And, as it is for most questions that spur endless discussions, it remained unresolved.

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