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EARLY-CAREER REFLECTIONS

Experience is more than the sum of its parts

Nature Energy volume 6, page 2 (2021)Cite this article

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Publication record and technical expertise are essential but they are not the only aspects you need to work on to become competitive for permanent positions in academia. Michael Saliba discusses how actively looking for different experiences to develop his versatility has been vital for his career progress.

Since June 2020, I’ve been a full professor and the director of the Institute for Photovoltaics (ipv) at the University of Stuttgart with a dual appointment as a Helmholtz Young Investigator at the Research Center Jülich. Before that, my academic journey took me to a number of institutions across different countries where I gained a variety of experiences.

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  1. Institute for Photovoltaics (ipv), University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

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  2. Helmholtz Young Investigator Group FRONTRUNNER, IEK-5 Photovoltaik, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany

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Saliba, M. Experience is more than the sum of its parts. Nat Energy 6, 2 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-020-00736-y

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