What are your opinions on that? If you want to stay in acamedia, is it a good idea? Or are your options more limited than if you would stay within the wet-lab?
Options are limited whatever route you choose...
Are you prepared to move nationally and internationally for a job?
Nationally I would. Internationally I wouldnt.
Thank you for answering.
I am just worried that its easier to transmitt from different experimental field to other but if I do computational PhD (even though I have plenty of experience from a placement year and summer studentships) i wouldnt be considered.
It's actually quite difficult to move between experimental fields unless the techniques involved overlap significantly. A background in bioinformatics or big data analysis is probably easier to use for many different projects.
To my opinion (PhD- Computational Chemistry 2011) currently any degree on "computational x, y, z" has a shelf life of max 5-10 years awaiting for so-called quantum computers to become main stream, then PhD-people become irrelevant as machine learning on quantum computers means the work you do for your PhD in 3~6 years can be produced by the computer itself in the blink of an eye!... There was this article in BBC couple of months ago about which jobs will more likely be gone as a result of advancing computers and I think the irony was that the software related jobs were the ones that most likely be gone ....
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