Dear contradirony,

Thanks a lot for your detailed suggestions. I have not yet discussed the project with him in detail but most probably it will be very closely related to my master's thesis and previous work experience. So, you can say that I have enough background knowledge to start with. The Professor is very good and replies to every possible mail in time. I didn't get a chance to discuss research ideas with him as he was on a visit abroad (2 years) during my master's studies. He is back now but I am not sure whether he will stay here for long or not. There are many researchers in the group working on various topics but during my master's thesis my immediate advisor was from a totally different field and was not aware of the topic of my thesis. Therefore, I suffered a lot during my master's thesis.

It is really nice idea to ask his current PhD students as it is quite likely that he was not paying attention on my research because I was just a master's student and may be his approach would be a bit different now. As I have told you earlier, the professor is very supportive and provides funding for conferences, buying hardware, teaching, etc. Some of the PhD students I know were also facing a similar kind of problems and were requesting him to hire a postdoctoral researcher to provide some guidance and discussions.

Research group is good and I am 60-70% percent willing to pursue my PhD in this group.

Any further suggestions?

Best Regards,

Hi DrJeckyII,

Thanks for the kind answer and yes Professor is very knowledgeable and provides every possible support in terms of funding. The only issue I have is the time and discussion. During my master's thesis I met him twice and all other conversation were done via emails.

Hi,

I have recently completed my master's thesis and throughout my thesis work, I was working independently i.e., there was almost no supervision provided by my professor. My professor has offered me a PhD position in his group. He is an excellent person but often remains very busy and does not get much time to provide proper supervision. Whereas my personal preference is to work with a dedicated supervisor who can give sometime to discuss the problems and new ideas. Now I am confused how shall I reply him in return of his offer.

Any suggestion?