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The Estación Volcanológica de Canarias is a research group within CSIC, Spain’s largest research-intensive institution. CSIC is not an academic institution and does not award PhD degrees. However, we are able to supervise, e.g.,

• early career researchers to be enrolled in Earth Sciences PhD programs at Spanish universities,
• postdoctoral researchers (Juan de la Cierva, Marie Curie, etc), or otherwise
• self-funded researchers or visitors who want to spend time in Tenerife to carry out a specific project.

If you are interested to collaborate, please contact me and come to research in Tenerife.

Expectations for a PhD/MSc researcher

You will generally be expected to create quality research-backed work based on the topic we define together, mainly based on your interests, my initial judgement of your previous experience/skills and my capability to supervise on that topic (i.e., subject knowledge and networking opportunities beyond the collaboration). This means that you will need to read and understand the relevant literature on the topic, and then you will need to be able to run state-of-the-art code and/or to implement the algorithms essential for your research. You will also need to be able to self-evaluate (be the most critical person) of your own work. I will review it and help to improve it, but you will always be closer to the work, so must act as the first line of defence on quality (this is essential to maintain a good reputation and relies on a strong ethics of work -> quality above anything). In short, you will need:

• a good literature review,
• a well-identified research gap,
• a decent treatment of the latter, and
• all of this done in a sound, scientific and reproducible manner.

The expectation is that you will do the bulk of the work over a period of 4 years (6 months for MSc studies). During the first and second years is usual to not publish anything, this is normal!,… you are in the process to become a world-expert in your topic and that necessarily takes time (be patient with your progression,… more than you might think). Based on your research, it is usual to communicate results in approx. three manuscripts (one paper for MSc is an excellent outcome). You will also be expected to present your work at conferences and a thesis defence, therefore, presentation skills are essential to graduate with a good PhD/MSc. We will practice those skills during our weekly meetings.

If you have doubts about this working philosophy, please do not hesitate to contact me.

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