Researcher
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There are academic, industrial and government or private institution researchers. For example, at some academic institutions, professors may be differentiated as either "teaching professors" or "research professors".
In general, every country has its own large national research centers with different research and development (R&D) profiles. They employ numerous researchers.
There are numerous necessary specializations of researchers, but in large research business institutions, interdisciplinary profiles of researchers are always more frequently requested. They have to adapt to new objectives and to cope with before unknown for them, systems, equipments and problems. Therefore, one of their important tasks is to cooperate with academic researchers and professors.
Positions and the research work conditions of researchers in research or technological laboratories are different than in academic institutions.
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[edit] Positions
The positions of researchers in large research centers/institutes have many specific names. Common positions are junior researcher, researcher, senior researcher, leading researcher.
[edit] Research work conditions
The research activity is organized according to the specific company structure.
Often researchers work in so called matrix structure, he/she is a member of a laboratory or other specialized unit, and in parallel temporally participates in one of more projects.
Many important scientific results of the industrial and military researchers' work are not published because they have either confidential or secret character. As a consequence, many valid scientists slowly became “property” of certain companies.
[edit] Some references
- NASA Ames Research Center
- US National Center for Atmospheric Research
- US National Institute of Mental Health
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Russia
- Joint Research Centres of European Commission
