The postdoc paradox: a career without a path
Pansieri et al. explore the ‘postdoc paradox’, whereby a role designed to launch careers now stalls them. With insufficient recognition and no clear career path, postdocs face high rates of burnout and attrition. Structural reforms are necessary to prevent academia from losing its next generation before their careers fully begin.
Authors
- Adriana Casallas‐Vanegas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4711-8148)
- Gloria Dalla Costa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8761-9337)
- Abdülkadir Tunç (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9747-5285)
- Serena Borrelli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3186-1562)
- Sara Samadzadeh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3593-1852)
- Sandy Figiel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3889-3468)
- Silvia Marenna (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1884-5741)
- Luis Alfonso Zarco (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3051-3723)
- Edgar Carnero Contentti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7435-5726)
- Christos Bakirtzis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4737-3707)
- Valeria Pozzilli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0556-0176)
- David A. Menassa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5984-8407)
- Vito A. G. Ricigliano (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8860-3548)
- Enrique Gómez‐Figueroa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0206-322X)
- Sanja Gluščević (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9230-9093)
- Emine Rabia Koç (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0264-7284)
- Jonathan Pansieri (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8918-9943)
- Edgar Patricio Correa‐Díaz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6363-8886)
- Natalia Szejko (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6160-9221)
- Vinícius Boldrini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3984-2689)
- Meral Seferoğlu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3858-0306)
Institutions
- Sakarya University (TR)
- Bursa Uludağ Üni̇versi̇tesi̇ (TR)
- Université Libre de Bruxelles (BE)
- Harvard University (US)
- Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (IT)
- Inserm (FR)
- Università Campus Bio-Medico (IT)
- Universidad de La Sabana (CO)
- University of Calgary (CA)
- University of Health Science (KH)
- University of Southern Denmark (DK)
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) (BR)
- Max Delbrück Center (DE)
- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR)
- Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (CO)
- Medical University of Warsaw (PL)
- Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives (FR)
- Université Paris-Saclay (FR)
- Erasmus Hospital (BE)
- John Radcliffe Hospital (GB)
- Karolinska Institutet (SE)
- Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (DE)
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE)
- Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (EC)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Slagelse Hospital (DK)
- Instituto de Neurología Cognitiva (AR)
- Hospital Civil de Guadalajara (MX)
- Multiple Sclerosis Center of Atlanta (US)
- CEA Paris-Saclay (FR)
- Hospital Alemán (AR)
- Campus Bio Medico University Hospital (IT)
- Brazilian Institute of Neuroscience and Neurotechnology (BR)
- Institute of Neuroimmunology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SK)
- S.B.Ü. Bursa Yüksek İhtisas Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi (TR)
- University of Montenegro (ME)
- Freie Universität Berlin (DE)
- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin (DE)
- UCLouvain (BE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Brain
- Published
- 2025-08-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awaf314
- Primary Topic
- Health and Medical Research Impacts
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00