Roya ZandiAssociate professor

Department of Physics and AstronomyUCR

&A former UC Presidents’ postdoctoral FellowDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry

UCLA

Babies are cute but….

Nikki was born in 1998

Received Ph.D. 2001

Professor Joseph RudnickDepartment of Physics and

AstronomyDean of Physical sciences

(UCLA)

Professor William GelbartDepartment of Chemistry

and Biochemistry

(UCLA)

Professor Mehran KardarDepartment of Physics

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Mentors

President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship

Fall Meeting Agenda

•  Balancing Academic Life & Family• CV Development• Grant Writing• Job Search• Mentoring• Publishing and Tenure• Strategies for Survival: Race & Gender in

Academia

President’s and Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Programs Academic Retreat

• Presentations & Critical Evaluation by Faculty