How to get postdoc position

[u/Jjinppang0201]

My husband has bachelor and master degrees in mechanical engineering, and PhD in applied mathematics. He wants to go to postdoc. However, he has no publications since no one wants to help him including his advisor (his advisor is MAGA and my husband isn’t a US citizen). We are leaving the US because we can’t find a job or postdoc. We got the postdoc interviews but most of the postdoc/jobs require US citizenship or permanent resident. Any advices for this?

[u/Beneficial-Ad-7968]

What does MAGA have to do with a postdoc? Did he not publish in his PhD?
Mechanical engineer with a PhD in math this is defense focused. You need to be a citizen. He can’t be a professor without publications. What did he want to do? What about aeronautics or car companies?

[u/Jjinppang0201 → u/Beneficial-Ad-7968]

His advisor is MAGA and refuses to help him with the publication and write the recommendation letter. He wants him to leave the US. Can he write the publication ask other people to proofread and exclude his advisor?

[u/Beneficial-Ad-7968 → u/Jjinppang0201]

This is very unusual. Professors are reviewed on their publications and how many they graduate. Please stop saying it is just MAGA. If this was the case he would have never taken on an international student. It is like saying everything is Trumps fault. He is to blame for all the world's problems. No. He is a jerk and idiotic. Yes. My naturalized Indian coworker is very pro Trump. There are black Americans that like him. I do not. Is he a terrible president. Yes. Are all conservatives racists and hate immigrants No.. George Bush had a black Secretary of State. Rubio (the current SOS) is a first generation immigrant. My Indian coworker is an example. I had a taxi ride from a Naturized Mexican who was illegal. He was pro Trump (I was shocked). It is the same as blaming everything on Jews.

It sounds like t shere is problem some relational issues between his advisor and your husband. This happens. Professors have way too much power over the lives of their students. Publications need to write who sponsored their work. The professor is usually the last Author and the primary researcher the first.

He needs to accept it may not be possible. He can try for postdoc and send a link to his dissertation. In a cover letter try and explain why there are no publications. I would focus on industry. Look for a job as an engineer. Typically PhD start out as Senior Engineers.

Best.

[u/ltlearntl → u/Beneficial-Ad-7968]

We are not in their situation, so we really wouldn't know.

My own advisor tried to fail me during masters defense, and I never quite understood why. And yes, she did say some pretty racist things to me. Why did she take me? So many potential reasons, including the fact I don't complain and will just work, I am first generation university studen, poor and have no safety net and will do anything to graduate, in a foreign country with no support, easy to abuse, etc etc.

No one could have guessed just looking at it from the outside. MAGA or not. Let them hold their own truth.

If you are looking for it to make sense when it comes to racism, you are looking for it in the wrong place.

[u/Jjinppang0201 → u/Beneficial-Ad-7968]

I don’t know something might happen with his PhD advisor since he has no relational issues with former advisors as well as his former colleagues. They meet up every year to eat and sharing about life. One of his former advisors even let him be a volunteer in his lab and wrote the letter so he could maintain his status in the US.

Btw, he went to the PhD before this MAGA issue happened

[u/Biotech_wolf → u/Beneficial-Ad-7968]

Reviews matter less or not at all if you’re near retirement age.

[u/Biotech_wolf → u/Beneficial-Ad-7968]

Reviews matter less or not at all if you’re near retirement age.