Usually, a researcher or scientific researcher is someone who is professionally engaged in scientific research, technological research or engineering research. Scientific method refers to bodies of Techniques for investigating phenomena Engineering research seeks improvements in theory and practice in fields such as high-speed computation Earthquake prediction, power systems and construction
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". The meaning of the word professor ( Latin: professor, person who professes to be an expert in some art or science teacher of highest rank) varies
In general, every country has its own large national research centers with different research and development (R&D) profiles. They employ numerous researchers.
Researchers work not for students but for well defined short-term, middle-term and long-term R&D or RTD (Research and Technology Development) projects defined in the frame of the strategy of their organizations.
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.
For the above reasons, the positions and the research work conditions of researchers in research or technological laboratories are different than in academic institutions.
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Main positions
The positions of researchers in large research centers/institutes have many specific names, but usually they are divided on three basic levels equivalent to: junior researcher, researcher, senior researcher.
Research work conditions
The research activity is organized according to the specific company structure. Usually every researcher works 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. At a consequence, many valid scientists became slowly a “property” of companies.
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
See also
NASA Ames Research Center (ARC is a NASA facility located at Moffett Federal Airfield, which covers 43 acres at the borders of the cities of Mountain View The National Center for Atmospheric Research ( NCAR) is a non-governmental U The National Institute of Mental Health ( NIMH) is part of the federal government of the United States and the largest research organization in the world specializing in Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL (previously known at various times as Site Y, Los Alamos Laboratory, and Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory) is a Oak Ridge National Laboratory ( ORNL) is a multiprogram science and technology National laboratory managed for the United States Department of Energy by The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, JINR (Объединённый институт ядерных исследований ОИЯИ in Dubna, Moscow Oblast The Joint Research Centre (JRC located in Brussels, Belgium, is a Directorate-General of the European Commission. Research is defined as Human activity based on Intellectual application in the investigation of Matter. Science (from the Latin scientia, meaning " Knowledge " or "knowing" is the effort to discover, and increase human understanding Employment is a Contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. The term profession is applied to those persons who have specialized and technical skill or knowledge which they apply for a fee to certain tasks that ordinary and unqualified people cannotDapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic