University of California, Los Angeles · Chem & Biochem
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## Advisor Style & Mentorship PI is very charming, comes off great in the beginning and from a distance, but something is seriously wrong with his behavior towards graduate students. Undergraduates are treated amazingly and learn a lot, highly recommend this lab for undergraduates from a scientific perspective. Do your digging and notice the amount of brilliant students from great institutions, undergraduate labs, with NSF-GRFP fellowships or other independent funding, previous experience in pharma, etc. that have severely underperformed in the lab in terms of publications. Lots of PhD students have graduated with ZERO first-author publications. PI actively shuts down all ideas not his own and oddly, gets irritated when projects are going well, especially when it's due to something the student did on their own. PI cycles through two phases, micro-manager who wants to know all the details even of techniques he has no experience with or knowledge regarding and absentee mentor who either intentionally witholds critical information from students or just shockingly doesn't know it himself. PI can be exceptionally kind and reassuring when projects are not going well, though, except on the weeks he gets extremely angry the lab is not publishing well and starts taking it out on everyone. Biggest warning is that it can be difficult to trust yourself around the PI because he clearly works very hard to project brilliance, so you're left feeling that if you disagree or are hesitant about something, that you just don't understand. Maybe the PI is genuinely brilliant, but I have no idea anymore, because eventually, as you learn more, you'll increasingly notice that he's often just straight-up wrong, which isn't so much of a problem as the fact that he's often very confidently so, pushes back when questioned, and rarely gives any sorts of qualifications. Whether the PI has a terrible memory or a tenuous relationship with the truth is unclear, but he is literally (as in, this actually happened) the kind of person to rave accolades about a book, only to be unable to remember any critical episodes and falsely attribute the entire book to the author of the foreword. He often retaliates against students by unbearable micro-managing, passive-aggressive jabs, and occasional insults. Examples of how bad it gets include publicly barring students from making incredibly simple stock solutions, following them around in lab and monitoring literally everything (glove and pipette tip usage, freezer time, freezer organization, etc.), barring access to or forcing trainings for incredibly basic lab equipment, etc. The worst thing about all of his behavior is that he's capable of hiding it until you've joined, so he's clearly able to control his actions, he just thinks that treating graduate students like this is acceptable because there are no consequences.
## Expectations for PhD Students Incredibly, incredibly unclear, other than it's easiest to keep him happy if you accept having to randomly hang out with him at odd hours and listen to him talk about random stuff he saw on reddit or something. He tries to cross professional boundaries with graduate students, by asking female graduate students to hang out with him in his office late at night, trying to hang out with rotation students and undergraduates around the office and occasionally off-campus, and sometimes drinking excessively around students, but it's unclear if this kind of behavior is due to immaturity and a lack of other social outlets or nefarious. Some passive-aggressive retaliation (read above) is expected if you don't want to hang out with him. You can just try to ignore him as much as possible and meditate a lot when he realizes you're trying to do this and starts his usual retaliatory strategies.
## Funding & Support Funding is not a problem, but older students are expected to TA.
## Research Some of the students are doing cutting edge stuff, but he doesn't let it go anywhere. Lab is unorganized and nothing productive is completed without collaborations.
## Lab Culture The majority of the students in the lab are actually great, they're competent, smart, and ambitious, but you wouldn't know it from the way he treats them and subsquently, their publication records.
PI is very charming, comes off great in the beginning and from a distance, but something is seriously wrong with his behavior towards graduate students. Undergraduates are treated amazingly and learn a lot, highly recommend this lab for undergraduates from a scientific perspective. Do your digging and notice the amount of brilliant students from great institutions, undergraduate labs, with NSF-GRFP fellowships or other independent funding, previous experience in pharma, etc. that have severely underperformed in the lab in terms of publications. Lots of PhD students have graduated with ZERO first-author publications. PI actively shuts down all ideas not his own and oddly, gets irritated when projects are going well, especially when it's due to something the student did on their own. PI cycles through two phases, micro-manager who wants to know all the details even of techniques he has no experience with or knowledge regarding and absentee mentor who either intentionally witholds critical information from students or just shockingly doesn't know it himself. PI can be exceptionally kind and reassuring when projects are not going well, though, except on the weeks he gets extremely angry the lab is not publishing well and starts taking it out on everyone. Biggest warning is that it can be difficult to trust yourself around the PI because he clearly works very hard to project brilliance, so you're left feeling that if you disagree or are hesitant about something, that you just don't understand. Maybe the PI is genuinely brilliant, but I have no idea anymore, because eventually, as you learn more, you'll increasingly notice that he's often just straight-up wrong, which isn't so much of a problem as the fact that he's often very confidently so, pushes back when questioned, and rarely gives any sorts of qualifications. Whether the PI has a terrible memory or a tenuous relationship with the truth is unclear, but he is literally (as in, this actually happened) the kind of person to rave accolades about a book, only to be unable to remember any critical episodes and falsely attribute the entire book to the author of the foreword. He often retaliates against students by unbearable micro-managing, passive-aggressive jabs, and occasional insults. Examples of how bad it gets include publicly barring students from making incredibly simple stock solutions, following them around in lab and monitoring literally everything (glove and pipette tip usage, freezer time, freezer organization, etc.), barring access to or forcing trainings for incredibly basic lab equipment, etc. The worst thing about all of his behavior is that he's capable of hiding it until you've joined, so he's clearly able to control his actions, he just thinks that treating graduate students like this is acceptable because there are no consequences.
## Expectations for PhD Students
Incredibly, incredibly unclear, other than it's easiest to keep him happy if you accept having to randomly hang out with him at odd hours and listen to him talk about random stuff he saw on reddit or something. He tries to cross professional boundaries with graduate students, by asking female graduate students to hang out with him in his office late at night, trying to hang out with rotation students and undergraduates around the office and occasionally off-campus, and sometimes drinking excessively around students, but it's unclear if this kind of behavior is due to immaturity and a lack of other social outlets or nefarious. Some passive-aggressive retaliation (read above) is expected if you don't want to hang out with him. You can just try to ignore him as much as possible and meditate a lot when he realizes you're trying to do this and starts his usual retaliatory strategies.
## Funding & Support
Funding is not a problem, but older students are expected to TA.
## Research
Some of the students are doing cutting edge stuff, but he doesn't let it go anywhere. Lab is unorganized and nothing productive is completed without collaborations.
## Lab Culture
The majority of the students in the lab are actually great, they're competent, smart, and ambitious, but you wouldn't know it from the way he treats them and subsquently, their publication records.
No, I don't recommend this PI.