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Hello,
I have a PhD in computational material science and experience using such computational techniques as Density Functional Theory and classical Molecular Dynamics. I would like to pursue a career in the private sector rather than in academia, however I found out the hard way that the companies that work in computational material science are few and tend to be very small. My question therefore is: do you think it's a realistic plan to try and become a freelance computational physics "consultant" and ask companies or universities to assign me individual projects on various material science topics which are relevant to my expertise? Do you know of other people who have tried a similar career path?
Thanks,
Gabriele
I have a PhD in computational material science and experience using such computational techniques as Density Functional Theory and classical Molecular Dynamics. I would like to pursue a career in the private sector rather than in academia, however I found out the hard way that the companies that work in computational material science are few and tend to be very small. My question therefore is: do you think it's a realistic plan to try and become a freelance computational physics "consultant" and ask companies or universities to assign me individual projects on various material science topics which are relevant to my expertise? Do you know of other people who have tried a similar career path?
Thanks,
Gabriele