Hi everyone,
I am considering to apply for NSERC Postdoc award and I heard it became very competitive recently.
If anyone here recently received this award, I would really appreciate if they share any advice they have for both the proposal writing and the research experience/potential.
And another question in case anyone has opinion about:
I know that the criteria is kind of 50 for proposal quality and 50 for research experience (not sure how in reality they select exactly).
I am a bit worried about the research potential aspect. My background fits the topic of research I am proposing of course, but I have 14 published papers only and in only 9 of those I am the first author. My citations are also low (only 35 atm).
I am worried that I may not be able to compete with people that have around 30 papers or more than 150 citations.
Thank you and I really appreciate your advice.