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Name: Stephen Granade Job: Director of Projects – Advanced Optical Systems Source: Scilingual [original post from April 2013] Excerpt: It wasn’t an all-at-once decision. I took a year or two to decide that I didn’t want to stay in academia. A new postdoc joined … Continued
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