Office of Postdoctoral Affairs
The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs serves and advocates for postdoctoral researchers and the faculty who train them at Texas A&M University. As a land-, sea- and space-grant institution with first-rate research facilities and world-class faculty, the university is proud to train over 600 postdoctoral scholars who are performing research in diverse fields ranging from engineering to medicine to behavioral sciences.
Mission
To support and advocate for postdoctoral scholars and postdoctoral specific interests, to provide professional development training and create career development opportunities for postdoctoral scholars, and to be a central resource for the postdoctoral community and their faculty mentors. We contribute to the university’s mission to educate, develop new understandings through research and creativity, and service to society.
Vision
To establish a dynamic office that provides coordinated, collaborative, and comprehensive support, empowering postdoctoral scholars to thrive professionally.
Value
The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs is a specialized, scholar-centered resource that fosters postdoctoral scholars’ success. We deliver targeted professional development, career readiness, and strategic guidance aligned with both academic and industry career paths. We elevate postdoctoral scholars’ excellence through mentorship, community building, and intentional career planning in a setting designed for advanced research professionals.
Expand your Postdoctoral Experience
The postdoctoral community is vital for the research enterprise at Texas A&M. This group of research scholars require specialized mentoring and training opportunities that differ from those provided to undergraduate and graduate students, university staff, and faculty. The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs will address these needs.
Postdoctoral Association
Mission: To foster a sense of community among the postdoctoral scholars, promote networking, support their professional development, advocate and represent the voices of the postdoctoral scholars, and to improve the quality of the postdoctoral experience at Texas A&M.
Postdoctoral scholars receive structured professional development through orientations, workshops, mentoring programs and career-building resources.
Serving on leadership committees, reviewing research proposals and other professional service opportunities help postdocs build their CVs, expand networks, and gain visibility and leadership experience.
Travel awards provide postdoctoral scholars with competitive funding to support conference participation, with eligibility and selection based on research merit, professional development and community engagement.
Postdoctoral scholars’ contributions to Texas A&M’s research enterprise are showcased annually.
Postdocs by the Numbers
Resources for Faculty
Build the foundation for a fruitful working relationship between you and your mentee.
Establish the framework for aligning postdoctoral mentor-mentee expectations.
Define the mentor and mentee’s expectations with respect to goals, roles and responsibilities.
Postdoc Listserv
Postdoctoral Affairs Office
Andreea Trache
Faculty Fellow Division of Research Associate Professor Texas A&M Health Medical Physiology and Biomedical Engineering- trache@tamu.edu
- (979) 436-0826
Shannon Eyre
Senior Administrative Coordinator Research Development Services Division of Research- seyre@tamu.edu
- (979) 862-6437