Labwork to Leadership: A Concise Guide to Thriving in the Science Job You Weren't Trained For

A roadmap for running a lab—and developing the leadership skills you didn’t know you needed.

As a graduate student and postdoctoral researcher, chemist Jen Heemstra learned how to collect data, write papers, and give talks to other scientists. But when, just a few years into her first job as a principal investigator, conflict broke out in the lab, she realized there was one skill she hadn’t learned: leadership.

Labwork to Leadership is the book that every PI needs. Drawing on her decades of e...