Stony Brook Music Professor Margaret Schedel and Ecology Professor Heather Lynch are collaborating on a joint study of interdisciplinary research and recently co-authored an op-ed on the subject, Interdisciplinary Research Collaborations Are Hard, for Inside Higher Ed.
To avoid common problems, Schedel and Lynch recommend three questions you should always ask when developing your academic prenup:
Read the Inside Higher Ed op for more details.
Schedel is an interdisciplinary scholar of electronic music and sound/audio data research and an associate professor of composition and computer music with a joint appointment between the Department of Music and the Institute for Advanced Computational Science.
Lynch is a quantitative and computational ecologist, a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution, and the IACS Endowed Chair of Ecology and Evolution at the Institute for Advanced Computational Science.
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