The document provides guidance on finding and applying for internships, including through organized programs and by directly contacting professors. It recommends searching for opportunities through internship portals and university websites. For direct outreach, it advises identifying relevant professors by reviewing their publications, and drafting a targeted email introducing yourself, highlighting relevant experience and interests, and requesting to intern on a specific project. The email should have an attention-grabbing subject line, polite language, and include an up-to-date CV, transcripts, and statement of purpose as attachments. Follow-up emails may be needed if no initial response is received.

1. Being
Internjeet
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2. Focus
Overview of internships
DAAD WISE Internship Program

3. Overview of internships

4. Algorithm
Search for new places to apply
Through a program Through personal email
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5. Internship Programs
IAS
NIUS Program
TIFR VSRP ProgramNNMCB(2nd year)
IMSC(2nd year)
SINP
HRI
IISERs
CHARPAK Program
OIST Internship Program
DAAD WISE Program
MITACS GLOBALINK Program
SN BOSE Program
KHORANAProgram
PRL
IITs
1st and 2nd year
Abroad
Tokyo University

6. Information Hubs
Internshala.com
Goforscience.org
(initiated by a IISER Kolkata student)

7. Other Scholarships
SPIE Education Scholarship
OSA Scholarship grant

8. Personal Emails
Whom to write?
What all to write?
How to write?

9. Personal Emails
Whom to write?
•Search in Google Scholar your topic of interest
•Pick an interesting paper
•Note down the author and his/her university
•Go to the university homepage
•Search for the researcher and reach his personal homepage
•Note down his/her email id
•Search a list of top universities in the desired country
•Use Google translate if required
•Browse through the university homepages
•Look at the research interest of faculties
•If it interests you find his email id from his personal page

10. Personal Emails
What all to write?
A catchy subject (doesn’t work always)
Clear and to the point email body
Attach your CV, Transcript, SOP, Program brochure
and may be something else…

11. Personal Emails
What all to write?
Subject : Application for Summer Internship
Not Catchy!
Some profs receive ~30 emails like this everyday!
Subject : A Summer with Quantum Information
May be a bit catchy.
You think of something else.

12. Personal Emails
How to write?
Email body
Start with : Dear Dr. XYZ, …
“Dear Sir” is cliché and boring

13. Personal Emails
Email body
Next introduce yourself :
Begin by thanking him that he read your email
Use bold fonts to highlight the important information
How to write?

14. Personal Emails
Email body
Thank you for taking the time to read my email.
My name is Debanuj Chatterjee and I am a 4th year student of 5-year
integrated BS-MS course on Basic Sciences in IISER Kolkata(Indian
Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata). I am majoring
in Physics. I am mainly interested in the field of Optics and I have
begun to consider research labs for a 10 week internship in the next
summer(May-July, 2016).
How to write?

15. Personal Emails
Email body
Next show your interest for the topic:
Highlight course that you have taken which are
Relevant for his research interest.
Mention a few of his papers that you have read and
found interesting
Add previous background if applicable.
How to write?

16. Personal Emails
Email body
The attached CV shows how the course structure at IISER Kolkata and
my previous internships provided me with hands-on experience in
experimental Optics with a flavour of interdisciplinary research. I have
done coursework on Advanced Quantum Mechanics and Advance
Optics Lab as a part of my curriculum and also participated in a project
on slow and fast light using EIT(Electromagnetically Induced
Transparency) in metastable Helium, under Dr. Frankenstein in Bin
Laden lab in Ethiopia.
You are welcome to contact the references, listed in the attached CV.
How to write?

17. Personal Emails
Email body
Next come to the main point of your email:
Mention which project you want to work on
Mention about your interest in the topic and you want to learn more
How to write?

18. Personal Emails
Email body
The Rydberg EIT project seemed quite interesting to me (as I have
worked on a project related to EIT last summer). I am passionate
about learning something new by working in a project, under your
guidance in the next summer. Please let me know if there is a
possibility for the same.
I am available to discuss this possibility further, and I look forward to
hearing from you.
How to write?

19. Personal Emails
Email body
Ending of your email:
List the attachments
Convey kind regards
How to write?

20. Personal Emails
Email body
Please find attached herewith:
1. Curriculum Vitae (CV)
2. Official Transcript
3. DAAD-WISE Program brochure
Mit freundlichen Grüßen/With Re(gards+spect)
Debanuj Chatterjee
IISER Kolkata
How to write?

21. Personal Emails
How to write?

22. Personal Emails
http://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2015/05/dear-dr-neufeld
Dear Dr. Neufeld

23. Personal Emails
Email body
Dear Dr. Hofferberth,
I had sent you an email on 10th June 2015. I have not received any
reply from you. I was wondering if you have received my mail or not. I
am really motivated to work in an internship under your guidance in
the next summer. Please give me a reply about if it is possible.
With Re(gards+spect)
Debanuj Chatterjee
IISER Kolkata
The “No reply” email

24. Personal Emails
Curriculum Vitae :
Attachments
Transcript :
Program Brochure :
Statement of purpose :
Something else :

25. Personal Emails
•You can use the European template or any
standard template in Overleaf.
•Do not make it more than 3 pages.
Writing a CV

26. Personal Emails
(https://www.overleaf.com/articles/debanuj-
chatterjees-curriculum-vitae/xjxsjkwjpvfn#.V-
_Tj_B97IU) A sample template.
Writing a CV

27. Personal Emails
•If you are applying through a program strictly
follow the points mentioned for the SOP.
•SOP should always be original.
•Try to focus on why you are interested to do
the internship or why you like the field.
Writing a SOP

28. Personal Emails
Something else
For someone obsessed with cartoons

29. Personal Emails
Something else
For someone working with multimode fibres

30. Personal Emails
Donts!
•Do not send the same email to everyone.
•Even if you do never ever CC it!
•Do not keep bugging someone repeatedly with
emails.
•Do not use SMS language.
•Do not site your poor financial condition.
•If you decide not to intern after being
accepted, please let the prof know that.
•Be polite.

31. Thank you!