Are interdisciplinary STEM PhDs qualified to become professors? Or are they viewed more as “in-betweeners” and better suited for industry work. For example, someone who has a broad (but not deep) math background and only relevant (but neither deep nor broad) domain knowledge in, say, biology or physics, to write their papers? In other words, such a PhD candidate will be trained neither as a traditional mathematician nor as a biologist or physicist, etc.
Then what typically happens after their PhD? Do they not have deep enough knowledge to join academia as professors in any department?
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