5.5 Lab travel

The lab will typically pay for full-time lab members to present their work at major conferences (e.g., SFN, AChemS, ECRO, ISOT). In general, the work should be "new" in that it has not been presented previously, and it should be appropriate for the conference. This will usually result in one conference per year. When I set our grant budgets, I estimate €1500 per trip, so your reimbursable costs should be around that amount or less. Meal costs will be reimbursed for people who are presenting work from the lab. The lab will also pay for new grad students and postdocs to attend one conference in their first year in lab (i.e., without presenting). If you wish to attend any other conference outside of these guidelines, under some circumstances I may be willing to have the lab reimburse you for the registration fee. If travel expenses are being paid off of a grant, additional restrictions may apply (talk to me). All of these guidelines, of course, depend on the availability of funds. Lab members are required to apply for other sources of funding available to them (e.g., travel awards).