I wonder if it is even ethical to enlist affiliation to the university if my funding comes directly from a funding institute, I'm buying and using my own hardware and software (down to the HDMI cable and mouse), and the data is also coming directly from another organization. The coffee and food is also off my own pocket.
The only things they provide are electricity (computer, coffee), water (coffee), and internet.
@Mehrad@academicchatter are you managing the research funding account? Did you get support in grant writing? Do you get post-grant award support? Are you going to pay open-access publishing costs? What about office space?
@geospacedman Thanks for your questions. The grant was awarded to the PI and he have enlisted me as grantee to the funding institute. We do not ever received any grant writing support. There is no post-grant award support. We are paying the open-access off the funding grant. Office space is provided by university but is not actively used as for certain known reason the team mostly does remote work. As for Office space, as far as I know, university charge PIs if funding overhead cannot be taken.
@Mehrad The PI clearly wants you. Enough that you could probably quit and set up a company and do the work as a consultant. Could you do that profitably?
@geospacedman Actually due to Finland's law, having grant is different from salary and falls under freelancer category. This means that I don't get any of the salary benefits (work insurance, paid vacations, paid pension, automatic taxation, ...), and I have to take care of all that myself. the upside is that I can quit at any given millisecond that I desire. Zero legal obligation to resignation notice and etc.
@geospacedman About profitability, there are companies which do Bioinformatice, data analysis or even Machine Learning. Among the good ones is IQVIA, but the majority of local companies here are not doing quality work especially when it gets to statistics and Machine Learning (not naming names). That's why it is tempting for PIs to get independent grants and recruite people like me to stear their research.
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