So I’ve worked in a lab on campus for two summers and I was mentioned for my research in part of this guy’s Doctoral paper, now the question is - how do I work this into my resume?
You include it as part of your general description of that lab job, e.g.: “…Also performed twerglequorg escalatron experiments on self-nucleated kreebles that were reported [or described/evaluated/whatevered] in the 2005 doctoral dissertation of one of my co-workers [or the lab supervisor/whoever the hell the author was].”
If the writeup of your research had appeared in a published article or book, you should briefly mention the publication’s (lead) author, title, journal/publisher name, and date, but I wouldn’t recommend giving full details for an unpublished dissertation.
Of course, you mustn’t present any such writeup in a way that might misleadingly imply that the work in question is a publication of your own, unless you really did get author or co-author credit on it.
Thanks! Just updating the old resume and wanted to make sure I put that in there.
If you’re applying for jobs in academia, research or education, and you have anything pubished (even as the 29th of 30 co-authors), then you can put it a list of publications. For some jobs, the search committee will just say, “Oh, that’s intreresting.” For others, you won’t get in without publications. It may be helpful, and it can’t hurt any.