Svenja Knappe will pay herself as little as 5% of her full-time salary to keep her job as a research professor at the University of Colorado Boulder.
All of her salary comes from external research grants. Without funding, she can’t pay herself.
“I had enough funding for the last year, but it’s unclear what’s going to happen this fall,” Knappe said. “And so probably that means I just won’t be paid.”…