Ten days ago I contacted a professor who conducts research in a field I am deeply interested in, to ask about phd positions. He replied very politely that he had no funding available to hire a new person in his research group.
Today, there was an announcement with the university that there is funding available for phd positions and they welcome applications. In the application I am supposed to choose from a list of supervisors and try to convince them via a motivation letter and without directly contacting them.
Should I put the name of that professor or is it not a good idea? Wouldn't he know that there is some funding coming up soon, to suggest to me to wait a bit or is it possible he didn't know about it? Was he trying to politely say that he is not interested in me? If so, would it be a better idea to choose another supervisor or be persistent?
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