和导师联系时的一些TIPS：

　　1、选取导师时不应该只局限在Professor和A/Pro上面，澳洲和国内不同，不是只有这两种才能带PhD学生；

　　2、选取导师时最重要的原则是方向match，而不是导师名气大不大什么的；

　　3、澳洲和美国不同，美国导师funding里面有专门给学生的部分，而澳洲基本上没有，所以不要总是去和导师谈钱的问题，应该进行学术沟通；

　　4、第一封邮件应该直接了当的表明来意，而且要把自己的亮点展示出来。

　　下面把我自己使用的第一封套磁信贴出来，希望对大家有所帮助：

　　Dear Professor

　　***,

　　Thank you very much for reading my e-mail.

　　I am a student from China and I would like to seek a PhD degree at your distinguished university under your direction.

　　First of all, please allow me to introduce myself briefly. I just got my Bachelor's degree in July,2009 from **(University), which is ranked the ** in all of the universities in China in 2008. My major is ***(my department ranked *** in China). My undergraduate overall GPA is about **, the second highest in my university. For more details, please refer to the attachment of this e-mail.

　　(Attatchment1: my CV)

　　I have read about your biography on the website of **. There I noticed that your research interests lies in ****

　　I’m interested in ***, especially *** and I'd like to do some further research on it. I have written a research proposal and please refer to it in attachment 2.

　　Thank you for reading again. I’m looking forward to your reply.

　　Best Regards

　　Yours faithfully,

　　****

　　因为我的优势主要在于本科学校、专业排名比较好，GPA比较高，因此我在第一封套磁信开始就着重强调这个，以达到吸引教授眼球的效果。