Hi,

Thanks. It is a good idea :)

nice one! High five !

Thanks for your message and your support. Sadly I cannot change him. My scholarship comes from his grant. But I will resign unless he starts to be a human (unlikely).

Many thanks for your kind supporting reply. I talked to the head of department and he seem to be defending my supervisor. I feel being victimised but I gonna see a solicitor. Sadly my scholarship comes from his grant not from the university. Conclusion: never accept scholarship from supervisor grants since they will use it to control you :(. I will resign if they cannot make him be a PHD supervisor not an early childhood teacher. ;). It is so toxic for my health as I was told by medical professionals.

Thanks for your reply and kind advice.
Well, true, I do not need another PhD degree. I started it only because I loved it. But this bullying has been so damaging to my health and my self-esteem in Physics that I cannot help but take it very personally. :(
I would love to apply my skills to any area specially finance ( I know how cool it would be) but I also want to do my research. I have spent one year on this research and I have produced many publishable results. It is just hard to leave it, but if he wants to continue to bully me (which I am sure it will be the case), I will leave as soon as I proceed with my complaint. I will not subject myself to this illegal treatment but I like to know why he is doing that? why me? I have never disrespected him and I did everything he wanted (although it was mostly stupid). Do you think that he suffers from some sort of mental disorder and enjoys hurting people??? He humiliates me about things I expect to be rewarded. He sends me more unpleasant hurtful emails when I am on a sick leave! So recently whenever I am sick, I take an annual leave so that his "problem" is not triggered. If he suffers from some mental issue, then there must be ways to help him and consequently help me and others?

I am doing a PhD in Physics and my PhD supervisor has been bullying me for nearly a year (i started last year and he started to bully me when i was a few months into my PhD). I have been very stressed and unhappy about it and had to see doctors. He likes to control every small trivial tiny aspect of my work, like tiny issues in my plots. He micromanages me so much that I feel like I am a 5 yr old. He requires me to ask his permission *before* I do any calculation. He interrogates me in our weekly meetings like I am a criminal. For example he asks me to repeat what he just had told me! He intimidates me by questioning me like a silly child. He tells me I "exhibit lack of judgement" and I "overestimate my abilities" and so I have to do some "soul searching". He hugely criticise me for every tiny issue and requires me to overwork to the extent that I often have no time to eat lunch and I have to work at night and during weekends. I have already another PhD in computer science (this one would be my second PhD) and I have got a very great track record in computer science but he even undermines my computer science knowledge constantly (he even does not know a programming language,little about statistics, but he is a good physicist). I receive really very good feedback about my current research from everyone in the department except him. I have respected him too much till recently and never objected till a few days ago. I am making formal complaint against him as he seem to become more controlling and bullying day by day. I am wondering if you have any idea why he is so controlling and bullying? Other students also find him very controlling but not to this extent. Do you think he has some sort of personality disorder or what??? Any advice?