Now, take into account the personality of your correspondent. It's never "wrong" to continue to use a more formal term of address, but it can sometimes become awkwardly too formal for relaxed academics. So, if you are a graduate student or post-doc, and you are at the same department, or even institution, I encourage you to consider using their first name once that initial correspondence has been exchanged and if they sign with their first name. they don't rapidly degenerate into txtspeak or very casual, potentially rude, references or phrasing.
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Graduate students and above can normally expect to be safe to be on first name terms provided their emails remain fairly professional and carefully written, i.e. As an assistant professor myself, I do prefer undergrads to address me as "Dr." or "Prof." (as a US class instructor, not the same as the UK Professor) in more formal correspondence, and I think that's usual in the US and UK. Basically, it's fairly informal, within limits. I was trained in the UK and now work in the US system, and I feel like there is a lot of similarity. If you are an undergrad student in their class, it might not hurt to stay with the more formal title, even if you are of a similar age to them. is OK with a less formal form of address. You will have to read from the tone of the responses at what point (possibly after only one email) the Prof. But I can't give you much advice about that! Of course, that is a subjective thing to judge. In almost any situation, it is probably best to address your first email using the "Dr." or "Prof." title, to be polite, and to continue to do so until it seems that the tone of the responses are less formal.
It's quite important to consider what your position is in this relationship, and you don't specify.
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