Why are you doing it? If you can answer along the lines of for my own benefit/research/enhance knowledge/interest in academia/interest in being researcher - fine.
No point in doing it if you want to do it to enhance your chances of flying, as I can't see how being a researcher would at all help. Independent, but not really intense learning like the ATPL exams or flying.
That's not to say that your skill won't be highly marketable to an airline with 787 ops - not however as a pilot...