Open Staff Positions
7 Assistant Professor Positions Starting in 2023
Application Deadline: Applications should be uploaded by 17:00 (JST) July 27, 2022
Number of position and job description
7 Assistant Professors (We especially encourage applications from women.)
Organization and Department
Creative Interdisciplinary Research Division, Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences (FRIS), Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Research field
6 Research categories (1. Material and Energy, 2. Life and Environment, 3. Information and System, 4. Device and Technology, 5. Human and Society, 6. Advanced Basic Science). Successful applicants will be required to promote interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary sciences as a principal investigator (PI).
Support
2.5 million JPY (maximum) per year, which is subject to change and is determined by a personal evaluation every year.
Required Qualifications
PhD degree
Starting Date
April 1, 2023 (subject to negotiation)
Term
5 years (no reappointment)
Based on the FRIS tenure-track system, the tenure review is conducted for assistant professor within six (6) months prior to completion of the term of appointment. In case of passing the review process, all will be awarded tenure (assistant professor) or be employed as a fixed-term associate professor in FRIS. If you do not pass it, you will be hired as a fixed-term assistant professor (1 year, maximum 2 years) by a separate examination. Additionally, a FRIS assistant professor may be employed as the faculty member in other department/institute.
In detail, please visit the following URL.
https://www.fris.tohoku.ac.jp/en/about/tenure-track.html
Remuneration
An annual salary and allowance will be provided in accordance with Tohoku University’s regulations
Remarks
Applicants should select one research category in the proposal .Applicants must be requested to select a professor or associate professor in Tohoku University as your mentor. When selecting a mentor, FRIS welcomes those who experience a variety of research environments. Regarding the role of mentor, please visit the following URL. FRIS also asks both of the applicant and mentor to confirm the Internal regulations on mentor faculty.
https://www.fris.tohoku.ac.jp/en/about/tenure-track.html
Application deadline
Applications should be uploaded by 17:00 (JST) July 27, 2022
Requested Documents
(1) Curriculum Vitae (Resume using our provided format ). Please be sure to include your photograph, current postal and e-mail addresses, and your phone number in the resume.
(2) List of research activities such as publications (papers, proceedings, books), presentations (note “invited”, if it is an invited presentation), awards, patents, outstanding budget, collaboration, etc.
(3) Brief statement detailing your research results (less than 400 words)
(4) Proposal in our provided format
(5) One letter of recommendation
(6) Brief introduction of fewer than 5 papers of your research results with the index of ISI impactfactor and number of citation. (NOT necessary of copy of each paper)
(All documents should be prepared in PDF format and the total file size must not exceed 10 MB. Please use our provided format for (1) and (4), which can be downloaded below.)
How to Apply
(1) Access to the following URL for Pre-registration
https://rct4osp.fris.tohoku.ac.jp/en
(2) URL for application form will be informed to your e-mail address after Pre-registration
(3) Register and upload your documents in PDF format in “My Page”
(4) Applicants will be received confirmation e-mail after the upload of your documents have been completed.
■FRIS CoRE (Cooperative Research Environment) is available for your research. It is a new type of support for young independent researchers to accelerate their research activity. Since FRIS members are from various expertise, gathering under one roof and discussing together enables us to enlighten new insights from different perspectives. FRIS CoRE, where essential research environment for Life Science, Chemistry, and Engineering are already installed and will be established for various researchers including Humanities and Social science in future, allows challenging researchers to tackle interdisciplinary research project. FRIS CoRE continues to grow.
Please see our website for application and for more information.
• Tohoku University promotes activities to increase Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and encourages people of varied talents from all backgrounds to apply for positions at the university.
http://tumug.tohoku.ac.jp/dei/
• Tohoku University has the largest on-campus childcare system of all Japanese national universities. This network comprises three nurseries: Kawauchi Keyaki Nursery school (capacity: 22) and Aobayama Midori Nursery school (116), both open to all university employees, as well as Hoshinoko Nursery school (120), which is open to employees working on Seiryo Campus. In addition, Tohoku University Hospital runs a childcare room for mildly ill and convalescent children which is available to all university employees.
• See the following website for information on these and other programs that Tohoku University runs to assist work-life balance, to support researchers, and to advance gender equality.
http://www.tumug.tohoku.ac.jp/
https://c.bureau.tohoku.ac.jp/jinji-top/external/a-4-kosodate/
• In cases where the person hired for this position takes childcare zleave, the term of employment may be extended by up to the number of days taken off for that leave, if such extension is deemed necessary for educational and/or research purposes.
More information from:
Professor, Managing and Planning Division, Junji Saida
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