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Finland, Helsingfors (Helsinki)

The HiLIFE - Institute of Biotechnology (BI) is a research institute that operates at the highest international level. It includes 40 research groups and 250 researchers. The Institute is situated in the Viikki science park. For more information on the Institute, please visit https://www.helsinki.fi/en/hilife-institute-of-biotechnology.

The HiLIFE - Institute of Biotechnology, Johanna Syrjänen laboratory group invites applications for a POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER

Our lab works on understanding the molecular basis for cellular communication and signaling. We use a multidisciplinary approach by combining structural biology, biochemistry, and biophysics techniques to address fundamental questions in this field.

The successful applicant will join a project funded by the Research Council of Finland to investigate the micronutrient scavenging mechanisms of pathogenic fungi. They will focus on the structural and functional characterization of membrane protein complexes involved in zinc scavenging.

About the position

We are seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher with a background in molecular biology, protein expression and protein purification, as well as experience in structural biology. Experience of single particle cryo-EM or working with membrane proteins is highly desirable but not required. The ideal candidate should have strong interpersonal skills, be able to work collaboratively in a team and be adaptable to the different types of tasks and techniques throughout the project. They should also have excellent communication skills in English. 

Further degree requirement for postdoctoral position: The degree requirement must be met by the beginning of the employment.

The position is for 3 years starting in early 2025 or as agreed. A trial period of 6 months will be applied, and the salary will be based on the Universities salary scheme for teaching and research personnel composed of both task specific and personal performance components. The starting salary is ca. 3700 – 4300 euros, depending on the qualifications and experience of the applicant. 

What we offer

We offer an opportunity to work in an exciting, ground-breaking project funded by the Research Council of Finland. We have an enthusiastic, collaborative, and inclusive work environment. Our lab is part of the Biomolecular Structure and Function Research Program at the Institute of Biotechnology.We value mentorship and training. The applicant will be supported in postdoctoral fellowship applications (such as

EMBO, Marie Skłodowska-Curie, etc.) and will have the opportunity to present their research at national and international conferences.

As well as infrastructure for biochemical and biophysical characterization of proteins, we benefit from an in-house 200 kV Talos Arctica microscope fitted with a Falcon 4i camera for screening and data collection. We also have access to data collection on Titan Krios 300 kV cryo-electron microscopes at international facilities.

Finland is a member of the EU, has high quality free schooling (also in English), generous family benefits and healthcare, and was recently ranked as the best country in the world for expat families and in the world’s top ten most livable cities. Finland and the Helsinki region possess top expertise in sciences in terms of a vibrant talent pool, leading research, strong support services and functioning collaboration networks. For more information about working at the University of Helsinki and living in Finland, please see helsinki.fi/en/university/working-at-the-university.

How to apply

The deadline for the applications is 31.12. but the position will be filled immediately once a suitable candidate has been identified.  

Application should include the following documents as a single pdf file: CV (with the names and contact details of 2-3 referees), list of publications, and a motivation letter describing your current/past projects, career goals, what you would like to learn from the Syrjänen lab and what you might bring to the Syrjänen lab. 

Please submit your application, together with the required attachments, through the University of Helsinki electronic recruitment system by clicking on the ‘Apply for job’ button.  Applicants who are employees of the University of Helsinki are requested to leave their application via SAP Fiori.
 
For further information and inquiries please contact Group Leader Johanna Syrjänen (email: johanna.syrjanen(at)helsinki.fi). For further information on the recruitment system or process, you may contact HR Partner Anu Roine (anu.roine(at)Helsinki.fi). 

Helsinki Institute of Life Science

Helsinki Institute of Life Science (HiLIFE) is a research institute established in 2017 that supports high quality life science research across the University campuses and faculties. HiLIFE builds on existing strengths and new recruits and partnerships to create an attractive international environment for researchers to solve grand challenges in health, food, and environment. HiLIFE coordinates research infrastructures in life sciences and provides research-based interdisciplinary training.

University of Helsinki

The University of Helsinki, founded in 1640, is one of the world’s leading universities for multidisciplinary research. The university has an international academic community of 40,000 students and staff members. The University of Helsinki offers comprehensive services to its employees, including occupational health care and health insurance, sports facilities, and professional development opportunities. The International Staff Services office assists employees from abroad with their transition to work and life in Finland. 


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Commencing salaries will be commensurate with qualifications and relevant experience.

China, Qianshan/Zhuhai

Beijing Normal University – Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (UIC) invites applications for the position of Professor/Associate Professor in English Language and Literature Studies, which is expected to be filled in February 2025/September 2025:

Job Description

We invite particularly candidates with specializations in:

- TESOL, English language education;

- Linguistics;

- United States and British literatures, literary theory, and theater and drama studies.

 

Job Requirement
Candidates should have a PhD degree in a related discipline. Successful candidates are required to demonstrate promise and/or substantial production as a scholar as evidenced by publication in high quality, internationally recognized, indexed journals and other types of scholarly work as appropriate & recognized by their disciplines. Meanwhile, they are also expected to have a commitment to teaching excellence at undergraduate and/or postgraduate levels. Academic rank will be determined in accordance with successful candidate’s experience and accomplishments.

Benefits and Appointment Terms
Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and relevant experience. Fringe benefits include housing allowance, leave and social insurance. Appointment to this position will initially be made on a fixed-term contract with mutual agreement.

Closing Date: June 30, 2025
 

Application Procedures

*Please complete the job application form and upload the requested documents online: https://hrapp.uic.edu.cn/recruit/job/vacancy/JobDetail/1040.    

 

*If you failed to submit your application online, please send your application by emailing to recruit@uic.edu.cn. Applications should include a curriculum vitae and a completed "Job Application Form" which can be downloaded from https://hro.uic.edu.cn/Job_Opportunities_/Application_Procedure.htm. Please indicate the position being applied for, including the field of expertise, level and reference number.


The College reserves the right not to fill this position, or to extend the search until suitable candidates are identified or to make an appointment by invitation. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse environment. 


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Australia, Adelaide

(Level B) $111,031 to $131,335 per annum, plus an employer contribution of 17% superannuation applies.

 Fixed-term position available for up to 24 months. Flexible work arrangements can be negotiated with the right candidate.

Be part of the Australian Institute for Machine Learning -- the largest computer vision and machine learning research group in Australia -- and contribute to world-leading research projects at the CommBank Centre for Foundational AI

Position description -

This postdoctoral research position is part of the exciting new five-year partnership between the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) and the Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML) at the University of Adelaide. The partnership aims to boost foundational AI research in Australia, focusing on areas such as natural language processing, computer vision, and machine learning.

This role offers the opportunity to carry out cutting-edge research at the intersection of computer vision, natural language processing, and financial technologies. The successful candidate will work directly with AIML Chief Scientist, Prof Anton van den Hengel, his research team, and CBA representatives to publish high-impact research and develop innovative AI solutions for the financial sector.

The tasks of the postdoctoral researcher (innovation) will include:


	Conduct world-class research in foundational AI, with a focus on applications in the financial sector.
	Develop innovative algorithms, machine learning models, and AI systems that address real-world challenges in banking and finance.
	Collaborate closely with CBA representatives to understand industry needs and translate research into practical solutions.
	Publish research findings in top-tier conferences and journals in AI, machine learning, and related fields.
	Contribute to the development of prototypes and proof-of-concept systems that demonstrate the potential of AI in financial services.
	Participate in regular meetings and workshops with CBA to ensure alignment between research goals and industry needs.
	Mentor junior researchers and PhD students working on related projects within the partnership.


Outputs will include:


	Research publications in high-quality journals and conferences.
	Innovative AI solutions and prototypes addressing specific challenges in the financial sector.
	Regular progress reports and presentations to both AIML and CBA stakeholders. Innovative AI solutions and prototypes addressing specific challenges in the financial sector.
	Regular progress reports and presentations to both AIML and CBA stakeholders.


To be successful you will need: 


	A completed PhD in either computer science, computer/software engineering, electrical or electronic engineering, mechanical/mechatronic engineering, or in a related discipline.
	A minimum of two years post-doctoral research experience, whether in academia or industry, including leadership experience.
	Programming experience and expertise in Python or languages such as Linux OS, C++, .NET, and Java, and one or more relevant deep learning libraries and ML platforms such as PyTorch or Tensorflow, Scikit learn, or CARET.


Desirable characteristics:


	Experience in large data sets and their platforms/tools, cloud-based architectures, and deployment frameworks for machine learning algorithms.
	A track record of publications in machine learning, computer vision, artificial intelligence and/or robotics conferences and/or journals, commensurate with experience and opportunity.


Preference will be given to Australian citizens or permanent residents, or New Zealand citizens.

Enjoy an outstanding career environment

AIML is Australia’s leading research institute in machine learning and artificial intelligence. AIML’s computer vision research is among the best in the world. With world-leading researchers, modern facilities and an innovative culture, we’re committed to delivering research that is highly valued by our local and global communities. Located at Lot Fourteen, Adelaide, AIML is the largest computer vision and machine learning group in Australia with more than 170 members including academics, research staff, and students. The institute works on a mixture of fundamental and commercially oriented research projects in computer vision and machine learning. Find out more at www.adelaide.edu.au/aiml

The Commbank Centre for Foundational AI aims to keep Australia at the forefront of foundational machine learning and AI innovation, creating a competitive edge in harnessing AI technology and fostering foundational research into new machine learning methods while exploring real-world application in finance and other industries. For CommBank, this research could unlock further improvements to fraud detection to keep customers' money and data safe, while identifying new ways to create personalised and secure banking experiences. Find out more at https://www.adelaide.edu.au/aiml/our-key-initiatives/commbank-centre-for-foundational-ai-research

The University of Adelaide is a uniquely rewarding workplace. The size, breadth and quality of our education and research programs - including significant industry, government and community collaborations - offers you vast scope and opportunity for a long, fulfilling career. It also enables us to attract high-calibre people in all facets of our operations, ensuring you will be surrounded by talented colleagues, many world-leading. Our work’s cutting-edge nature - not just in your own area, but across virtually the full spectrum of human endeavour - provides a constant source of inspiration.

Our culture is one that welcomes all and embraces diversity consistent with our Staff Values and Behaviour Framework and our Values of integrity, respect, collegiality, excellence and discovery. We firmly believe that our people are our most valuable asset, so we work to grow and diversify the skills, knowledge and capability of all our staff.

We embrace flexibility as a key principle to allow our people to manage the changing demands of work, personal and family life. Flexible working arrangements are on offer for all roles at the University.

In addition, we offer a wide range of attractive staff benefits. These include: salary packaging; flexible work arrangements; high-quality professional development programs and activities; and an on-campus health clinic, gym and other fitness facilities.

Learn more at: adelaide.edu.au/jobs

Your faculty’s broader role

As a member of Australia’s G08, the University of Adelaide is recognised as one of the nation’s most respected research-intensive universities, challenging and inspiring graduates to make a real difference. The Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) holds an outstanding reputation for teaching, research, and quality graduates. Comprised of eight schools, 21 centres and five institutes, the Faculty of SET is responsible for teaching over 8,500 students across our three campuses, North Terrace, Waite and Roseworthy, and has an annual budget of $300 million. The faculty is a significant contributor to the University’s research reputation, earning annual research revenue above $120 million. Many of our research areas have achieved a world-class research rating of 5 in the 2018 ERA rankings. The faculty is responsible for teaching and research across wide range of disciplines including Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Architecture, Biology, Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences, Agriculture, Food and Wine and Animal and Veterinary Science. The Faculty of SET is an innovative and agile working environment that champions excellence, diversity and inclusion in our teaching, research, and global engagement leadership.

Learn more at: set.adelaide.edu.au

If you have the talent, we’ll give you the opportunity. Together, let’s make history.

Click here to view the selection criteria and to apply for this opportunity. Please ensure you submit a cover letter, resume, and upload a document that includes your responses to all of the selection criteria for the position as contained in the position description or selection criteria document.

Applications close 11:55pm (ACDT Time), 5th of January 2025.

For further information

For a confidential discussion regarding this position, contact:

Jessica Cortazzo

Manager, Project and Strategic Partnerships

E: jessica.cortazzo@adelaide.edu.au

You’ll find a full selection criteria document below: (If no links appear, try viewing on another device or in a different web browser)

The University reserves the right to close this advertisement before the closing date if a suitable candidate is identified.

The University of Adelaide is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. Female applicants, people with a disability and/or and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who meet the requirements of this position are strongly encouraged to apply. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application.


The University of Adelaide

€ 2,100 per month (tax free) plus accommodation, travel expenses

Germany, Reinstorf (Luneburg)

HUMANISTIC. SUSTAINABLE. ENTREPRENEURIAL.

Leuphana University of Lüneburg stands for innovation in research and education. Methodological diversity, interdisciplinary collaboration, transdisciplinary cooperation with partners outside academia and a dynamic development characterise its research profile in the fields of education, culture, management and entrepreneurship as well as sustainability. Its award-winning study model is organised into the Leuphana College, the Leuphana Graduate School and the Leuphana Professional School.

fellowship (research humanities and social sciences) at Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies (LIAS) in culture and society

The Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and Society at Leuphana University Lüneburg invites applications for 12-month fellowships in residence for 2026/27 starting April 1, 2026 and ending March 31, 2027.

The research programme aims at countering a discourse of no alternatives. It fosters engaged scholarship to uncover, support and multiply modes of social potentialization by questioning existing certainties and therefore activating new possibilities.

We invite researchers to investigate the historical, contemporary, socio-cultural, epistemological, political-economic, legal, and technical-scientific conditions of living together in a globalized, entangled world.

LIAS in Culture and Society is inspired by the idea of thinking across hemispheres and making plural societies both thinkable and realizable. The inspiration is grounded in ethos of problematization, critical diagnosis of the present, genealogies of contemporary lines of conflict, methodological openness, and cultural inventiveness.

PARTICIPATION IN AND CONTRIBUTION TO THE INSTITUTE

Fellows usually take a leave of absence to work in residence at LIAS on their research topic. They are expected to actively participate in LIAS events and receive support to organize public formats and workshops.

LIAS fellows will benefit from the many opportunities for interdisciplinary and international exchange with both the invited researchers and the artists who also reside at the institute. Also, fellows are invited to collaborate with researchers at Leuphana University and to participate in the university's' activities.

CONDITIONS

Remuneration is based on the guidelines for scholarships of the state of Lower Saxony and amounts to € 2,100 per month (tax free) plus accommodation, travel expenses and, if applicable, a family allowance. Office space at the University Central Building by Daniel Libeskind is provided. For fellows who bring their partner and/or family LIAS will provide support in settling family related matters.

ELIGIBILITY AND APPLICATION MODALITIES

Scholars at the level of postdoctoral researcher, assistant professor or early associate professor or equivalent who already have distinguished themselves with two to three years outstanding postdoctoral work corresponding to the programmatic outline of the institute are eligible to apply. Eligible applicants must hold a PhD at the time of application but not have received their PhD more than ten years prior to the beginning of the planned fellowship. Fluency in English is required.

The application must include the following collated into one PDF file:


	completed application form: LIAS fellowship programme application form WORD or LIAS fellowship programme application form PDF
	cover letter stating your motivations to apply to LIAS specifically,
	academic curriculum vitae including list of publications,
	project proposal (no more than 5 pages/2,500 words) in which you present your research project in a systematic manner (including the project's research question, explanation of the contribution to the state of research, methodological/theoretical approach, etc.) and elaborate on its 3 relation to the research programme at the LIAS in Culture and Society.


The project proposal should also include a short work plan for the time of your stay.

For further information about the application process and for suggestions on crafting a strong application, see: www.leuphana.de/en/research-centers/lias/fellowships/application-process.html

The selection of candidates will take place in spring 2025, and you will be informed of the outcome immediately once the process has been completed.

Leuphana University Lüneburg encourages persons with disabilities and from diverse backgrounds to apply. Applications from candidates with disabilities will be considered preferentially in accordance with German equal opportunity guidelines.

Please send your complete application documents (without photograph) digitally by December 15, 2024 toLeuphana Universität Lüneburg
LIAS in Culture and Society
subject: LIAS Fellowship

lias@leuphana.de
www.leuphana.de/lias
https://www.leuphana.de/en/research-centers/lias/fellowships/call-for-applications.html


Leuphana University of Luneburg

United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi

Description

The research group of Prof. Sunil Kumar in the Division of Engineering, New York University Abu Dhabi, seeks to recruit a Postdoctoral fellow or research scientist to conduct research in the area of computational heat transfer and machine learning for radiative transfer in scattering media.

The successful applicant will use machine learning for solar photovoltaic (PV) and concentrated solar power (CSP) systems optimization, computational heat transfer and radiative transport using sophisticated numerical modeling and machine learning approaches for forward and inverse problems in radiation and fire research. The research associate will be responsible for simulation-based analysis for object detection methods and for optimization of solar energy applications. The applicant must be able to independently design, plan, and carry out the research project tasks as well as co-mentor doctoral researchers, and write journal and conference papers. The rank of postdoctoral fellow or research scientist will depend on the qualifications of the candidate selected.

The position is for the duration of 2 years starting on January 1, 2025, and it can be renewed based on performance and availability of funds.

Applicants must have a PhD in mechanical engineering, and experience with computational heat transfer and machine learning for heat transfer, especially radiation.

For consideration, applicants need to submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae with full publication list, research statement and a list of references (references will be requested only for finalists), all in PDF format. If you have any questions, please email Prof. Sunil Kumar at sunil.kumar@nyu.edu

The terms of employment are very competitive and include housing and educational subsidies for children. Applications will be accepted immediately and candidates will be considered until the position is filled.

About NYUAD:

NYU Abu Dhabi is a degree-granting research university with a fully integrated liberal arts and science undergraduate program in the Arts, Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Engineering. NYU Abu Dhabi, NYU New York, and NYU Shanghai, form the backbone of NYU’s global network university, an interconnected network of portal campuses and academic centers across six continents that enable seamless international mobility of students and faculty in their pursuit of academic and scholarly activity. This global university represents a transformative shift in higher education, one in which the intellectual and creative endeavors of academia are shaped and examined through an international and multicultural perspective. As a major intellectual hub at the crossroads of the Arab world, NYUAD serves as a center for scholarly thought, advanced research, knowledge creation, and sharing, through its academic, research, and creative activities.

EOE/AA/Minorities/Females/Vet/Disabled/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity Employer

UAE Nationals are encouraged to apply

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

For people in the EU, click here for information on your privacy rights under GDPR: www.nyu.edu/it/gdpr

NYU is an equal opportunity employer committed to equity, diversity, and social inclusion.


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