Työnimike: Associate Professor (Experimental Photonics)

Työnkuvaus:
The University of Eastern Finland, UEF, is one of the largest multidisciplinary universities in Finland. We offer education in nearly one hundred major subjects, and are home to approximately 15,000 students and 2,800 members of staff. We operate on three campuses in Joensuu, Kuopio and Savonlinna. In international rankings, we are ranked among the leading 300 universities in the world. The Faculty of Science and Forestry operates on the Kuopio and Joensuu campuses of the University of Eastern Finland. The mission of the faculty is to carry out internationally recognised scientific research and to offer research-education in the fields of natural sciences and forest sciences. The faculty invests in all of the strategic research areas of the university. The faculty's environments for research and teaching are international, modern and multidisciplinary. The faculty has approximately 2,700 Bachelor's and Master's degree students and some 450 postgraduate students. The number of staff amounts to 650. http://www.uef.fi/en/lumet/etusivu We are now inviting applications for an Associate Professor (Experimental Photonics) Tenure Track position, Department of Physics and Mathematics, Joensuu Campus (position no 32136) The position constitutes part of the Photonics - Theory, Materials and Applications research area, which is one of the advanced-level strong research areas of the University of Eastern Finland http://www.uef.fi/en/web/guest/research/advancedareas. The person to be appointed should strengthen the existing areas of expertise of the department and make extensive use of the facilities available, though new openings are welcome within the available financial resources. The present areas of expertise include micro- and nanophotonics, diffractive optics, coherence and polarization optics, ultrafast optics, and optical materials research. The facilities available at the department include state-of-the-art nanolithographic equipment tailored for photonics applications. The successful applicant is expected to provide a decent amount of classroom teaching for M.Sc. and Ph.D. level students, and in particular to participate actively in the supervision and instruction of their graduate theses. The person to be appointed is also expected to contribute to the efforts of acquiring external funding to the department from national and international sources. In the currently vacant position, the Tenure Track can be entered from the associate professor level onwards. At the end of the term, the merits of the person will be evaluated to determine whether he or she can proceed to the next level of the Tenure Track without public notice of vacancy. The criteria, objectives and results to be achieved during the term in order to proceed to the next level of the Tenure Track will be agreed in detail with the appointee when signing the contract of employment. An associate professor can be invited to a professorship on the basis of expert statements. A person to be appointed as an associate professor in the Tenure Track shall hold a suitable Doctoral degree and have good teaching skills. Furthermore, a person to be appointed as an associate professor in the Tenure Track shall have the prerequisites for fulfilling the qualification requirements of a professor by the end of the Tenure Track term ((UEF Administrative Regulations, Section 30). The languages of instruction and supervision at the Department of Physics and Mathematics are Finnish and English. For the position in question, command of the English language is sufficient. The applicant is asked to present a maximum of five pages long research plan in which it is explained how the research of the applicant is connected to the research conducted at the department. When assessing the merits of the applicant, scientific publications, successful supervision of PhD students, success in obtaining research funding, international research visits and international duties of the applicant will be taken

Työnantajan nimi: Itä-Suomen yliopisto

Työnantajan osoite: 80101 JOENSUU

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Työn lyhyt kuvaus: Yliopistojen ja ammattikorkeakoulujen opettajat

Maa: Suomi

Alue: Pohjois-Karjala

Sopimuksen kesto: Tilapäinen

Sopimuslaji: Kokopäiväinen

Lähde työtarjous:
MOL/Työ- ja elinkeinoministeriö, Julkiset työvoimapalvelut, Suomi