ICRI-BioM is seeking academics to fill full-time position of a Senior Principal Investigator.
Successful candidate will organize and lead research group in the area of polymer or biopolymer chemistry
ICRI-BioM is an International Research Agenda, established within the Lodz University of Technology under the Foundation for Polish Science MAB PLUS Program in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz. It aims at the creation of an excellent scientific unit that focuses on combining polymer chemistry with molecular biosystems engineering experimentally and with the aid of computational sciences. Ultimately, it will be composed of two groups, led by Senior Principal Investigators (one of them being the director, Professor Alexander Steinbüchel) of the highest scientific standings, and three Junior PI groups. It is expected that the collaboration and synergy between these groups, local scientific environment, and international cooperation will lead to breakthrough research in basic and applied sciences.
Qualifications
Candidates should have at least a Ph.D. degree and 10 years of experience in polymer chemistry or polymer systems engineering, international recognition for research accomplishments (ideally comparable to the ERC level), and present effective leadership skills, together with a record as a mentor for young scientists.
We offer
- gross salary in the range of PLN 260 000 – 279 000 per year depending on qualifications
- contract through the end of 2023 with conditional renewal,
- great academic and research environment on the campus of Lodz University of Technology.
Recruitment:
Interested candidates are requested to e-mail the following documentation (in the pdf format):
- brief CV (up to 3 standard pages)
- up to 10 key research and/or implementation achievements (a single achievement is e.g. full text of a publication or a patent, etc.),
- list of key projects for which the applicant was granted funding or played a major role,
- list of key conference speeches or lectures delivered by the applicant (senior position: at the invitation of hosts, indicating the names of the host),
- description of the applicant’s experience in research-industry cooperation and successful implementations (up to 1 page),
- description of the applicant’s skills in guiding students’ research (up to 1 pages),
- description of the applicant’s research management experience (up to 2 page)
- description of unique features of the achievements obtained in the last ten years and their influence on the development of a given scientific field (up to 3 pages),
by July 16th, 2021 to:
Professor Alexander Steinbüchel, Director of ICRI-BioM
alexander.steinbuchel@p.lodz .pl
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