Female Professor or Associate Professor Position Announcement Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University

1 Feb 2024
Job Information

Organisation/Company

Kyushu University

Department

Faculty and Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering

Research Field

Technology
Engineering
Physics
Chemistry
Computer science
Information science

Researcher Profile

Leading Researcher (R4)
Established Researcher (R3)

Country

Japan

Application Deadline

29 Feb 2024 - 23:59 (UTC)

Type of Contract

Permanent

Job Status

Not Applicable

Hours Per Week

See description

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?

Not funded by an EU programme

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

No

Offer Description

[Background of the recruitment and description of the project]
* Background of the recruitment and description of the project
In accordance with Article 8 of the Equal Employment Opportunity Law (Special Provisions on measures pertaining to female workers), we will conduct open recruitment limited to female applicants as a measure to actively improve the current situation in which the percentage of female faculty members is considerably low.

[Work content and job description]
Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University conducts, making full use of its unique feature as a faculty covering both information science/technology and electrical/electronic engineering in a unified way and cooperating with researchers in other related fields, creative research that contributes to the sustainable development of society and provides education based on it. Opening up new fields needs diversity in researchers. Therefore, the faculty seeks a female faculty member. To employ an excellent researcher, we do not specify any particular research field but plan to employ a faculty member from a wide range of fields related to electrical, electronic, and information technology, including the areas of specialization exemplified below.
Specialties: Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Algorithm, Theoretical Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Information Theory, Information Security, Game Theory, Natural Language Processing, Cognitive Science, Brain Science, Quantum Computer, Quantum Information Processing, Optimization, Computer Architecture, Semiconductor Integrated Circuits/Design Technology, Information Network, Software, Robotics, Perceptual Information Processing, AR/VR/Interaction, X-Informatics, Communication, Information Processing/Storage/Transmission Devices, Sensing, Signal Processing, Real World Modeling, Control, Cyber Physical Systems, IoT, Medical Engineering, Welfare Engineering, Power Electronics, Multi-agent System, Design, Materials, Process, and Evaluation of Optical Devices, Optoelectronic Devices, Semiconductors, Spintronics, Sensors, and so on.

Job Description:
- Conducting education and research in the relevant specialties listed above at an appropriate Department in the Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering

* Assigned department
Existing departments

[Work location]
* Address
819-0395 Fukuoka Kyushu University Ito Campus, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan

[Number of hired]
Number of hired:1 person(s)
Job content supplemental explanation:Date of Employment: 1 June 2024 or later

Requirements
Additional Information
Benefits

[Compensation]
* Leading Researcher (R4)
Annual salary:8 million yen
Working hours:08:30-17:15
Holidays :Saturdays, Sundays, public holidays, and days from December 29 to January 3
Overtime and other explanations:Working Hours, Break Time, and Overtime Work: 7 hours and 45 minutes per day based on the discretionary labor system for professional work.
Employment type:Regular employee
Contract period:Tenured
Probationary period:Probationary period present
Probationary period description:Regular full-time (not fixed-term contract) with a trial employment period of three months.

* Established Researcher (R3)
Annual salary:6 million yen
Working hours:08:30-17:15
Holidays :Saturdays, Sundays, public holidays, and days from December 29 to January 3
Overtime and other explanations:Working Hours, Break Time, and Overtime Work: 7 hours and 45 minutes per day based on the discretionary labor system for professional work.
Employment type:Regular employee
Contract period:Tenured
Probationary period:Probationary period present
Probationary period description:Regular full-time (not fixed-term contract) with a trial employment period of three months.

[Various systems]
Pay increase system:available
Bonus:available
Retirement allowances:available
Transportation expenses:available
Retirement age:available

[Insurance]
Employees' Health Insurance:available
Employees' Pension Insurance:available
Worker's accident insurance:available
Employment insurance:available

[Measures for preventing passive smoking at the workplace]
Kyushu University prohibits the smoking on the premises to avoid exposure of environmental tobacco smoke.

[Supplementary explanation of compensation]
(i) In line with the Basic Act for a Gender-Equal Society (Act No. 78 of 1999), Kyushu University is an equal opportunity employer: http://danjyo.kyushu-u.ac.jp .
The Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University supports its female members in the following ways aiming at reducing barriers to gender equity in employment opportunities:
- Research funding for five years after employment
- Research support for three years after giving birth to a child
The university has more supports. The details can be found at,
https://danjyo.kyushu-u.ac.jp/data/kyudai_handbook_2023.pdf (in Japanese)
(ii) Kyushu University is an equal opportunity employer and follows the principle of Basic Act for Persons with Disabilities (Act No. 84 of 1970), Act on Employment Promotion etc. of Persons with Disabilities (Act No. 123 of 1960, revised in 2013) and Act on the Elimination of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities (Act No. 65 of 2013).
(iii) The system of employment of faculty members with accompanying spouse has been implemented at Kyushu University from July 2017.
(iv) Kyushu University prohibits the smoking on the premises to avoid exposure of environmental tobacco smoke.
(v) Personal information included in the submitted documents will not be used for purposes other than screening.

Work Location(s)

Number of offers available

1

Company/Institute

Kyushu University

Country

Japan

City

Fukuoka

Geofield

Where to apply

Website

https://jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJorDetail?fn=0&ln=1&id=D124010513&ln_jor=1

STATUS: EXPIRED