Project Assistant Professor(Wave information and communication or Data science)

1 Feb 2024
Job Information

Organisation/Company

Kitami Institute of Technology

Research Field

All
Other

Researcher Profile

Recognised Researcher (R2)
Established Researcher (R3)

Country

Japan

Application Deadline

30 Apr 2024 - 23:59 (UTC)

Type of Contract

Temporary

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
Kitami Institute of Technology (KIT) is the northernmost national university in Japan and is located in Kitami City, the core city of industry and culture in the Okhotsk area in eastern Hokkaido. It is surrounded by a beautiful natural environment with four national parks including Shiretoko, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
With its vision “to nurture people, develop technology, contribute to the community, and work toward a better future” under the philosophy of “Developing technology that harmonizes with nature”, KIT’s mission, in a time of rapid progress of science and technology becoming more and more advanced and complicated, is not only to provide basic skills and knowledge on specialized fields, but to train the ability to be able to deal flexibly with interdisciplinary fields and newly developed areas.

[Work content and job description]
This project assistant professor will be employed under the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research: the Promotion of Joint International Research (International Leading Research) project “Formation Processes of Heavy Elements in the Early Universe Elucidated by Superconducting Nanoelectronics, Large-Scale Numerical Simulations, and Data Science” (PI: Kotaro Kohno) (*). He/she will conduct fabrication and evaluation of submillimeter-wave receiver optics, development of observation systems, instrument operation, data analysis, etc. in cooperation with Dr. Tatsuya Takekoshi and his research group members. In addition, he/she will stay at domestic and overseas research institutes and observation sites where the above-mentioned instrument development and scientific research are being conducted for a long period of time to conduct research.
(*) https://sites.google.com/view/sublime-tifuun/

* Assigned department
Existing departments

[Work location]
* Address
090-8507 Hokkaido Kitami 165 Koen-Cho

[Number of hired]
Number of hired:1 person(s)
Hiring date:2024-10-01 00:00:00
Starting date:2024-10-01 00:00:00
Job content supplemental explanation:Starting date: As soon as possible before October 2, 2024

Requirements
Additional Information
Benefits

[Compensation]
Annual salary:4 million yen - 6 million yen
Wages description:Annual salary system
Working hours:08:30-17:15
Break time:12:00-13:00
Holidays :2 days off per week
Overtime and other explanations:null
Employment type:Contract employee
Employment type description:Project Assistant Professor
Contract period:Nontenured-Tenure-track
Contract period description:The contract period is five years. Within the contract period, he/she will be converted to a regular assistant professor position.
After the conversion to the regular assistant professor (5-year term), he/she will be examined whether to go on to the tenured position as an associate or assistant professor.
Probationary period:Probationary period present
Probationary period description:Trial period 6 month

[Various systems]

[Insurance]

[Measures for preventing passive smoking at the workplace]

[Supplementary explanation of compensation]
Discretionary labor system

Additional comments

(1) The institute selects faculty members in the spirit of the Basic Law on Gender Equality.
(2) The institute promotes the recruitment of foreign faculty members.
(3) For promoting gender equality and recruitment of foreign faculty members, the evaluation system of the institute takes into consideration the special circumstances of the life events of females, and a period until the foreign faculty members adapt to Japan society.
(4) Please download the CV and the list of publications templates from the following site:
https://www.kitami-it.ac.jp/about/saiyou/

Work Location(s)

Number of offers available

1

Company/Institute

Kitami Institute of Technology

Country

Japan

City

Hokkaido

Geofield

Where to apply

Website

https://jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJorDetail?fn=0&ln=1&id=D124010476&ln_jor=1

STATUS: EXPIRED