About IAS, Shenzhen University

The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) of Shenzhen University is an institution established in 2014, consisting of both undergraduate and postgraduate programs, and focusing on interdisciplinary teaching and research. The institute is a special academic zone inside the university but its operation and management conform to the rules and procedures implemented in most institutions across the globe, independent of the current system in Shenzhen University. The Institution is now searching for senior and junior principal investigators worldwide until all the posted vacancies are occupied.

1. Vacancies

6-10 tenured or tenure-tracked full professors

8-14 tenure-tracked associate professors

20-35 tenure-tracked assistant professors

2. Areas (focusing on interdisciplinary education and research)

Applied Mathematics: Risk Management, Statistics, Computational Mathematics & Financial Mathematics;

Physics: Material Physics, Soft-Matter Physics & Physical Biology;

Chemistry: Material Chemistry, Chemical Biology & Micromolecular Chemistry;

Biology: Bio-Medicine, food science, Bio-informatics, etc.

Marine biology: Marine ecology, Physical oceanography, Chemical oceanography, Marine environmental science.

3. Salaries/Benefits

a) Salary of tenure-tracked assistant professors will start from US$60,000 per year, depending on individual qualifications. Please contact us for further information.

b) Assist the PIs to apply for 2—5 million RMB start-up funds from Shenzhen government, depending on the applicants’ requirements and qualifications in accordance with the University’s new policies of bringing in top talents.

c) All the tenured or tenure-tracked faculty members will be and must be independent researchers. Research collaboration among members is encouraged. The institute will be administrated by all the academic members by international standards.

d) The academic members at the Institute will be assessed by a peer review system with an emphasis on intellectual contributions rather than solely by publications.

4. Application materials (All in English)

a) A research proposal for the next 5—10 years, including specific research questions, their significance, your novel approaches and ideas, the starting-up requirements and your abilities to solve these questions;

b) Three recommendation letters;

c) A maximum of five previous publications and/or patents with a description of your academic contributions respectively;

d) CV with degree certifications attached.

Do you like to become an independent principal investigator with a sufficient start-up research fund and work in a new institute that attaches greater importance to intellectual contributions than publications in China? If yes, please submit the above application documents, and arrange your referees to email their recommendation letters directly to the liaison as below.

5. Contact

Sha ZOU

Tel: +86-755-26492572, Email: sachow@szu.edu.cn

Address: Dean’s Office of the Institute for Advanced Study, Rm. 343, Administration Building, Shenzhen University, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China 518060

Notes:

1. Please title your email as “Your Name + SZU-IAS-PI + Your Research Areas”;

2. Please provide us with all the required materials as stated above. Any incomplete applications may not be considered in the searching process. Thanks!

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• Functional nanomaterials and devices;
• Organic optoelectronic materials and devices;
• Optical science and engineering;
• Surface and interface science;
• Nanobiotechnology and nanomedicine;
• Novel characterization techniques and instrumentations;
• Materials simulation and design, multiscale modeling and high-performance computing;
• Electron microscopy techniques and applications.

Qualifications: 

• A PhD or equivalent degree in Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering, Biology, Bioengineering, or other relevant disciplines;
• With outstanding science or engineering background and exceptional research accomplishment equivalent to or higher than the level that needed to compete for the “1000 Young Talent” program;
• Ability to conduct innovative and collaborative research with a unique research focus;
• Capable of teaching in English.

Employment benefits:

• Guaranteed highly competitive pay and benefit package (on a case-by-case basis) including basic salary, housing allowance, and additional bonuses based on scientific/teaching achievements. For details, please kindly call +86-512-65880820 or email us at funsom@suda.edu.cn;
• Handsome startup laboratory and equipment/operation fund as per research needs;
• Free access to various kinds of research instruments in FUNSOM for the first three years;
• Additional quota of graduate students in the first three years;
• No teaching obligation for the first two years;
• Two assistant positions for each principal investigator.

FUNSOM was founded at Soochow University in 2008, and is being led by the founding director Prof. Shuit-Tong Lee, an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. At present there are 44 principal investigators conducting interdisciplinary and innovative research in different areas of nano-science and technology, including nano-optoelectronics, nano-energy, nanobiotechnology, and nanoscale interface sciences. To date FUNSOM has received over 820M RMB ($126M) in competitive National funding from NSFC, 863, 973, and other National agencies. Based on FUNSOM, the College of Nano Science and Technology (CNST), which is focusing on undergraduate teaching, is founded in 2010. CNST is the first college to provide undergraduate education of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in mainland China. CNST was approved as one of 17 “Pilot Colleges” by the Ministry of Education in October 2011, received the Outstanding Teaching Award in Jiangsu Province in 2017, and received the 2nd prize of National Higher Education Teaching Achievement in 2018. Based on FUNSOM and CNST, Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Science and Technology (NANO-CIC) was established and was chosen as one of the 14 “2011 Collaborative Innovation Center” by the Ministry of Education in April 2013. Base for Introducing of Talents of Discipline to Universities – Functional Optical Nanomaterials was selected in the National “111 Project”. Information of FUNSOM and CNST are available on the websites at http://funsom.suda.edu.cn/funsomen/  and http://nano.suda.edu.cn/nano_en/ .

Applicants should send a PDF containing a letter of application, curriculum vitae, as well as a research plan, a proposed budget, and a teaching statement to funsom@suda.edu.cn  (Tel: +86-512-65880820, Fax: +86-512-65880820). Applicants should also arrange for three letters of recommendation to be sent to the above email address. Review of applicants will begin immediately upon receipt of complete application materials.

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