A new open-rank faculty position (Professor of Biology) is available at the School of Advanced Studies at the University of Tyumen (Siberia, Russia).
The School of Advanced Studies (SAS) https://sas.utmn.ru/en/, a new and rapidly growing institution at the University of Tyumen, is recruiting professors (open rank) in biology (including evolutionary biology) and neuroscience. SAS operates in English, so no knowledge of Russian is required and currently employs 20 professors from 7 countries.
SAS's distinctive feature is the organization of research around multidisciplinary projects. The teams will be formed and projects outlined at the project design session in March 2019 (see info on the previous such session here: https://sas.utmn.ru/en/project-design-session-2018-en/).
We will hire the most promising teams to realize their research projects at SAS while contributing to SAS educational process. The incoming professors may also receive a joint appointment with X-Bio: Institute for Environmental and Ecological Biology at the University of Tyumen https://www.utmn.ru/en/x-bio/institute/, which will be extending its scope to become an Institute of Life Sciences in the coming years. The direction of the development of both SAS and X-Bio’s research agenda will to an important extent reflect research interests of their new faculty. Both institutions are central to the University of Tyumen strategy supported by the Russian Academic Excellence projecthttps://5top100.ru/en/.
Successful candidates will be asked to teach at SAS liberal arts and sciences undergraduate program as well as, in case of a joint appointment, at X-Bio international MA programs. Successful candidates will receive European-level salaries, health insurance, and research travel funds, as well as access to available lab equipment. Receiving an internal grant to purchase equipment the university does not have will also be an option. Some information on Tyumen is available here: https://sas.utmn.ru/en/siberia-light/.
Please send a CV, three letters of reference, and a cover letter describing your academic itinerary and research plans in the framework of a hypothetical multidisciplinary team project via e-mail to sas@utmn.ru
before December 15, 2018.
