Assistant Professor (full-time, tenure-track) in History of Science and Technology, Tsinghua University
Looking for an Assistant Professor (full-time,
tenure-track) in History of Science and Technology
The Institute of Science, Technology and Society,
Tsinghua University in China is looking for an Assistant Professor (full-time,
tenure-track) in History of Science and Technology
The Institute of Science, Technology and Society,
Tsinghua University is one of the pioneers in China who have conducted STS
related research and teaching science 1985, and probably one of the biggest STS
groups all over the world, which have about 20 full-time faculties, 20
post-doctoral research fellows, as well as 80 graduate and international
joint-training students.
Tsinghua University is a top 2 university in China. At
present, Tsinghua has 14 schools and 56 departments with faculties in science,
engineering, humanities, law, medicine, history, philosophy, economics,
management, education and art. The University has now over 25,900 students,
including 13,100 undergraduates and 12,800 graduate students.
As one of China’s most renowned universities, Tsinghua
has become an important institution for fostering talent and scientific
research.
Offer
You are appointed as assistant professor (full-time). A
Tenure Track contract enables you to direct your own career based on fixed
performance agreements, in relation to which promotion from assistant professor
to associate professor and subsequently to full professor is possible. A
definitive assessment will take place no later than 6 years
(2 employment terms) after commencement of the
employment, following which employment for an indefinite period and promotion
to associate professor may be agreed upon.
Salary is paid by the university according to a certain
criteria. Other benefits include, you will get the opportunity to rent the
university apartment at an extremely reasonable price, and you can also have
the priority to send your kids to the university’s kinder garden, primary and
middle school.
Qualifications
As our qualified candidate, you should hold a Ph.D. in
philosophy of Science and Technology or STS in WORLD TOP UNIVERSITIES. A fluent
language capability in both Chinese and English is also needed. You also have
experience in teaching at the university level, preferably including students
in science & engineering, social science, or other non-STS fields, and
preferably including professional and/or applied STS topics. You should as well
have an excellent list of publications in peer-refereed journals, and have relevant
international experience.
Information and application
For more information, please contact Dr. Chadwick WANG,
assistant professor in our institute (email: chadwick@tsinghua.edu.cn; phone:
+86-10-62794966-253).
Your application should reach us by September 28th, 2012,
and should
include a CV, a letter of application (including a
summary of your
teaching evaluations), a summary and table of contents of
your
dissertation (or your full dissertation), no more than 5
representative
papers published in peer-refereed journals or at least
one writing
sample if you don’t have any (both Chinese and English
papers are
acceptable), and contact information for 3 or more
references.