Associate Professor (Tenure Track)

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Offer Description

Background of the recruitment and description of the project

Field of specification: Electronic information and mechanical engineering, focusing on robotics, measurement and control, and machine learning.
Candidates should conduct advanced and pioneering research and education in the field. Upon appointment, the successful candidate will join the Electronic Information and Mechanical Engineering research group and cooperate with professors in the group.
https://frontier.w3.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/

Work content and job description

Education:
1) School of Frontier Engineering, College of Science and Engineering, Kanazawa University
2) Division of Frontier Engineering, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University

Subject responsible for:
1) Undergraduate course: Lectures, exercises, and research guidance related to Electronic Information and Mechanical Engineering, and General Education.
2) Graduate course: Subjects related to Field of Specification.

* Assigned department
Existing departments

Work location

* Address
920-1192 Ishikawa Kakuma campus, Kanazawa University, Kakuma-match, Kanazawa

Number of hired

Number of hired: 1 person(s)
Starting date: 2027-04-01 00:00:00

Additional Information

Benefits

[Compensation]
Annual salary: 6 million yen - 9 million yen
Wages description: Annual salary system is applied.
Working hours: 08:30-17:00
Break time: 12:00-12:45
Holidays: Saturdays, Sundays, National holidays, New Year's holidays
Overtime and other explanations: A professional discretionary work system is applied. (Deemed working hours: 7.75 hours/day)
Employment type: Regular employee
Employment type description: A full-time tenure track associate professor (non-tenured, 5-year term)
Contract period: Nontenured-Tenure-track
Contract period description: 5-year term

Based on the results of an internal review by Kanazawa University concerning research and educational achievements, the promotion to tenure professorship or the appointment of tenure associate professor is possible. If the extension of the tenure track period (up to 3 years) is approved by the internal review, the review will be conducted in the final year of the extended period.

* Outline for the standard in making decision on the approval of academic tenure.
(1) Research achievement in the concerned field is outstanding in both domestic and international research communities.
(2) Appropriately planned research is sufficiently achieved.
(3) Sufficient competitive research funding is obtained.
(4) Educational achievement for students (research guidance and lecture) is outstanding.

Probationary period: Probationary period absent

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[Insurance]

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[Supplementary explanation of compensation]
The expected financial support is approximately 800,000 JPY in the first year.

Additional comments

1) The website below gives information about employment regulation.
https://www.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/university/administration/regulation/rules (in Japanese)
2) Kanazawa University also promotes the courses delivered in English under the internationalization policy.
https://www.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/sgu/en/kusgu/project.html
3) Kanazawa University promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) based on the Basic Act for a Gender-Equal Society and the "Kanazawa University Diversity Promotion Principles." We welcome applications from female researchers and international researchers for our open faculty positions. For details, https://ipdi.w3.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/en/

Work Location(s)

• Number of offers available: 1
• Company/Institute: Kanazawa University
• Country: Japan
• City: Ishikawa