Département de biologie de l’Ecole Normale
Supérieure
46 rue d'Ulm, 75230 Paris Cedex 05
Call for applications:
Assistant Professor position in
Neurosciences
at the Ecole normale supérieure
The Ecole normale supérieure (ENS) is one of the leading
research and
teaching institutions in France and belongs to the Research
University “Paris
Sciences et Lettres”, a cluster of elite teaching and research
institutions in
Paris. The Biology Department of the ENS
(http://www.biologie.ens.fr/depbio/)
focuses on four main research areas, Developmental Biology,
Neuroscience,
Functional Genomics, and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and
has established
close links in research and teaching with the other ENS
departments (Physics,
Chemistry, Mathematics, Geosciences…) and PSL partner
institutions.
Tenure-track Assistant Professor in
Neurosciences
Basic qualifications
Candidates must have a Ph.D. or equivalent degree by time of
application.
French candidates
must be qualified in one of the following CNU sections: 65,
Biologie
cellulaire;
66, Physiologie; 69, Neurosciences.
Research
The Assistant Professor will join one of the teams at the
Institute of
Biology of ENS (IBENS)
in the Neuroscience or Developmental Biology sections. She or
he will
contribute to the
excellence of IBENS research with an outstanding track record
and research
project, in an
area that may range from molecular and genetic analysis of
receptor
function to network
dynamics and behavior, including neurodevelopment. The
Assistant Professor
will have
access to the animal houses and experimental, imaging,
genomics and
computational facilities
at the IBENS.
Teaching
The Assistant Professor will also have strong teaching and
mentoring
skills, or for those
without an extensive background in teaching, a commitment to
make this a
core component of
their professional portfolio. She or he will participate in
teaching
several neurosciences
courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels (the
courses offered by
the Biology
Department can be found here:
Appropriate expertise, in particular a solid
knowledge/experience of
electrophysiology, will
be appreciated. Teaching can be performed in English. In
addition, the
Assistant Professor
will be involved in ENS entrance examination tasks.
Contact: recrut-mc-neuro-2017@biologie.ens.fr
The formal application should be deposited on Galaxie
(https://galaxie.enseignementsuprecherche.
gouv.fr) between February 23 and March 30 2017