Call for applications: Assistant Professor in Neuroethology (5yr fixted term) at Sokendai Japan
The Department of Evolutionary Studies of Biosystems at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Sokendai), Japan invites applications for a five-year position in neuroethology at assistant professor level. The position is renewable for five more years. Applicants are required to have a PhD or equivalent (or a dissertation completed by the time of appointment). The appointment will start as soon as possible after our decision has been made. The place of appointment is the headquarter campus of Sokendai located in the scenic Shonan Village, Hayama, Kanagawa, near the Tokyo Metropolitan area.
The successful candidate is expected to pursue research on mechanisms of animal behavior with an evolutionary view point in collaboration with the members of the neuroethology group. The position will be partially involved in teaching and other departmental activities. The neuroethology group is currently studying on insect vision by combining wide variety of techniques including behavioral analysis, electrophysiology, anatomy, physiological optics, molecular biology and computer simulation. Because of the environmental treaty with local governments, we are not allowed to keep mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians, and to use radioisotopes on the Hayama campus.
For more information, plase see http://www.soken.ac.jp/en/up_pdf/20110630113415_f.pdf.
Please direct informal enquiries to Prof Kentaro Arikawa (arikawa@soken.ac.jp).