Position
description:
We are advertising for the position of research
assistant for a period of at least 6 months in Japan (from January-February
2021 to July-August 2021). The research assistant’s duties will be to help a
postdoctoral fellow in her behavioural data collection and social experiments
with Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata). The project aims to
understand social learning dynamics in Japanese macaques, which are highly
social animals. Several groups of captive Japanese macaques will be studied at the
Kyoto University Primate Research Institute (KUPRI), Inuyama, Japan.
Qualifications:
The applicant should have completed at least an undergraduate
degree in biology, ethology, neuroscience, or a related field, be motivated and
serious, be proficient in English and able to work within a team and on her/his
own.
Support provided
to the research assistant:
A room can be provided at KUPRI’s on-site dormitory
with a small stipend for other living expenses each month. Logistics, including
help with immigration procedures, will be provided by the host through its
short-term internship program: https://www.pri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/sections/internship/index.html
Term of
appointment: from January-February 2021
to July-August 2021 (not later)
Application
deadline: 01/07/2020
Comments:
This project is part of the
postdoctoral project of Dr. Charlotte Canteloup at the Kyoto University Primate
Research Institute (KUPRI), Inuyama, Japan, and will be done in collaboration
with Dr. Andrew MacIntosh, Associate Professor at KUPRI and Dr. Julie Duboscq,
researcher at the CNRS-MNHN, Paris, France.
KUPRI website: http://www.pri.kyoto-u.ac.jp
CICASP website: http://www.cicasp.pri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/about-cicasp
Applications consisting of a
motivation letter (1 page, file named: your name-motivation letter) and
curriculum vitae (up to 2 pages, file named: your name-CV) and the name and
complete contact information of one reference should be sent electronically to
the three contacts involved:
Contact information:
Dr. Charlotte Canteloup
Dr. Andrew MacIntosh
Dr. Julie Duboscq
Given the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic, we cannot account for any
unforeseen challenges such as continued or renewed travel restrictions, which
may arise before or even during the assistant's time with us. We will keep the
successful applicant updated but we must ask for patience and flexibility, and
the successful applicant must understand that this assistantship may need to be
cancelled at some point due to this situation.