Science jobs from Kyushu University; staffs of Asian Conservation Ecology Kyushu University – with its 16,000 students and over 4,800 employees – is one of the ten largest providers of science education in Japan and offers a broad and attractive range of courses and programs in various fields of basic and applied science. Kyushu University conducts cutting-edge research within several areas, including ecology and evolution. Kyushu University is moving to a new campus that is surrounded by hills and streams and is neighbored by seashores and mudflats. Kyushu University is promoting a biodiversity conservation project in this area by using groundbreaking technologies such as forest transplantation and this project is regarded as one of the best conservation practices in the world. To further develop this conservation project and also to contribute to conservation of Asian biodiversity, Kyushu University is going to establish a new center of research and graduate education; Center for Asian Conservation Ecology in collaboration with the University of Tokyo. This organizational challenge is supported by the Global Center of Excellence Program of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, Japan. To establish the Global Center of Excellence for Asian conservation ecology, Kyushu University has decided to further strengthen its staff of younger researchers, and therefore searches some assistant professors and postdoctoral fellows for immediate employment. Kyushu University will promote research projects in three core sites, the area neighboring to the new campus in Japan, Lake Taifu in the vicinity of Shang-hai City in China, and more than 200 forest plots in Cambodia, and some other satellite sites in various Asian countries. The stuffs are expected to participate in at least one of these projects. Key directions for the position include phylogenetic diversity and extinction risk of tropical forest trees in Asia, biodiversity change observation in Asia with both satellite images and ground truth, comparative and analytical eco-hydrology of tropical forests in Asia, and coupling dynamics of ecosystem and human system. The position may have an empirical or theoretical direction or a combination of both. Further detail of the Global COE program for Asian conservation ecology is described in the webpage; http://sites.google.com/site/asianconservationecologyweb/Home. The position is for 4.5 years of research; until March 2014. An assistant professor should pursue research but also supervise graduate students as well as post-docs who are participated in the projects carried out in three core sites. In addition to research and graduate education in the core sites, he/she is expected to organize his/her own project. He/she is also expected to attract research grants from external sources of funding and to develop collaboration with scientists at Kyushu University, the University of Tokyo and other universities. The position is open for an outstanding scientist with a strong research track record. Ability to collaborate with researchers of the different research groups (http://sites.google.com/site/asianconservationecologyweb/Home/member) is a major asset. For further information about the position, please contact Professor Tetsukazu Yahara; email, tet.yahara@gmail.com. The application Applicants should submit, electronically: |