Assistant Professor in Neuroscience - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research?

The Department of Physiology and Pharmacology is one of the larger departments within Karolinska Institutet with 400 employees, 30 research groups, and 90 doctoral students. The main research and teaching areas include Physiology, Pharmacology, Anesthesiology, and Intensive care. Researchers connected to the department publish regularly in international high-impact science journals, a result of a collaborative environment and state-of-the-art equipment.
The department is responsible for teaching in several freestanding courses and study programs in medicine, physiotherapy, dentistry, optometry, biomedicine, speech -and language pathology.
As an employee at the department of Physiology and Pharmacology you will be part of a dynamic environment that promotes key innovations.

The position is placed in the research laboratory of Assistant Professor Carl Sellgren. The research group focuses on cellular reprograming and is interested in the interplay between neurons and glia cells for the development and maintenance of appropriate brain circuits, and how aberrations can lead to psychiatric disorders. The research group is also interested in education and teaching. The focus on the employment will be education and research. 

Your mission

The position encompasses both research within the research group and teaching at the department. In research, the holder of the position is expected to i) use human induced pluripotent stem cell models to investigate the mechanisms driving neurodevelopmental disorders, ii) supervise undergraduate and graduate students and organize work in the laboratory, iii) actively apply for research funding. The successful applicant will be expected to teach pharmacology and physiology to students attending freestanding courses and study programs at the department both in Swedish and English. The teaching will correspond to approximately 50% of the full-time position.

The employment as Assistant Professor is time limited for 6 years with the right to apply for promotion to Senior Lecturer.

Eligibility requirements

Those eligible for employment as an Assistant Professor are individuals who have been awarded a PhD or attained equivalent research competence. Preference should be given to those who were awarded a PhD or attained equivalent research competence no more than five years prior to the expiry of the application period for the position as assistant professor.

Those who have been awarded a PhD or attained equivalent research competence earlier may however be considered if special grounds exist. 

Special grounds refer to:

• parental leave,
• positions of trust in trade union organizations
• mandatory service in the total defense forces
• long-term illness
• general medical internship (maximum 24 months)
• specialist medical residency for clinically active professionals (maximum 24 months).

Ground, dates and extent must be clearly specified in the application and verified with relevant documentation.

We see that the candidate have research experience in using patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells to model neuropsychiatric disorder. Since teaching is a part of the position, we see that the candidate also have teaching experience in pharmacology.
The holder is expected to be able to teach in Swedish and English.

Bases of assessment

For Assistant Professor with focus on education and research:

Pedagogical and scientific expertise will be most important when assessing applicants.

What do we offer?

A creative, international and inspiring environment with wide-ranging expertise and interests. Karolinska Institutet is one of the world's leading medical universities. Here, we conduct successful medical research and hold the largest range of medical education in Sweden. At KI, you get to meet researchers working with a wide range of specialisms and methods, giving you ample opportunity to exchange knowledge and experience with the various scientific fields within medicine and health. It is the crossover collaborations, which have pushed KI to where it is today, at the forefront of global research. Several of the people you meet in healthcare are educated at KI. A close relationship with the health care providers is important for creating groundbreaking top quality education and research. Karolinska Institutet is also a state university, which entitles you to several good benefits through our collective agreement. 

Location: Solna
https://ki.se/en/fyfa/department-of-physiology-and-pharmacology

Application

We prefer that Your application is written in English, but You can also apply in Swedish. An application must contain the following documents: Resumé, qualifications and description of planned research, presented in accordance with Karolinska Institutet’s qualifications portfolio.

Welcome to apply at the latest 2022-12-18.

The application is to be submitted through the Varbi recruitment system

Particular assessment for promotion to Senior Lecturer

An Assistant Professor employed in accordance with the Higher Education Ordinance Chapter 4 Section 12a shall be promoted to Senior Lecturer if he or she is eligible for an employment as Senior Lecturer in accordance with the Instructions regarding the Appointment Procedure for Teachers at Karolinska Institutet and is assessed to be suitable for such employment in accordance with the assessment criteria that KI has decided should be applied when being promoted to Senior Lecturer. The assessment criteria stated in the Instructions regarding the Appointment Procedure for Teachers at Karolinska Institutet that was valid at the time of appointment as Assistant Professor will be applied when applying for promotion to Senior Lecturer. Current assessment criteria is found here. Such promotion results in a permanent position as Senior Lecturer.

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