Announcement of Faculty Position for Female
Faculty of Frontier Engineering
Institute of Science and Engineering, Kanazawa University
1. Position:
Tenure Track (TT) Assistant Professor (Female)
2. Affiliation:
Faculty of Frontier Engineering, Institute of Science and Engineering, Kanazawa University
https://frontier.w3.kanazawa-u.ac.jp
3. Field of specification:
Research on chemical engineering, in particular, chemical reaction engineering and process system
engineering. Candidates should conduct advanced and pioneering research and education in the field. Upon
appointment, the successful candidate will join the Materials and Process Engineering research group and
cooperate with professors in the group.
4. Education:
1) School of Frontier Engineering, College of Science and Engineering, Kanazawa University
2) Division of Frontier Engineering, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa
University
5. Subject responsible for:
1) Undergraduate course: Lectures, exercises, and research guidance related to chemical engineering and
general education.
2) Graduate course: Subjects related to chemical engineering.
6. Employment status:
A full-time TT assistant professor (non-tenured, 5-year term)
Based on the results of an internal review by Kanazawa University concerning research and
educational achievements, the promotion to tenure associate professorship or the appointment of
tenure assistant professor is possible. If the extension of the TT period (up to 3 years) is approved
by the internal review, the review will be conducted in the final year of the extended period.
* Outline for the standard in making decision on the approval of academic tenure.
(1) Research achievement in the concerned field is outstanding in both domestic and
international research communities.
(2) Appropriately planned research is sufficiently achieved.
(3) Sufficient competitive research funding is obtained.
(4) Educational achievement for students (research guidance and lecture) is outstanding.
7. Treatment:
The expected financial research support is about 800,000 JPY at the first year.
8. Compensation:
Annual salary system is applied.
9. Qualification requirements:
1) The candidate should be a female researcher who holds a doctoral degree by the time when the
appointment begins. If the candidate is a PhD candidate, the schedule for obtaining the doctoral degree
should be claimed.
2) The candidate should have enthusiasm for education and research.
3) The candidate should take a progressive approach to collaboration with industries and universities.
4) It is desirable for the candidate to possess sufficient communication skills in both English and Japanese.
* Under Article 8 of the Equal Employment Opportunity Law (Special Provisions of Measures
Pertaining to Women Workers), in order to actively improve our considerably low percentage of women
