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From : Dr. Nobuo SHIGEHARA
Director, Primate Research Institute,
Kyoto University
Job Vacancy
Announcement
| Institution: |
Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University |
| Research Program: |
Biodiversity and Conservation Biology |
| Job Title: |
Research Associate (term: 2 years) |
| Opening Date: |
January 5, 2005 |
| Closing Date: |
March 4, 2005 |
| Formal Hiring Date: |
around June 2005 |
| Salary Range: |
subject to previous research career (non-
negotiable) |
1. Job description
Primate Research
Institute, Kyoto University (KUPRI) is seeking to appoint a suitable
candidate to the position of Research Associate to promote the activities
of the advertised research program which aims to study biodiversity and
conservation biology of non-human primates in south-east Asia. Without
contributing to the administration of the institute, the successful
candidate will be expected to conduct field research with particular
emphasis of communicative behavior (vocalizations) and the ecology of
gibbons and other primates of south-east Asia..
2. Application
procedure:
Candidates are requested to
submit the following set of documents in duplicate sets (copies
acceptable).
- CV with detailed account of academic activity and research grant
record.
- List of academic publications and reprints (one per set for each
article).
- List of non-academic/popular publications and reprints (one per set
for each article).
- Summary of research conducted (about 400 words).
- Summary of research plan to be conducted at KUPRI (about 400
words).
All documents must arrive
by Friday, March 4, 2005, and should be sent, preferably by registered
mail, to the following address:
Dr. Nobuo
SHIGEHARA,
Director
Primate Research Institute
Kyoto
University
41 Kanrin, Inuyama, Aichi 484-8506
JAPAN
Tel:
+81-568-63-0567
3. Selection procedure and
feedback to candidates
A committee will be set up
at KUPRI to evaluate all candidates, based on the documents submitted. The
complete list of candidates will then be passed on to a general assembly
of about 40 faculty members, all of whom will participate in a vote to
select one candidate for the post. No further information will be
available to candidates at any stage of the selection process. Each
candidate will be informed of the final decision pertaining to him/herself
only.
The interdisciplinary cooperative research program
釘iodiversity and Conservation Biology・is currently executed by Hirohisa
Hirai, Nobuo Masataka and 7 other KUPRI faculty members. Detailed
information is available at the following www site:
http://www.pri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/
For further information, please
contact Nobuo MASATAKA (e-mail: masataka@pri.kyoto-u.ac.jp, tel:
+81-568-63-0552,
fax: +81-568-63-0552).
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