Open Positions
Until 20 June 2022: Junior Professor Chair in BioNLP / Bioinformatics
Université Paris-Saclay is opening a new type of "tenure track" position started this year in France: a special Associate Professor position, called "Chaire Professeur Junior", with a fast track to tenured, Full Professor within about 5 years. This new type of Associate Professor position has a reduced teaching load of 64 hours per year, compared to the standard 192 hours of usual positions. Additionally, this Junior Professor will automatically receive a one-shot 350 k€ starting grant from the National Research Agency and CNRS (typically to hire a post-doc or doctoral student, for travel expenses, etc.).
The general objective of the project of which this position is part is to build bridges between two areas: natural language processing of biomedical texts and integration of biological data. The research environment is that of the natural language processing team (ILES) of the LISN Language Sciences and Technologies department and/or the Bioinformatics team (BioInfo) of the LISN Data Science department.
About language in a French environment: interaction in the research team can be performed in English. Teaching is in French or in English depending on the classes. If needed, the successful candidate can teach entirely in English initially, but is expected to be able to teach in French too after a couple of years.
Université Paris-Saclay is among the top 20 universities in the Shanghai Jiao Tong ranking, and the first in continental Europe. The LISN laboratory is a multidisciplinary research laboratory in Orsay, France. It is composed of five departments and 17 teams. The LISN Language Sciences and Technologies department counts about 75 members including faculty, PhD students, and post-docs.
Application instructions
Applying to positions in French Universities takes time: do not wait until the last days, do act now!
- It is vital for interested candidates to contact the following people before applying:
- Research: Pierre Zweigenbaum
(BioNLP) and Sarah Cohen-Boulakia (Bioinformatics) - Teaching: Dominique Quadri, Head of the Computer Science Department
- You will discuss with them to obtain more detailed information on the job and application and use that information to frame your application.
- Research: Pierre Zweigenbaum
- Official job description:
- Université Paris-Saclay:
- page on Junior Professor chairs, see TAL-BIOInfo
- specific job description---this is a complete version of the job description
- Ministry of Higher Education and Research:
- page on Junior Professor chairs, see Job 197 in the list of published positions which leads to the
- specific job description---same as above, but incomplete
- Université Paris-Saclay:
- Application is through the Galaxie server (FIDIS)
- This takes time. You first need to create an account as a candidate, then create a new application and enter information on-line.
- You need to upload various documents (ID, diplomas, etc.).
- One of the documents is an application file for which a handy template is available in French; the template is also found at Université Paris-Saclay:
- You then need to upload the PDF of the filled application file as the first document among the 10 document upload slots.
- Deadline for applications: 20 June 2022, 4:00pm (Paris time)
- Position start: 1 Nov 2022
