Associate Professor / Assistant Professor
- Employer
- Hong Kong Baptist University
- Location
- Hong Kong
- Salary
- Competitive Salary
- Date posted
- Mar 16, 2021
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- Position Type
- Faculty Positions, Science, Technology & Mathematics, Biology & Life Sciences
- Employment Level
- Tenured/Tenured Track
- Employment Type
- Full Time
Hong Kong Baptist University
FACULTY OF SCIENCE
Department of Biology
The Department offers two BSc (Hons) programmes in Applied Biology,
and in Bioresource and Agricultural Science; and MPhil and PhD
degrees in Biological Science, Environmental Science and
Agricultural Science. Strong emphasis is placed on both quality
education and scholarly research.
Associate Professor / Assistant Professor
(PR0378/19-20)
The Department has commenced its new UGC funded BSc (Hons)
programme in Bioresource and Agricultural Science and is recruiting
tenure-track faculty members in the following areas:
Soil Science / Crop Protection / Crop Production /
Horticulture (Two Vacancies)
Applicants should have a PhD degree in agriculture, horticulture,
forestry, plant breeding agronomy or related fields, with
postdoctoral training and a track record of outstanding research
publications and externally-funded research projects. Candidates
who use cutting-edge approaches to address research in plant
disease control, soil fertility, molecular soil biology,
bioconversion, soil microbial ecology, bio-products, microbial
fertilizers, molecular plant pathology, plant genomics, crop
genetic and breeding, and probiotics-soil-plant relationship for
crop improvement are highly desirable. Applicants with experience
in agricultural crop production, field experimental station
operation and farmers extension programme will be an
advantage.
Candidates should be independent, energetic, and ambitious
scientists; have demonstrated experience in high impact research
and an excellent track record in publication; and committed to
excellence in both teaching and extension education.
Colleagues recruited will have access to over HK$1M of seed money
and appropriate research facilities/support, as well as a generous
array of competitive research funding from internal and external
sources.
The openings are on tenure-track with initial appointment on
three-year fixed-term contract. Re-appointments thereafter will be
subject to mutual agreement. Tenured appointments are expected to
be attained within six years.
Rank and salary will be commensurate with qualifications and
experience.
Application Procedure:
Applicants are invited to submit their applications at the HKBU
e-Recruitment System (jobs.hkbu.edu.hk) with samples of
publications, preferably three best ones out of their most recent
publications/works. They should also request two referees to send
in confidential letters of reference, with PR number (stated above)
quoted on the letters, to the Human Resources Office (Email:
recruit@hkbu.edu.hk) direct. Those who are not invited for
interview four months after the submission date may consider their
applications unsuccessful. All application materials including
publication samples, scholarly/creative works will be disposed of
after completion of the recruitment exercise. Details of the
University’s Personal Information Collection Statement can be found
at http://hro.hkbu.edu.hk/pics.
The University reserves the right not to make appointments for the
posts advertised, and the appointments will be made according to
the terms and conditions applicable at the time of offers.
Closing date: 17 April 2021 (or until the positions are
filled)
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