Professor/Associate Professor/Assistant Professor in Energy and Materials

1. Organization

Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School (Tsinghua SIGS) was launched in March 2019. As Tsinghua University’s sole campus located outside of Beijing. Tsinghua SIGS is a further expansion and integration of the Tsinghua Graduate School at Shenzhen (GSST) and the Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute (TBSI). 

Our mission is to reshape graduate education as well as research and development to better serve local, national, regional, and global sustainable development. Tsinghua SIGS will nurture the next generations of global leaders, tackle global challenges through international collaborations, and facilitate interdisciplinary research and industrial partnerships. 

2. Energy and Materials

The vision is to closely integrate the development trend of materials science with the national strategic requirements and industrial needs, make breakthrough the bottlenecks in material applications, and promote the technological innovations in structure-function integration, intelligence and flexibility, and green manufacturing of advanced materials, by taking advantages of the economic and innovative strengths of Shenzhen City. In order to meet the increasing demands in the important fields such as energy, information technology, healthcare, aerospace and deep sea applications, the faculty is devoted to developing cutting-edge material systems, including but not limited to materials design and predictions by theory and computation, flexible low-dimensional materials and devices, advanced energy materials, new functional materials for information technology, and biomedical materials. The mission is to build up a global research center in advanced functional materials, to form an international first-class discipline in China, to establish a world-class base that cultivates leading scientists and industrial talents with multidisciplinary vision. 

3. Position Rank

Professor/Associate Professor/Assistant Professor 

4. Annual salary

RMB 450,000 - 1,200,000 or above (pre-tax, depending on entry level and research areas). 

5. Research Start-up Package and Relocation Reimbursement

Tsinghua SIGS will provide research start-up package and relocation reimbursement for qualified faculty.

6. Student and Postdoctoral Recruitment

Tsinghua SIGS will finance 1-2 Ph.D. student and provide competitive salary package for post-doctoral researcher for faculty member. 

7. Qualifications

• A doctoral or equivalent degree in relevant academic area is required.
• Ideally at least two-year overseas study and work experience is required.
• Ideally at least two-year working experience at a world-leading university or research institute is required.
• Research experience across various fields and institutions and strong teaching performance are preferred.
• The candidate should be able to demonstrate strong communication, teaching and leadership skills in English as well as the ability to actively contribute to the rapidly growing research efforts at Tsinghua SIGS.
• A strong commitment to teaching and supervising postgraduate students is essential. Teaching responsibilities will include participation in and development of graduate courses and strong engagement with Tsinghua SIGS’s core curriculum. Supervision of PhD and MSc students and academic mentoring of trainees at all levels is also expected. 

8. Application

Please apply via https://talent.sigs.tsinghua.edu.cn/, or send the following application documents (in English) to talent@sz.tsinghua.edu.cn (subject line: Application for Faculty Position in XX area at Tsinghua SIGS).

1. Curriculum Vitae
2. Faculty Application Form ( https://talent.sigs.tsinghua.edu.cn/#/fileList )
3. Research/Teaching/Service Statement
4. PDF copies of 3 to 5 representative publications
5. Arrange 3-5 reference letters sent from renowned experts in related fields (the letters must be emailed to referee@sz.tsinghua.edu.cn directly) 

Screening of candidates will start immediately and will continue until the position(s) are filled. All documents will be treated confidentially. 

9. Contact:

HR Office

Email: talent@sz.tsinghua.edu.cn

Website:

https://www.sigs.tsinghua.edu.cn/

https://talent.sigs.tsinghua.edu.cn/