Professor in Virology and Gene Technology

il y a 4 jours


Gent, Belgique Universiteit Gent Temps plein

**Discipline**:Virology and Gene Technology**:

- **10% Assistant professor / Associate professor**:

- **Reference number**:202412/WE/ZAP/007**

**ABOUT GHENT UNIVERSITY**

Ghent University is one of the most important education and research institutions in the Low Countries. On a daily basis, 15,000 staff members and 50,000 students implement its motto "Dare to Think". Ghent University's mission statement is characterised by qualitative education, internationally renowned research and a pluralistic social responsibility.

**ASSIGNMENT**

**Academic education**
- You lecture various course units in the discipline of Virology and Gene Technology

**Academic research**
- You conduct research in the discipline of Antiviral vaccines and biologics primarily directed against respiratory viruses such as SARS and MERS coronaviruses, influenza viruses and paramyxoviruses. The focus is on the development of vaccines and biologics with broad protective potential against these viruses. These vaccines are based on recombinant proteins or messenger RNAs while the antiviral biologics preferentially are antibodies, antibody-derived molecules (such as nanobodies), and monobodies.

**Academic services**
- You take part in the internal and external service provision of the department of Biochemistry and Microbiology

**PROFILE**

**Experience**
- You have already conducted eminent academic research in the given discipline, which is clearly reflected in publications in high-quality academic journals and peer-reviewed books;
- You are capable of initiating, supervising and acquiring the necessary funding for academic research;
- You are didactically skilled to teach university students to develop academic competences;
- Recommended are:

- International mobility, among other things thanks to research stays at institutions external to the one where you acquired your highest academic degree;
- Positively evaluated experience in provided or organised academic lecturing;
- Professionalisation of education.
- Experience with initiation of and participation in research collaborations with industrial partners.
- You have experience with daily supervision of lab technicians, PhD students, and postdocs;
- You have experience with the isolation and functional characterization of nanobodies directed against viral class I fusion proteins
- You have experience with work in a Biosafety Level 3 laboratory.
- You must master the language of instruction in which you will teach a course at CEFR- level C1.You can demonstrate this by means of a language certificate or a diploma obtained from an institution in which that language is the language of instruction. In addition, Article II.270, -1 of the Codex of Higher Education requires that: (i) you must master the Dutch language at least at CEFR-level A2 within two years after the start of the appointment. (ii) you must be able to master the Dutch language at least at CEFR-level of B2 within five years after the start of the appointment. More info: Language requirements at Ghent University for professorial staff — Ghent University (ugent.be)

**Skills / Attitude**
- You are quality-oriented;
- You take initiative;
- You are communicative;
- You have a talent for presenting research results enthusiastically at national and international conferences.

**Admission requirements**
- You hold a thesis-based doctorate or a diploma or certificate that is recognised as equivalent (article V.20 Codex Higher Education).
- Upon evaluation of a foreign (non-EU) diploma, a certificate of equivalence may still have to be requested at NARIC. If this is the case, we advise you to initiate this recognition procedure as soon as possible. You are required to have the recognition no later than on the date of your appointment.
- You have at least two years of postdoctoral experience on 1 February 2025. This term of two years is determined by the date written on the above-mentioned required diploma.

**APPOINTMENT INFORMATION**
- We offer you an appointment with renewable duration for a maximum of 3 years.

Pay attention: A part-time assignment of a certain degree of the professorial staff cannot be combined with a part-time assignment of a different degree of the professorial staff within the same institution.

The recruitment is from 1 February 2025.

**OUR OFFER**

Ghent University is committed to properly welcoming new professorial staff members and offering them appropriate guidance. The basic teacher training and courses of 'Dutch' and 'English' for foreign-speaking lecturers are only a few examples of our wide range of training and education opportunities. Furthermore, each Ghent University staff member can count on a number of benefits such as a bike allowance, reimbursement of public transport commuting costs, daycare, a wide range of sports facilities and EcoCheques. A complete overview of all our employee benefits (in Dutch).

Ghent University also invests in welcoming international professorial staff. It offe



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