Professor in Preclinical Behavioral Research with a

il y a 2 semaines


Gent, Belgique Universiteit Gent Temps plein

**Discipline**:Preclinical Behavioral Research with a Focus on Pain Research**:

- **10% Assistant professor**:

- **Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences**:

- **Reference number**:202311/GE/ZAP/005**

**ABOUT GHENT UNIVERSITY**

Ghent University is one of the most important education and research institutions in the Low Countries. On a daily basis, over 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**

This position is situated in the department of Biomolecular Medicine of the faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. The appointment includes a teaching, research and service assignment.
The position will be taken up in the Department of Biomolecular Medicine, which comprises several leading research groups, each with their own approaches and focus. Multidisciplinary research is key within this Department, which offers a unique environment of beyond state-of-the art technological platforms (multi-omics, genomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics, proteomics, single cell omics, functional genomics, computational biology, cellular and animal model systems, therapy development) for cutting edge biomedical research in close connection with an international embedded clinical trial center.

**Academic education**

**Academic research**
You conduct research in the discipline of (aberrant) mechanisms involved in the development and maintenance of pain. More specifically, in collaboration with established research groups both within and ouside the Department, you will develop research on pain-related behavior in several animal model systems. This also includes generating and analyzing -omics datasets. You investigate the underlying pathological mechanisms to identify therapeutic targets with the ultimate goal to develop better pain-relieving therapies.

**Academic services**
You take part in the internal and external service provision of the department of Biomolecular Medicine, amongst others by translating the results of your research to the broader public.
During your career, you are willing to include roles and management positions that are relevant to the department and/or faculty.

**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;
- You display leadership (e.g. by the guidance and coaching of master
- and PhD students);
- 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.
- 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 have good didactic skills;
- You are a team player;
- You have good organisational, interpersonal and communication skills;
- You develop leadership in your area of expertise.

**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 September 2024. 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 6 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 institut



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