Associate Professor / Assistant Professor - Department of Chemistry

FACULTY OF SCIENCE

Department of Chemistry

The Department is committed to providing quality education and research. It now recruits a tenure-track faculty member in the following area:

Associate Professor / Assistant Professor (PR0277/19-20) 

The appointee will teach at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels and conduct independent programmes of research. Applicants should have a PhD degree in Chemistry plus post-doctoral experience in Analytical Chemistry. Strong research background and solid publication record in bio-mass spectrometry are required. Experience in mass spectrometry-based omics and imaging is preferred.

The appointee will be jointly affiliated to the State-Key Laboratory of Environmental and Biological Analysis that has the best mass spectrometry facility in Hong Kong, including three new Orbitrap MS and one Bruker Rapiflex MALDI-Imaging, as well as cell and animal rooms.

The appointment will be offered on a tenure track. Initial appointment will be made on a fixed-term contract of up to three years. Re-appointment thereafter will be subject to mutual agreement.

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. Applicants should also request two referees to send in confidential letters of reference, with PR number (stated above) quoted on the letters, to the Personnel Office (Email: recruit@hkbu.edu.hk) direct. Those not invited for interview four months after the closing date may consider their applications unsuccessful. All application materials including publication samples and 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://pers.hkbu.edu.hk/pics.

The University reserves the right not to make an appointment for the posts advertised, and the appointment will be made according to the terms and conditions then applicable at the time of offer.

Closing date: 17 March 2020 (or until the position is filled)