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Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University (BNBU) now invites candidates for this position which is expected to be filled in Sep 2026: Assistant Professor or above in Emotional Intelligence (Ref: SGE260507) Job Description: Teaching Responsibilities: Deliver general education courses on emotional intelligence for undergraduate and postgraduate students using embodied/somatic practices to enhance emotion regulation, while collaborating with the teaching team and coordinating with the Whole Person Education Center's course arrangements. Course Development: Lead the development of three-credit elective courses that integrate emotional intelligence, embodied learning, and somatic practices, and promote their inclusion into related disciplines such as Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, and Sports and Health. Research Responsibilities: Conduct interdisciplinary academic research on emotional intelligence and somatic practices with fields like Psychology, Neuroscience, Sports Science, Active Health, and AI, and assist the Center in building an academic network and organizing seminars or workshops. Student Mentorship and Whole Person Education: Provide academic guidance and project supervision for students' somatic practice research, promote well-being and learning through physical practices and extracurricular community activities, participate in interdisciplinary course collaborations to embed emotional intelligence into the whole person education framework, and deliver public lectures or training sessions for faculty and students. Job Requirement： Possess a doctoral degree in Psychology, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Health Sciences, Sports Science, Somatic/Embodied Integration Studies, or a related field. Postdoctoral or university teaching experience is preferred. Fluent English teaching ability (language certification or overseas degree experience required). Expertise in Somatic/Embodied Practices Have systematically studied and continuously practiced at least one verifiable somatic/embodied practice method. Professional certificated is preferred. Be able to organically integrate somatic/embodied practices with emotional intelligence course content, rather than merely as background knowledge. Teaching Competence Evidence of effective teaching, such as student evaluations of teaching, teaching observation reports, or teaching awards. Research Competence Have a clear research direction in areas such as emotion regulation, mindfulness-based interventions, somatic/embodied practices, embodied cognition, affective neuroscience, or related fields. Possess the ability to independently apply for research funding. Be able to supervise students in conducting small-scale research projects and support student outcomes presentation or publication. Interdisciplinary and Collaborative Skills Be willing and able to engage in interdisciplinary collaboration with faculty in fields such as Psychology, Neuroscience, Sports Science, Education, Art Therapy, and related areas. Demonstrate strong team collaboration spirit and be able to participate in curriculum system development and teaching innovation activities at the Center for Whole Person Education. Administrative and Service Duties Be able to undertake necessary public service tasks, including course management, course evaluation, and student activity organization. Have experience delivering public lectures or somatic practice experiential activities for faculty and students on campus. Application Procedures Please complete the job application form and upload the requested documents online: https://hrapp.bnbu.edu.cn/recruit/job/vacancy/JobDetail/1250.   If you failed to submit your application online, please send your application by emailing to recruit@bnbu.edu.cn. Applications should include a curriculum vitae and a completed "Job Application Form" which can be downloaded from https://hro.bnbu.edu.cn/Job_Opportunities_/Application_Procedure.htm. Please indicate the position being applied for, including the field of expertise, level and reference number. The University reserves the right not to fill these positions, or to extend the search until suitable candidates are identified or to make an appointment by invitation. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse environment.

Job opportunity in a multidisciplinary research project at the Department of Architecture, Aalto ARTS (a postdoctoral researcher or an almost finished doctoral student) Aalto University is where science and art meet technology and business. We shape a sustainable future by making research breakthroughs in and across our disciplines, sparking the game changers of tomorrow and creating novel solutions to major global challenges. Our community is made up of 16 000 students and 5 200 employees, including 446 professors. Our campus is in Espoo, Greater Helsinki, Finland. Diversity is part of who we are, and we actively work to ensure our community’s diversity and inclusiveness. This is why we warmly encourage qualified candidates from all backgrounds to join our community. The Department of Architecture at Aalto University is an internationally renowned education and research unit (within app. top 2% in the world of architecture). With Finland’s esteemed architectural heritage, we search for new solutions to the challenges of sustainable development. To us, architecture is an art form that requires practical skills and individual artistic development, as well as knowledge on sustainability relevant to design and planning. We educate critical thinkers who accept their responsibility to research and design a socially, culturally, and ecologically sustainable built environment. The Department of Architecture offers degree programs in architecture, landscape architecture, and interior architecture. For more information, please see http://architecture.aalto.fi/en/. We are now looking for a postdoctoral researcher or an almost finished doctoral student. We are seeking a researcher with a doctoral degree (or almost that) in building or interior architecture to join an EU-funded research project concerning interior architecture and textiles at Aalto University’s Department of Architecture. In this position, you will have the opportunity to contribute to the transformation of the interior textile industry by leveraging design as a driver of sustainable competitiveness. This practice-led material innovation project addresses interior textiles, which amount to 30% of all textile production. By changing the colouration process early in production, the use of water and chemicals could be reduced by 50%. To implement this change though mayor barriers need to be overcome. We propose system-level changes across design, decision-making, business ecosystems, and policy in the interior textiles sector. The project will equip designers and industry decision-makers with a comprehensive set of guidelines for design, aesthetics, production, and business models. The work is part-time and requires working from Finland also when in remote mode: 40% workload (2 days per week) for the first 1,5 years (August 2026 – January 2028) and 10% workload (0,5 day per week) for the second 1,5 years (February 2028 – July 2029). The work should start on the 26th of August latest, if not agreed otherwise. The starting salary for an entry-level postdoc is approximately 4150€ per month (for 100% work). Your role and goals The role combines high-level analytical responsibility with collaborative engagement in design-led research processes, ensuring integration between academic rigor and practice-based innovation, analyzing and benchmarking built interior design examples that successfully incorporate sustainable textile practices synthetizing findings from textile manufacturing heritage research to interior design documenting the aesthetic dimensions of sustainable transitions, as well as applying life cycle assessment, cradle-to-cradle thinking, and material circularity indicators to the project participating to create an approach for esthetic acceptance, emotional durability, and aesthetics of imperfection shaping aesthetic paradigms and current values producing aesthetic and technical guidelines for interior designers enabling them to make informed and more sustainable fabric selections participating creating a design-business-marketing transformation framework  identifying and recommending industry standards and policies: contributing to integrated recommendations together with industry partners producing expert insight presentations to professional audiences disseminating the results and communicating the project especially with video-based knowledge resources through relevant platforms and publications throughout the interior textile industry participating to develop the concept for a spatial demonstration of the findings of the project …and supporting professors Katrin Greiling and Antti Ahlava in other parts of the project Your network and team Aalto's multidisciplinary team includes prof. Antti Ahlava and assistant prof. Katrin Greiling from the Department of Architecture. The leader of the whole project is prof. Maarit Salolainen from Aalto's Dept. of Design. Your supervisor would be Katrin Greiling. Other schools from Aalto include SCI (assist. prof. Lauri Saarinen), and BIZ (PoP Antti Vassinen). The partners from the textile industry cover all relevant parts of the interior textile value chain from fiber production and yarns to fabrics. Your experience and ambitions Qualified candidates for the postdoctoral position should hold a doctoral degree (or almost that) and have sufficient research experience and interest in fields and themes relevant to the position. Adequate skills in qualitative and/or artistic research methods are required, and ability for multidisciplinary research is considered to be highly advantageous. Excellent English language skills are required. You need to have a genuine interest in interior textiles. Selection process The evaluation will be based on the assessment of the candidate’s relevant past research and creative/artistic background and achievements, as well as their potential for contributions to the proposed research. Applications will be reviewed by a team of researcher-practitioners, and shortlisted candidates will be invited for an online interviews. What we offer Meaningful and inspiring environment. We are proud of our purpose to shape a sustainable future. We spark the game changers of tomorrow, and renew society with research-based knowledge, creativity and an entrepreneurial mindset. Culture that inspires and includes everyone. All our work is guided by the values of the university: responsibility, courage, and collaboration. It’s the people that create Aalto. We want to be an open community where equality and inclusion enable curiosity, innovation, collaboration, and wellbeing. Responsible and meaningful role with impact in our university’s and school’s success, and in the end, in the wellbeing and development of our society. We value work-life balance and well-being in all aspects of life. We work in a hybrid model, with the primary workplace located at the Otaniemi Campus in Espoo, Finland. Life on the revitalized campus is vibrant, featuring stunning architecture, tranquil nature, and a variety of cafes, restaurants, and services, all complemented by excellent public transportation connections. How to apply: Please upload your PDF application including your cv, motivation letter and a brief overview of your research projects, to our recruitment site. Please note: Aalto University’s employees should apply for the position via our internal HR system Workday (Internal Jobs) by using their existing Workday user account (not via the external webpage for open positions). If you are a student or visitor at Aalto University, please apply with your personal email address (not aalto.fi) via Aalto University open positions. The deadline for submitting your application is 21st of June 2026 at 23:59 (Eastern European time UTC +2) Applications will be reviewed by a team of researcher-practitioners, and shortlisted candidates will be invited for interviews. For more information about the role please contact Assistant Professor Katrin Greiling (Interior Architecture) +358 50 453 1453 / katrin.greiling@aalto.fi or Professor Antti Ahlava (Emergent Design Methodologies) +358 50 324 1179 / antti.ahlava@aalto.fi. For questions related to the application process, please contact HR Partner Enni Ailoranta, hr-arch@aalto.fi. Want to know more about us and your future colleagues? You can watch these videos: This is Aalto University! Aalto University – Towards a better world and Shaping a Sustainable Future. Read more about working at Aalto: https://www.aalto.fi/en/careers-at-aalto and check out our new virtual campus experience: https://virtualtour.aalto.fi About Finland Finland is a great place for living with or without family – it is a safe, politically stable and well-organized Nordic society. Finland is consistently ranked high in quality of life and was listed again as the happiest country in the world: World Happiness Report 2025 For more information about living in Finland: Aalto Careers for International Staff. More about Aalto University: Aalto.fi youtube.com/user/aaltouniversity linkedin.com/school/aalto-university/ www.facebook.com/aaltouniversity instagram.com/aaltouniversity To view information about Workday Accessibility, please click here. Please see more of our Open Positions here.

The University of Vienna is a community of almost 10,000 individuals, including approximately 7,700 academic staff members, who passionately pursue answers to the profound questions that shape our future. They represent individuals driven by curiosity and a relentless pursuit of excellence. With us, they find the space to try things out and unfold their potential. Are you inspired by their passion and determination? We are currently seeking a/an University assistant predoctoral 34 Faculty of Law Startdate: 01.07.2026 | Working hours: 30 | Collective bargaining agreement: §48 VwGr. B1 Grundstufe (praedoc) Limited until: 30.09.2028 Reference no.: 5724 Professor Lewisch's professorship is a unit of the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology with a research focus on white-collar criminal law, criminal procedural law, and its relationship to constitutional and European law. Its focus is interdisciplinary (including legal economics) and international. Your personal sphere of influence: As a prae-doc at this chair, you will receive comprehensive training in criminal law (and, if desired, in related areas of law), including practical legal practice. After initial training, you will work in the full range of criminal law and criminal procedural law, including international and interdisciplinary aspects, and will write your dissertation in this field. In addition, you will also undertake teaching duties as your career progresses. The duration of the contract upon employment is 2 years due to the retirement of Prof. Lewisch. Your future tasks: You actively participate in research, teaching & administration, which means: You participate in research projects and academic studies, as well as in the organization of conferences and symposia. We expect you to complete your dissertation agreement within 12-18 months. You will work on your dissertation and its completion and on possible other publications (articles, contributions). You will supervise students. You will independently teach courses within the scope of the collective agreement. You will assume administrative tasks in research and teaching. This is part of your personality: Completed degree in law Excellent academic performance, particularly in criminal law and criminal procedural law, demonstrated by successful examinations (submission of a transcript of records and grades is mandatory) Therefore, very good knowledge of Austrian criminal law and criminal procedural law Excellent written and oral communication skills, very good knowledge of German Experience at a university institute is desireable. Computer skills An interest in or knowledge of economics is desirable Excellent English skills (Cl) You are a team player with strong social/communication skills. What we offer: Inspiring working atmosphere: You are a part of an international academic team in a healthy and fair working environment. Internal further training & Coaching: Opportunity to deepen your skills on an ongoing basis. Fair salary: The basic salary of EUR 3.776,10 (on a full-time basis) increases if we can credit professional experience. Equal opportunities for all: We welcome every additional/new personality to the team! It is that easy to apply: With your scientific curriculum vitae With a letter of motivation A transcript of records With your summary of research interests / ideas for a prospective doctoral project proposal Master Degree / Diploma Via our  job portal / Apply now - button If you have any questions, please contact: Peter Lewisch peter.lewisch@univie.ac.at We look forward to new personalities in our team! The University of Vienna has an anti-discriminatory employment policy and attaches great importance to equal opportunities, the advancement of women and diversity. We place particular emphasis on enhancing women’s representation among the academic and general university staff, particularly in leadership roles, and therefore expressly encourage qualified women to apply. Given equal qualifications, preference will be given to female candidates. University of Vienna. Space for personalities. Since 1365. Data protection Application deadline: 06/15/2026 Prae Doc