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> From: Kim Mens <[email protected]> > Subject: Do you know any candidates for assistant positions in our department > Date: May 10, 2012 10:28:45 AM GMT+02:00 > To: researchers RELEASED <[email protected]> > > Dear all, > > I am urgently looking for possible candidates to fill up some teaching and > research assistants in our department. Such an assistant typically has > teaching and research duties and gets up to 6 years to obtain a PhD (to be > renewed every 2 years). The 6 years is because of the extra teaching load as > compared to a normal researchers. Regarding research, they get to choose what > professor they want to do research with and negotiate the research topic with > him; evidently I'm open to have them under my guidance, but the choice is up > to them. Regarding teaching, the teaching charges are distributed equally > among the different assistants based on their capacities and interests. The > positions are very interesting, and they get a real contract and fair salary > (as compared to some other countries). A university level degree of master in > computer science or computing science engineering (or something equivalent) > is a must. (For foreigners, equivalence of their diploma will need to be > verified but that can be done afterwards I think.) Knowledge of French is > strongly desired because the bachelor years are still taught in French and we > are already quite short on French-speaking researchers to help out with > teaching duties in the bachelor years. Knowledge of English is also positive > since our Master years are taught in English. Anyway, if you would know > anyone, please pass them this information. The deadline is very short since > all forms need to be filled in and submitted electronically by May 18, which > would mean they need to start working on it right now. A internal selection > commission of professors from our department will select the three best > candidates from all those who applied. > > More instructions on how to apply can be found here : > http://www.uclouvain.be/11617.html > The candidate needs to fill out the digital form that is available there. If > they click on "Listes des postes vacants" they will see the different > vacancies currently available for the entire university. The ones related to > our department can be found under the faculty "Ecole Polytechnique de > Louvain" and more specifically the vacancies with identification numbers > 00001941, 00002203, en 00004257. > You will see that 2 of these 3 have a description that is particularly > dedicated to computer science. The third one looks more general, but in fact > it has been decided recently that it will also go to computer science, but we > weren't able to change the description anymore. Interested candidates should > thus fill in the form and are strongly advised to apply to each of the 3 > positions, even though they can receive only one. (I agree the procedure is a > bit absurd, but what did you expect, this is Belgium.) > > Of course you can always contact me for more information or if the procedure > is not 100% clear (even though I also had to look all of this up on the > official university webpage). > > That's it for now... > > Thanks for your attention to this mail. > > Prof. Kim Mens > Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) > Institute of Information & Communication Technologies, Electronics and > Applied Mathematics (ICTEAM) > Ingénierie Informatique (INGI) > Place Sainte Barbe 2, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique > [email protected] > > >
