SUSTech Global Biomedical Engineering Young Scientist Online Forum 2022

Introduction

The SUSTech Global Biomedical Engineering Young Scientist Online Forum is an important conference for outstanding talent recruitment. It aims to provide a platform for academic exchange among scholars at home and abroad, to promote interdisciplinary and academic innovation, and discuss approaches for the development of world-class universities and disciplines. Through the recruitment of world-class talents, we plan to build SUSTech into a high-level research university with unique characteristics.

Forum Schedule

Date of the Forum: Mid-to-late January (to be notified further)

Venue：Online Forum（will be held through an online conference platform）

Recruiting Positions:

1. Outstanding Faculty (Chair Professor / Professor)
2. Young Faculty (Associate / Assistant professor)

Application Materials and Methods

1) Application materials

• Resume
• Research proposal
• Representative papers (published in the previous 5 years), representative work
• At least 3 letters of reference （Please send the recommendation letter directly to bmehr@sustech.edu.cn）

2) How to apply

• Please submit all your application materials to bmehr@sustech.edu.cn, entitled “SUSTech Global Biomedical Engineering Young Scientist Online Forum-your research area” for evaluation. We will evaluate your application and send out invitations as soon as possible. Please send materials at your earliest convenience since the registration is limited.

3) Application due date:

Due on January 11, 2022

Successful applicants will receive the invitation before January 15, 2022.

Contact Information

Miss. Jessie Zhang

Tel: +86-755-88018466

Email: bmehr@sustech.edu.cn

Qualifications and Benefits

Outstanding Faculty (Chair Professor / Professor)

1. Requirements

• Candidate of national-level talent programs，tenured professor or associate professor of overseas well-known universities or research institutions, leading talent with internationally recognized achievements.

2. Support Policies

• Research funds：will be discuss case by case.
• Group support: Unlimited numbers of post-doctoral fellows in support. Self-determination of hiring research assistant professors (RAPs) with competitive research funding support for RAPs.

3. Remuneration

• Salary: Globally competitive salary;
• Insurances: Shenzhen’s highest level of retirement insurance, medical insurance, unemployment insurance, industrial injury insurance, maternity insurance and housing provident funds. Special high-level health insurance is negotiable.
• Subsidies: The university will assist in applying for the corresponding talent programs according to the national, provincial and municipal talent policies. Successful personnel will receive the relevant program funding / reward.

4.Benefits

• Housing and subsidies: Temporary on-campus apartments provided or subsidies to support off-campus rental housing.
• Other benefits: Permanent residence or resident visa service for scholars and family (spouse and children); Service of children’s education in SUSTech affiliated preschool, primary school and middle school; Spouse’s employment service.

Young Faculty (Associate / Assistant professor)

1. Requirements

• Under the age of 40.
• Doctoral degree obtained from internationally renowned universities and institutes; or Ph.D. degrees from Chinese universities and more than 36 months of overseas work experience, with a formal teaching or research position in famous overseas universities and research institutes.

2. Support Policies

• Research funds: At least CNY 400 million in research start-up funding is provided by the government and the university within 5 years. Or will be discuss case by case.
• Group support: Unlimited numbers of post-doctoral fellows in support. Self-determination of hiring research assistant professors (RAPs) with competitive research fund support for RAPs.

3. Remuneration

• Salary: Globally competitive salary;
• Insurances: Shenzhen’s highest level of retirement insurance, medical insurance, unemployment insurance, industrial injury insurance, maternity insurance and housing provident funds. Special high-level health insurance is negotiable.
• Subsidies: The university will assist in applying for the corresponding talent programs according to the national, provincial and municipal talent policies. Successful personnel will receive the relevant program funding / reward.

4. Benefits

• Housing and subsidies: Temporary on-campus apartments provided or subsidies to support off-campus rental housing.
• Other benefits: Permanent residence or resident visa service for scholars and family (spouse and children); Service of children’s education in SUSTech affiliated preschool, primary school and middle school; Spouse’s employment service.

About Department of Biomedical Engineering

Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) is a research-oriented public university founded in Shenzhen, China’s innovation center, to serve as a model for reforming the education system and modernizing the national university system. SUSTech has learned from world-class research institutions spanning the globe and has planned its academic disciplines based on the major needs and strategic industries emerging around the Pearl River Delta region. With a major focus on science and engineering, SUSTech still has substantial research focuses in medicine, humanities and social sciences, to maximize the potential for new ideas across disciplines for new knowledge, new technologies and social development. With the characteristic of research, innovation and entrepreneurship, the unique spirit of hard work, SUSTech aims to attract high-quality talents to its faculty, cultivate outstanding and innovative graduates, achieve internationally excellent research outcomes, advance knowledge and promote the application of science and technology, and to become a world-class research university.

The Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME) was established in June 2016. The current Head of the Department is Chair Professor Xingyu JIANG (Ph.D. Harvard University, National Outstanding Youth Fund).The Department currently has 40faculty members, including three chair professors, two professor. Many of them have been awarded “National Distinguished Youth Fund”, “Outstanding Young Scholars of National Science Foundation of China” and”National Distinguished Experts”of The Recruitment Program for Innovative Talents. Research areas include mechanomedicine, multiscale/multimodal biomedical imaging, wearable devices and wireless monitoring, biomedical MEMS, de novo regenerative engineering, computational medicine for big data and health informatics.

The core culture of the Department is “Adventurous, Arduous, Amiable”. We sincerely welcome more global talents to join us to create an interdisciplinary innovative research platform, and make the platform a world-class biomedical engineering program within ten years.

welcome all eligible scholars at home and abroad to apply and attend