3-4 PhD Positions, Department of Chemistry, University of Jyväskylä, Finland (2016)

The University of Jyväskylä is a nationally and internationally significant research university and an expert on education that focuses on human and natural sciences. The University is Finland’s leading expert in teacher education and adult education, as well as the major exporter of education. The Faculty of Sport Sciences is the only one in the country.

The Department of Chemistry, in the Faculty of Mathematics and Science is currently seeking to recruit staff for the position of

3-4 Doctoral Students beginning January 1, 2016 or as agreed, employment contract length maximum of four years

The main areas of research and teaching at the Department of Chemistry are structural chemistry, renewable natural resources and chemistry of living environment, computational chemistry and spectroscopy, and supramolecular chemistry. Furthermore attention is paid on development of high quality education in chemistry, especially education of chemistry teachers.

The selected Doctoral Student will be assigned to the appropriate research group in the Department. The tasks of Doctoral Student focus on research concerning doctoral studies, doctoral thesis, assisting teaching tasks and other tasks related to these tasks.

The job-specific salary component of a Doctoral Student is based on the job demands level 1-4 (EUR 1 795,12 €/month –EUR 2 462,01 €/month) according to the salary system concerning teaching and research staff at universities. In addition, a personal performance-based salary component amounting to the maximum of 46.3% of the job-specific salary component is also paid.

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