The Institute of Environmental Medicine (IMM) has an opening for a Post Doctoral ResearchFellow position (forskarassistent) to be placed within any of IMM’sresearch units. The successful candidate is expected to conduct highquality research with a clear relevance to environmental health riskassessment. The research will be done within the framework of the unitwhere the position is being placed although collaboration across unitsand multidisciplinary work are encouraged. A wide range of environmentalfactors of human health concern are addressed by researchers at IMM;see ki.se/IMM. However, other areas of relevance to environmentalmedicine and risk assessment are also possible.
Qualifications
To qualify, the applicant must hold a doctor’s degree or a foreignqualification deemed equivalent to a doctorate. Applicants who havecompleted their degree no more than five years before the last date forapplications should be given priority. Candidates who have completedtheir degree earlier than this should receive equal priority if specialgrounds exist. Special grounds include leave of absence because ofsickness, service in the total defence, positions of trust in tradeunion organisations and student organisations, parental leave and othersimilar circumstances. A total of two years can be added for the abovereasons on presentation of written testimony.
A person who has been employed as an Postdoctoral Research Fellow for more than a totalof three years may not be given other employment as PostdoctoralReserach Fellow within the same or a similar subject area at the same orany other institution of higher education.
The term of employment as Postdoctoral Reserach Fellow at KI is fixed at KI to two + twoyears, subject to evaluation after the first two years.
Assessmentgrounds
In connection with the appointment of Postdoctoral ResearchFellow, we will accord special weight to academic skills, particularlydemonstrated excellens in research.
Form of employment: Temporary
Contact persons :
Professor Anders Ahlbom, Chairman of theInstitute of Environmental Medicine, phone +46 8 524 87470, email: anders.ahlbom@ki.seor Deputy Director, Professor Gunnar Johansson, phone +46 8 524 87752,email: gunnar.johanson@ki.se.
The union representatives are Marika Berglund, SACO, phone +46 8 524 87536, email:marika.berglund@ki.se and Anna Lena Marcus, OFR, +46 8524 87568, anna.lena.marcus@ki.se
Please send your application, marked with reference number 3524/2010, to reach us byno later than August 31 2010 to toregistrator@imm.ki.se or Karolinska Institute, Institute ofEnvironmental Medicine, Irene Tjernberg, Box 210, 171 77 Stockholm.
The following documents should be enclosed with your application andwritten in English:
- CV, qualifications and a description of futureresearch, presented in accordance with Karolinska Institutet’squalification portfolio.
- A selection of five scientific papers
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