The Institute of Science, Technology and Society, Tsinghua University is one of the pioneers in China who have conducted STS related research and teaching science 1985, and probably one of the biggest STS groups all over the world, which have about 20 full-time faculties, 20 post-doctoral research fellows, as well as 80 graduate and international joint-training students. 

Tsinghua University is a top 2 university in China. At present, Tsinghua has 14 schools and 56 departments with faculties in science, engineering, humanities, law, medicine, history, philosophy, economics, management, education and art. The University has now over 25,900 students, including 13,100 undergraduates and 12,800 graduate students. As one of China’s most renowned universities, Tsinghua has become an important institution for fostering talent and scientific research.

Offer 

You are appointed as assistant professor (full-time). A Tenure Track contract enables you to direct your own career based on fixed performance agreements, in relation to which promotion from assistant professor to associate professor and subsequently to full professor is possible. A definitive assessment will take place no later than 6 years (2 employment terms) after commencement of the employment, following which employment for an indefinite period and promotion to associate professor may be agreed upon. 

Salary is paid by the university according to a certain criteria. Other benefits include, you will get the opportunity to rent the university apartment at an extremely reasonable price, and you can also have the priority to send your kids to the university’s kinder garden, primary and middle school.

As our qualified candidate, you should hold a Ph.D. in philosophy of Science and Technology or STS in world top universities. A fluent language capability in both Chinese and English is also needed. You also have experience in teaching at the university level, preferably including students in science & engineering, social science, or other non-STS fields, and preferably including professional and/or applied STS topics. You should as well have an excellent list of publications in peer-refereed journals, and have relevant international experience.

For more information, please contact Dr. Chadwick WANG, assistant professor in our institute (email:chadwick@tsinghua.edu.cn; phone: +86-10-62794966-253). 

Your application should reach us by September 28th, 2012, and should include a CV, a letter of application (including a summary of your teaching evaluations), a summary and table of contents of your dissertation (or your full dissertation), no more than 5 representative papers published in peer-refereed journals or at least one writing sample if you don’t have any (both Chinese and English papers are acceptable), and contact information for 3 or more references.