Professor in Pharmaceutical Biosciences
Type of employment: Permanent post
Extent: 100 %
Location: Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Göteborg
First day of employment: By agreement
Reference number: PER 2014/179
The appointment as Professor in Pharmaceutical Biosciences is placed at the
Unit for Pharmacokinetics and Drug Metabolism at the Department of Pharmacology
within the Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy. The
unit consists of one professor, two senior lecturers and PhD students. The unit
conducts biopharmceutical research, teaching at the undergraduate and advanced
level within the dispenser and pharmacy programs and graduate student
education. Teaching is carried out in Swedish and English. For more information
about the unit's activities, visit the homepage
http://www.pkdm.se/.
Apart from the Unit for Pharmacokinetics and Drug Metabolism, the Department of
Pharmacology hosts a number of research groups working the fields of
neuropharmacology, psychopharmacology and the autonomic nervous system. The
department conducts excessive teaching not only within the dispenser and
pharmacy programs but also, e.g., within the programme in medicine.
The Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology at the Sahlgrenska Academy,
University of Gothenburg also carries out preclinical and clinical research in
neuroscience, rehabilitation, neurophysiology, endocrine physiology and
circulatory physiology.
Subject area
Pharmaceutical Biosciences
Specific subject description
Pharmaceutical Biosciences includes research that will benefit the development
of new pharmacotherapies or better use of existing drugs with respect to
efficacy and safety. The subject fits for example pharmacometrics,
patient-oriented pharmacy, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and drug
absorption.
Job assignments
We are now recruiting a professor in Pharmaceutical Biosciences. Duties include
scientific activities, such as research, research training and generation of
external funding as well as teaching and examination at basic and advanced
levels, supervision of master's dissertations, course development, and course
management within the dispenser and pharmacy programs.
Eligibility
The qualifications for academic positions are given in Chapter 4, Section 3 - 4
of the Higher Education Ordinance.
Documented scientific and educational skill will be required.
Assessment
Regulations for the evaluation of qualifications for academic positions are
given in Chapter 4, Section 3 - 4 of the Higher Education Ordinance.
The primary selection criterion is scientific skill and experience. The second
selection criterion is educational skill and experience. The third selection
criterion is administrative skills. Pharmaceutical undergraduate degree will be
seen as meritorious since the teaching primarily will take place within the
dispenser and pharmacy programs. Ability to generate external funding will also
be regarded as an important merit. The documented ability to cooperate will be
considered as well.
Applicants lacking adequate education with respect to teaching in higher
education may be asked to complete an educational training programme within the
first year of employment.
Additional information
Application must be formatted according to the Sahlgrenska academy instructions
for teaching positions:
http://www.sahlgrenska.gu.se/english/staff_info/teacher-recruitment/electronic-application
Please note in particular that the following documents must accompany the
application:
- A maximum of 10 scientific papers which the applicant wishes to refer to in
particular (in
full text, as PDF files).
- Documentation of supervision of PhD students, post doc students.
- Other certificates / proof / rating proving applicant's qualifications.
Complementary documents, such as publications/books should be sent to the
following address:
Göteborgs universitet
Sahlgrenska akademin
HR-avdelningen
Box 400
SE 405 30 Göteborg
SWEDEN
Reference number, PER 2014/179 should be clearly stated when sending
complementary documents.
The applicant is responsible for ensuring that the application is complete in
accordance with the announcement and that it is received by the University of
Gothenburg not later than application deadline.
______________________________
Angela Äbelö, PhD
Senior lecturer
Unit for Pharmacokinetics and Drug Metabolism
Dept of Pharmacology
Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg
Sweden
Postal address: Box 431, 405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden
Phone +46 31 7863238
http://www.pkdm.se/