The Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) at the University of Trento, Italy, invites expressions of interest from highly motivated scholars with the view to open a principal investigator position at the level of Associate Professor or Tenure Track Assistant Professor (in the latter case, if after 3 years the tenure track AP has obtained the Italian Scientific Habilitation for Associate Professor, they will be evaluated to obtain the Associate Professor Position at CIMeC).
Applicants are expected to have had a 3-year position abroad at the time and level they apply to.
Research Profile
- attract external funding,
- lead a research team,
- have good connections to the international community.
The successful candidate will work in the CIMeC Language, Interaction, and Computation Lab (CLIC) at the Center for Mind-Brain Sciences (CIMeC). They are expected to be interested in interacting with the rest of the CIMeC faculties on general cognitive neurosciences issues and help develop cutting-edge research at the intersection between computational linguistics, theoretical linguistics, and general cognition and neuroscience. Knowledge of Italian is appreciated but not required.
The University of Trento particularly welcomes EoI from female candidates and underrepresented minorities.
Teaching
The candidate will be required to contribute to the Center’s overall goal of delivering high-quality teaching in English at the BSc, MSc, and PhD levels.Tenure Track Assistant Professors are expected to teach 90 hrs/year, while duties for Associate and Full professors are 120 hrs/year. The position holder will have a personal grant for research/travel expenses. The research group will negotiate the possibility of supervising PhD students fully funded by the University.
Other terms and Conditions
Income will depend on the candidate's career stage; the candidate will benefit from tax breaks for the first years.
UniTrento and CIMeC
In the last 5 years, CIMeC PIs have won many competitive national and international grants, including several European Research Council (ERC) grants, other European Framework grants, and highly competitive grants awarded by the local province. The center has been recognized as Italy's leading cognitive neuroscience research department. It is part of the Erasmus Mundus European Master Program in Language and Communication Technologies.
Expressions of interest in English should include a brief motivation letter and should be addressed to:
Prof. Yuri Bozzi
Director of the Center for Mind-Brain Sciences
Corso Bettini 31, 38068 Rovereto Italy
Expressions of interest sent by email are welcomed and should be sent to cimec.clic-lab [at] unitn.it
Expression of interest should be sent by the 1st of February, 2024