<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="auto"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Steven Bouillon</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:Steven.Bouillon@ees.kuleuven.be">Steven.Bouillon@ees.kuleuven.be</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Jun 29, 2021, 6:56 AM<br><br></div><br>
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<p>Dear all, <br>
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<p>I would appreciate if you could circulate the position
announcement below within your network if you see suitable
candidates. <br>
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<p>Thanks in advance and apologies for cross-posting, if any. <br>
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<p>Best wishes</p>
<p>Steven</p>
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<div style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:0px;white-space:pre-line"><font size="-1" face="Arial">In the Science, Engineering and Technology Group of KU Leuven, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Division of Soil and Water Management and Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, there is a full-time tenure-track academic vacancy in the area of Soil science and soil fertility.
We are looking for internationally oriented candidates with an excellent research record and with educational competence within the field of soil science and soil fertility and offer an attractive research environment with extensive facilities, and an attractive starter package.
The division is embedded within the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. The mission of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences is to carry out state-of-the-art scientific research and teaching with respect to the functioning of geo- and ecosystems at different spatial and temporal scales, including the interaction between humans and the environment and the sustainable management of natural resources.
The Division of Soil and Water Management currently has 9 professors and 65 research and technical staff members. The division conducts research on soil fertility, nutrient and carbon fluxes in terrestrial and aquatic systems, environmental chemistry and microbiology, soil physical and hydrological processes and land surface remote sensing and data assimilation.
The Faculty of Bioscience engineering is the organiser of bachelor-, master-, honours-, postgraduate- and doctoral programmes in the field of the Applied Biological Sciences. De bachelor- and about half of the master programmes are taught in Dutch. The other programmes are English taught. Graduates of most of the Dutch and English taught master programmes are entitled the professional title ‘bioscience engineer’ : <a href="https://www.biw.kuleuven.be/en/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.biw.kuleuven.be/en/</a>.</font></div>
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<div style="box-sizing:inherit"><font size="-1" face="Arial">For
the present vacancy, we wish to recruit a junior academic
staff member, in the tenure track system, willing to
develop a research program at the forefront of soil
science, seeking to unravel the biological, geochemical
and pedo-genetic processes that determine soil quality, in
particular soil fertility, as a determinant of sustainable
agricultural production, with attention for productivity
in developing countries.</font></div>
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<div style="box-sizing:inherit"><font size="-1" face="Arial">The
challenge of producing sufficient food for a growing and
more prosperous world population within the carrying
capacity of the Earth will form the overarching framework
of your research. It will require an integrative approach
and close collaboration with related disciplines, and may
focus on natural and anthropogenic changes that affect
soil quality, on changes in agro-ecosystems, on soil
management options that improve the productive capacity of
the soil.<br style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:0px">
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<div style="box-sizing:inherit"><font size="-1" face="Arial">You
set up an international collaboration around your research
program.<br style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:0px">
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<font size="-1" face="Arial"> You make use of, and provide
scientific support for the analytical lab facilities of the
Division Soil and Water Management (stable isotope
instrumentation, ICP-MS and ICP-OES, growth chambers,
radioactive tracer work, state-of-the-art microbiological
methods, LC-MS/MS).</font></div>
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<div style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:0px;padding-left:2rem"><font size="-1" face="Arial">You ensure high-quality education within the
area of soil science and, more generally, in environmental,
agricultural and environmental sciences, with a clear
commitment to the quality of the programme as a whole. You
also contribute to the pedagogic project of the
faculty/university through the supervision of master theses
and as a promoter of PhD students.<br style="box-sizing:inherit">
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You develop your teaching in accordance with KU Leuven’s
vision on activating and researched-based education and make
use of the possibilities for the educationalist
professionalization offered by the faculty and the
university.</font></div>
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<div style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:0px;padding-left:2rem"><font size="-1" face="Arial">As member of the academic staff of KU Leuven
you use your research and educational activities as leverage
for collaboration with partners in the global south. You
engage in the public debate and in the support of local,
regional and (inter-)national authorities for development
and monitoring of policy initiatives. In this function you
will enable collaborations with industry.<br style="box-sizing:inherit">
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You take up an active role in councils, educational
committees, working groups of the university and in
particular, of the division, department and faculty you will
belong to.</font></div>
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have a PhD in soil science (Bioscience Engineering or
related).</font></li>
<li style="box-sizing:inherit"><font size="-1" face="Arial">You
have a strong scientific track record with international
publications.</font></li>
<li style="box-sizing:inherit"><font size="-1" face="Arial">Your
demonstrated scientific mobility is considered a strong
asset.</font></li>
<li style="box-sizing:inherit"><font size="-1" face="Arial">You
have expertise in field and lab experimentation and
analytical techniques.</font></li>
<li style="box-sizing:inherit"><font size="-1" face="Arial">You
have demonstrable qualities related to academic education.
Teaching experience is an advantage.</font></li>
<li style="box-sizing:inherit"><font size="-1" face="Arial">You
have the capacity to lead and animate a research team and
to attract research funding.</font></li>
<li style="box-sizing:inherit"><font size="-1" face="Arial">You
possess organisational skills and have a cooperative
attitude. You also possess leadership capacities within a
university context. Strong interpersonal skills with the
ability to function in international teams and a
cooperative attitude.</font></li>
<li style="box-sizing:inherit"><font size="-1" face="Arial"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">A<span> </span></span><span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:0px">good
command of spoken and written English is required</span>.
KU Leuven offers courses in academic English.</font></li>
<li style="box-sizing:inherit"><font size="-1" face="Arial">The
official administrative language used at KU Leuven is
Dutch. If you do not speak Dutch (or do not speak it well)
at the start of employment, KU Leuven will provide
language training to enable you to take part in meetings.</font></li>
<li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:0px"><font size="-1" face="Arial">Before teaching courses in Dutch or
English, you will be given the opportunity to learn Dutch
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<div style="box-sizing:inherit"><font size="-1" face="Arial">We
are offering full-time employment in an intellectually
challenging environment.</font></div>
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<font size="-1" face="Arial"> KU Leuven is a research-intensive,
internationally oriented university that carries out both
fundamental and applied scientific research. Our university is
highly inter- and multidisciplinarily focused and strives for
international excellence. In this regard we actively work
together with research partners in Belgium and abroad and
provide our students with an academic education that is based
on high-quality scientific research.<br style="box-sizing:inherit">
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<div style="box-sizing:inherit"><font size="-1" face="Arial">KU
Leuven, alma mater of acclaimed scholars such as Erasmus,
Andreas Vesalius and Georges Lemaître, has a rich scientific
tradition and history. Its internationally renowned research
and educational programmes lead to its consistent rank among
the best 50 universities worldwide.</font></div>
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<div style="box-sizing:inherit"><font size="-1" face="Arial">An
attractive package of start-up funding (100.000 euro plus a
4-year PhD-scholarship) is provided to ensure a smooth
start-up of your research activities.</font></div>
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<div style="box-sizing:inherit"><font size="-1" face="Arial">You
will work in Leuven, a historic, dynamic and lively city
located in the heart of Belgium, within 20 minutes from
Brussels, the capital of the European Union, and less than
two hours from Paris, London and Amsterdam.</font></div>
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<div style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:0px"><font size="-1" face="Arial">As a junior researcher you will be
appointed as assistant professor in the tenure track (tenure
track docent) for a period of 5 years. After this period and
a positive evaluation, you obtain a tenured position as
associate professor (hoofddocent).</font></div>
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<div style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:0px"><font size="-1" face="Arial">For more information please
contact Prof. Gert Verstraeten, Departmental Chair of
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, e-mail: <a href="mailto:gert.verstraeten@kuleuven.be" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">gert.verstraeten@kuleuven.be</a>,
tel.: +32 16 32 64 11 and Prof. Erik Smolders, Departmental
Vice Chair of Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
e-mail: <a href="mailto:erik.smolders@kuleuven.be" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">erik.smolders@kuleuven.be</a>,
tel.: +32 16 32 96 77.<br style="box-sizing:inherit">
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problems with online applying, please contact <a href="mailto:solliciteren@kuleuven.be" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">solliciteren@kuleuven.be</a>.</font></div>
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<div style="box-sizing:inherit"><font size="-1" face="Arial">Add
to your application following documents (more information is
available on the KU Leuven job site):</font></div>
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<li style="box-sizing:inherit"><font size="-1" face="Arial">your biosketch in which you indicate your
added value as an academic for research, education and
service to society of your past career and of your
future activities (maximum 2 pages);</font></li>
<li style="box-sizing:inherit"><font size="-1" face="Arial">a file on your five most important
publications or realizations;</font></li>
<li style="box-sizing:inherit"><font size="-1" face="Arial">an extensive cv including a full
publication list;</font></li>
<li style="box-sizing:inherit"><font size="-1" face="Arial">your research plan with focus on the
development of your research line and research team in
relation with the colleague-researchers of the entity of
employment (maximum 4 pages);</font></li>
<li style="box-sizing:inherit"><font size="-1" face="Arial">your vision on academic education and its
organization (maximum 2 pages);</font></li>
<li style="box-sizing:inherit"><font size="-1" face="Arial">your contribution to society by outreach
and public communication on science and technology,
internal representation in boards and councils and
service activities directly in relation to your
developed expertise (maximum 1 page);</font></li>
<li style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:0px"><font size="-1" face="Arial">your vision on leadership
(maximum 1 page).<br style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:0px">
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<div style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:0px"><font size="-1" face="Arial">KU Leuven places great importance
on research integrity and ethical conduct and will
therefore ask you to sign an integrity statement upon
appointment.<br style="box-sizing:inherit;margin-bottom:0px">
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later than September 30, 2021 via the<span> </span><a href="http://www.kuleuven.be/eapplyingforjobs/60023575" style="box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(8,167,235);text-decoration:underline;margin-bottom:0px" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">online application tool</a></span></font></div>
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environment where all talents can flourish, regardless of
gender, age, cultural background, nationality or impairments.
If you have any questions relating to accessibility or
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