[Taxacom] Job: Lecturer in Systematic Botany

[Stefan Andersson]

Lund University announces the following vacancy:

UNIVERSITY LECTURER IN SYSTEMATIC BOTANY: Evolutionary processes in cryptogams

at the Department of Ecology (Section for Plant Ecology and Systematics)

Ref. no: 4478

Description: The Department of Ecology has more than 200 employees, of whom approximately 80 are PhD students. The Department is comprised of six Sections, including the Section for Plant Ecology and Systematics, which represents a substantial part of the plant research carried out within Lund University (http://www.planteco.lu). A number of lecturers within the Section have recently retired or will retire within the next few years. We are interested in recruiting an enthusiastic plant systematist, with a research profile within the area of cryptogam evolutionary processes and diversity, who will play a central role in the long-term development of undergraduate teaching and PhD supervision within the Section.

Job description: The position is full-time and the duties of the lecturer will include research, undergraduate and graduate teaching, supervision of PhD students and administration. We would like to appoint a lecturer whose research lies within the subject area of cryptogam evolution and diversity. Approximately half of the lecturer's time will be devoted to teaching (in both Swedish and English) and half to research/administration. Teaching duties and the balance between teaching and other activities may vary over time. The lecturer will initially be expected to contribute to basic undergraduate courses in systematic botany (including both angiosperm and cryptogam systematics), to advanced undergraduate/Masters courses in cryptogam biology and plant evolution/biodiversity, and to courses for graduate students. The lecturer's research should focus on mosses, lichens or ferns and the evolutionary processes that are involved in differentiation between populations and species. Topics of particular interest include gene diversity/gene flow and phylogeography / phylogeny. Experience of research collaboration with ecologists will be regarded as a merit. Because the Science Faculty in Lund has limited resources for research funding, the successful applicant will be expected to seek external funding to cover their research costs and at least 25% of their salary.

Qualifications: Applicants should have a PhD in systematic botany or within a comparable subject, with a high level of competence in cryptogam biology/systematics. They should have good postdoctoral scientific merits - as a minimum "Docent-competence" or postdoctoral experience commensurate with Swedish docent-competence (a strong postdoctoral portfolio of research and publication).

The successful applicant will have a well-developed research record. She/he should be a competent and enthusiastic teacher, with appropriate pedagogical training and experience of course planning and course administration. Experience of supervising graduate students is a requirement. We especially value the ability of the applicant to finance their research with external funds, attract co-workers and successfully cooperate with other scientists and national and international teachers. The lecturer will be expected to be able to teach in Swedish (alternatively in Danish or Norwegian) within one year of taking up her/his appointment.

The qualifications required for appointment to the position of university lecturer are a doctoral degree, or equivalent scientific qualifications, and pedagogic qualifications (as specified in Chapter 4, paragraph 7 of the Higher Education Ordinance). In the appointment of lecturers and professors, the same attention will be paid to pedagogic as to other qualifications. The University Board has decided that, to be appointed for a permanent (without time-limit) position as university lecturer or professor, the applicant must have undergone a university pedagogical education of at least five weeks - or in other ways have acquired comparable competence. Applicants are thus urged to describe and document their teaching experience thoroughly.

The basis for the assessment of qualifications in the appointment of university teachers is laid out in Chapter 4 of the Higher Education Ordinance (SFS 1998:1003). (An English translation can be found at: http://utbildning.regeringen.se/inenglish/pdf/heo_jan03.pdf)
The Faculty Board's recommendations as to how applicants should present their pedagogical qualifications are available at http://www.naturvetenskap.lu.se/o.o.i.s/2319 or can be obtained from The Faculty Office, Margareta Millestam, PO Box 118, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden, or E-mail: Margareta.Millestam at kanslin.lu.se.

Those who have not previously held a position as a university lecturer may initially be subject to a one-year probationary period of employment.

A person appointed to a permanent position as a lecturer at a Swedish university shall be appointed to a permanent professorship at that university, if he or she requests it and is judged to have the necessary qualifications.

The University applies individual salary setting within certain established limits. Applicants are thus invited to state their desired starting salary.

The University is actively working towards a more even sex ratio among its academic staff. We therefore wish to encourage women as well as men to apply for this position.

Applications should be addressed to Lund University, The Faculty of Science Board, and be received by The Registrar, Lund University, PO Box 117, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden no later than Friday 16 October 2006. Applications made by fax or e-mail must be complemented immediately with signed original documents.

Please state the reference number in the application.

Please note that applications are to be submitted in English. 

The following should be included in the application:

1 A signed and witnessed curriculum vitae including a list of scientific publications. (4 copies)

2 A short description of the applicant's scientific and pedagogical work, signed by the applicant. It should be made clear in this presentation which studies, results and other achievements the applicant wishes to be taken into consideration. (4 copies)
	
3 Witnessed copies of certificates and other formal documents. (4 copies)

4 A maximum of 10 scientific publications that the applicant wishes to be taken into special consideration. (4 copies. These should be numbered according to the list of publications and be collected in 4 identical packages. Three of these are to be sent together with the application. If necessary, the fourth package will be sent to a further expert).

All material should be received by the Registrar by the date given above. Other material referred to in the application may be requested at short notice and should be sent to The Administration Office, Faculty of Science, PO Box 118, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden.

If the applicant so requests, the application papers will be returned to them - at the earliest two years after the legal conclusion of the appointments procedure (according to the rules of the National Archives of Sweden (RA-FS 2004:1 § 2).

Information on the position can be obtained from Professor Ursula Falkengren-Grerup, tel: +46 46 222 44 08 or e-mail: Ursula.Falkengren-Grerup at ekol.lu.se and Secretary Galina Garkavia, tel +46 46 222 92 95 or e-mail Galina.Garkavia at ekol.lu.se.

Information on terms and conditions of employment and the application procedure can be obtained from the Director of Human Resources, Lennart Nordberg, tel. +46 46 - 222  3001, E-mail: Lennart.Nordberg at kanslin.lu.se.

On behalf of the Faculty of Science,

Margareta Millestam