[visionlist] Full Professor for “Sensory Processing in the Retina”

[Prof. Stefan Treue]

The University of Göttingen Medical School invites applications for  
the position of a

Full Professor for “Sensory Processing in the Retina” (W3)
http://www.universitaetsmedizin-goettingen.de/content/4548_9152.html

We are looking for scientists with an established and internationally  
recognized, original track of research on the processing of visual  
information in the retina. The successful candidate will coordinate  
research at the Department of Ophthalmology and will actively  
participate in further strengthening the Neuroscience Focus of the  
Göttingen Research Campus. Ideally, the candidate will bring expertise  
in physiological, morphological and/or genetic approaches to synaptic  
transmission in the retina. She/he is expected to closely interact  
with molecular, cellular, systems and computational neuroscientists  
within existing (e.g. http://www.cmpb.uni-goettingen.de/, http://www.bccn-goettingen.de/) 
  and novel collaborative research activities such as a planned  
research center on the cellular mechanisms of sensory processing. The  
candidate’s teaching activities will contribute to graduate programs  
of the Göttingen Graduate School of Neurosciences and Molecular  
Biosciences (http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/56640.html) and the  
Master and PhD program Molecular Medicine (http://www.molmed-goettingen.de/inter/links.php?sp=en 
) (teaching language: English).

Göttingen is a center of neuroscience in Europe hosting numerous  
internationally recognized neuroscience research institutions,  
including the Centers for the Molecular Physiology of the Brain (CMPB)  
and for Systems Neuroscience (CSN), the European Neuroscience  
Institute and the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience  
(BCCN) run jointly by the University of Göttingen, three Max Planck  
Institutes and the German Primate Research Center.

Qualifications required are the “Habilitation” or an equivalent  
further qualification in research and university teaching; a sound  
teaching record is a further prerequisite. Experience with grant  
applications, research planning, as well as international research  
networking will be highly desirable.

Appointments will be made by the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen as  
a Public Law Foundation according to the Higher Education Law of Lower  
Saxony (Niedersächsisches Hochschulgesetz Nds. GVBl. 2007, page 69).  
Further details will be provided on request.

The position is open to German and foreign nationals. The University  
of Göttingen is committed to employment equity and women are  
particularly encouraged to apply. Applicants with disabilities will be  
preferentially considered within the current legal regulations.

Applications including a CV, a list of publications, reprints of the  
applicant’s five most significant publications, a description of  
achievements and future plans in teaching and research, as well as an  
overview of successful funding applications should reach the Faculty  
no later than three weeks following announcement of the position, i.e.  
on September 25th, 2008.

The Dean and Member of the Board of Directors for Research and  
Education of the University Medical School, Robert-Koch-Str. 42,  
D-37075 Göttingen, Germany.

Further general information for applicants and application forms are  
available on:
http://www.universitaetsmedizin-goettingen.de/content/berufungen.html