CAS - MPG Partner Institute in the field of Computational and Theoretical Biology

[Bernhard Schoelkopf]

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG)
intend to establish a

CAS - MPG PARTNER INSTITUTE
IN THE FIELD OF COMPUTATIONAL AND THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Applications are invited for the positions of up to three full-time
department directors. Legally and administratively the Partner
Institute will be an institute of the CAS, located on the CAS Campus
of the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (SIBS). The aim of
this interdisciplinary and theoretically oriented Institute is to
account for the increasing involvement of mathematical,
computer-science and engineering methods in modern biology and to
allow for novel approaches of research at the interfaces between
disciplines (e.g. bioinformatics, computational biology, systems
biology, computation biophysics, theoretical neurobiology or
evolutionary biology).

The proximity to experimentally oriented, internationally competitive
research institutes on the SIBS campus guarantees close scientific
cooperation and interaction between theoretical and experimental
research.

Strong collaboration with one or more Max Planck Institutes in Germany
is expected from the directors and will be expressively documented and
fostered by appointing them as External Scientific Members of MPG.

To aid the final definition of promising reseach areas and the
identification of suitable candidates, the Chinese Academy of Sciences
and the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft will jointly organize a Symposium on
Perspectives in Computational and Theoretical Biology which will be
held in Shanghai on December 19 - 20, 2004.

We invite applications from scientists with an outstanding
international research record who are willing to take full advantage
of the unique challenge to build up a new, interdisciplinary and
theoretical/computational institute by cooperating with the
experimental institutes on the SIBS campus and in association with a
Max Planck Institute in Germany.

The recruitment and appointment procedure for the director positions
will be carried out jointly by CAS and MPG. The positions will offer
full scientific and economic independence equivalent to that of a
director/head of department at a Max Planck Institute.

The initial appointment will be for five years and can be extended after
review by the Institute's internationally composed Scientific Advisory Board.
Qualified candidates should submit a curriculum vitae, a short statement of
research interests and scientific goals, reprints of key publications and the
topic (or abstract) of the intended presentation at the symposium.

To ensure full consideration, please submit a hard copy of your
application before October 31, 2004 to

CHEN Zhu (Vice President of CAS)
Chinese Adademy of Sciences
52 Sanlihe Road
Beijing 100864
P.R. China

and PDF-files of your application to the contact persons in Munich and
Shanghai:

E-mail: spielmann at gv.mpg.de
Barbara SPIELMANN
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Hofgartenstrasse 8
D – 80539 München
Germany
Tel.: +49-89-2108 1365
Fax: +49-89-2108 1041

E-mail: yyyang at sibs.ac.cn
YANG Yanyun
Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences
Chinese Academy of Sciences
319 Yue Yang Road
Shanghai 200031, P. R. China
Tel: +86–21-5492 0965
Fax: +86–21-5492 0968