Connectionists: Tenure-track Academic Position

[Maria Jose Escobar]

Tenure-track Academic Position
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Job Description

*Academic profile:  ELECTRONIC BIOENGINEERING*

The Department of Electronic Engineering, Universidad Técnica Federico
Santa María (UTFSM), offers a full-time tenure-track academic position, to
strengthen multidisciplinary research lines in Electronic Bioengineering.

The successful applicant will be asked to sign a performance agreement
defining the specific goals to be achieved in teaching and research during
a trial period of three years. If the assessment of the attainment of the
goals specified in the aforementioned agreement receives positive
evaluations, the candidate will be offered a permanent position in the
Department of Electronic Engineering.

*Position requirements*

1)Possession of a doctoral degree in Electronic Engineering, or similar,
with demonstrable results in the creation of knowledge, through patents or
publications in ISI indexed journals.

2)Experience in application to and management of research projects.

3)Willingness to teach in graduate programs and at undergraduate level
(theoretical and experimental).

4)Willingness to participate in training programs aimed at the use of
modern educational methodologies and in the planning of the engineering
education curriculum.

5)Applicants not fluent in Spanish should show willingness to acquire as
soon as possible sufficient proficiency to be able to teach and to interact
with students.

The trajectory and expertise of the candidate is expected to strengthen
multidisciplinary research lines in Electronic Bioengineering, such any of
the following areas:

•Modeling and analysis of biological systems

•Instrumentation associated with bioelectric signals,

•Digital signal processing and biomedical imaging.

Additionally, it is desirable that the candidate complements and
strengthens new lines of research in the Department of Electronic
Engineering, such as voice and human hearing, biomedical acoustics,
computational neuroscience, biological vision and ambulatory monitoring of
biomedical signals, human computer interaction, cognitive feedback and
statistical analysis.

More information about the Department of Electronic Engineering, UTFSM, and
the related research projects can be found at: http://www.elo.utfsm.cl ;
http://www.elo.utfsm.cl/~bioelo/ .

Additional General information on the University and on Valparaiso can be
found in

http://www.oai.utfsm.cl/en/usm/
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To Apply



*Documentation required*

1. Curriculum Vitae.

2. Proposal for personal academic development, including research and
teaching.

3. Recommendation letters from (at least, two) academics. One of the
referees should be the Ph.D. Thesis advisor.

4. Copy of most relevant publications.

5. Certificates of diplomas and degrees.

*Important Dates*

Application Deadline: November 30, 2013

*Submission of Application*

Additional information can be requested by e-mail to Dr. Juan I. Yuz (
juan.yuz at usm.cl)

cc: concursos.elo at usm.cl, convenio.doctorados at usm.cl

Applications should be sent in electronic format to: concursos.elo at usm.cl,

cc: postulaciones.rrhh at usm.cl, juan.yuz at usm.cl

The subject of the message should include the *Position Code 13-01-57*.
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