1. Director
(1) Position Descroption:
- Overall leadership of the laboratory.
- Introduction and cultivation of outstanding academic leaders and young backbone, and the establishment of a high-level scientific research and innovation team with a reasonable structure.
- Resource planning, striving for major scientific and technological projects, and promoting the output.
- International cooperation and high-level academic exchange, and enhancing the international influence of the laboratory.
(2) Basic Qualifications:
- Well-known scientists engaged in research in natural product chemistry, organic synthesis, medicinal chemistry, pharmacology, chemical biology and other related fields, who are recognized as leading talents by domestic and foreign peer experts, with broad strategic vision and profound scientific literacy.
- Proactive judgment, interdisciplinary understanding, strong organizational leadership, persistence in working on the front line of scientific research.
- Age below 50, with a senior professional title, and able to devote full-time to laboratory work.
(3) Benefits
Provide internationally competitive salary and benefits.
2. Deputy Director
(1) Position Descroption:
- Under the leadership of the laboratory director, take charge of 1-2 aspects of related work such as talent introduction and cultivation, graduate enrollment and cultivation, major project organization and implementation, discipline promotion and exchange, or platform construction.
- Exerting professional advantages, assisting the director in building a high-level scientific research team, organizing and striving for major scientific research projects, and promoting the production of major achievements.
(2) Basic Qualifications:
- Top-notch talents engaged in research in pharmacology, chemical biology, metabolomics, medicinal chemistry, organic synthetic chemistry and other related fields, with international vision and academic influence, innovation ability and development potential, and with strong organizational and management skills.
- Age below 45, with corresponding scientific research capabilities and able to devote full-time to laboratory work.
(3) Benefits
Provide internationally competitive salary and benefits.
3. Leading Scientists
(1) Position Descroption:
- Establish a high-level scientific research team, strive for and undertake important scientific research projects, and produce high-level results;
- Cultivate outstanding young talents.
(2) Basic Qualifications:
- Excellent scientists engaged in research in pharmacology, chemical biology, metabolomics, medicinal chemistry, organic synthetic chemistry and other related fields, with international vision and good academic influence, and strong organizational and management capabilities.
- Age below 45, with corresponding scientific research capabilities and able to devote full-time to laboratory work.
- Applications should be as a single PDF file and include:
- A cover letter explaining why you would like to join our laboratory
- Curriculum vitae and publication list
- A statement of scientific achievements
- A summary of your future research plans
- Five of your most important papers
- Three letters of recommendation
The application should be sent to YANG Qing via yangqing@mail.kib.ac.cn. This notice is valid for a long time until the recruitment is completed.
The State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Natural Medicines is under construction and the former (State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China) was established in 2001, as approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology. Based on the abundant plant resources in the southwest of China, the key laboratory focuses on the discovery of bioactive natural products and natural medicines including the structural diversity, biological activity and function, biosynthesis, chemical synthesis, medicinal property, and drug development.
Inquiries can be sent to the above-mentioned e-mail address. For further information about the Institute see http://english.kib.cas.cn
