Inria International Chairs: Call for applications

PARIETAL Team © Inria / Photo Kaksonen

PARIETAL Team
© Inria / Photo Kaksonen

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Inria is hiring experienced researchers for long visits (12 months along five years), giving them the opportunity to develop or strengthen collaborations in their expertise fields/areas with Inria project-teams.

Deadline for submission is September 15th, 2015. The number of available positions for 2016 will be determined early 2016.

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Eligibility :

  • Have your main professional activity outside France,
  • Commit yourself to spend twelve months  divided in at most five periods at Inria during the Chair holding period, the dates of the visits being decided with the leader(s) of the hosting  project-team(s) according to a provisional schedule,
  • Propose a work program related to the objectives of the hosting project-team(s),
  • During your visits at Inria, you will commit yourself to give seminars or lectures to a large audience and to mention Inria in any scientific production achieved at Inria.

Note that you will have to provide a written authorization of your main employer.

In delivering an Inria International Chair, Inria is committed to provide you a working environment at the level of international standards, to remunerate you and to take in charge your travel expenses for coming in France (in the limit of one travel per year).

 How to apply ?

 Applications must contain :

  • A detailed curriculum vitae,
  • A research project for the five years of the Chair, including perspectives for technological development and possibly transfer and a precise agenda for the visiting periods,
  • A letter from the leader(s) of the hosting project-team(s).
  • Recommendation letters or references of international experts will be appreciated.

Your application file must be sent to the director(s) of the Inria Research Center(s) of the hosting project-team(s).

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 Recruitment process

  • Application deadline for the 2015 call: September 15th, 2015
  • Inria ensures that each applicant fulfills the conditions.
  • A selection Committee reviews the applications on October 2015 and gives an advice on each application.
  •  Acceptance results: the chairs are delivered by Inria’s CEO for a 5 years period.

Information about the program: http://www.inria.fr/en/institute/recruitment/inria-international-chairs/inria-international-chairs

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