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The Seventh PEIYANG Forum for Young Scholars, Tianjin University

Date of the Forum

April 7 to 10, 2019

Introduction of the Forum

Nowadays, Tianjin University has been building up an array of world-renowned and top-notch recruitment system in line with the in-depth reforming of the personnel system. At the core of wide range of academic inquiry and cooperation is the commitment to the construction of Double First-Class by which it would attract and engage the best minds in pursuit of greater understanding and pioneering discoveries. TJU is dedicated to establishing diversity and achieving continued academic excellence by creating a vibrant and thoughtful circumstance and offering a long-term faculty support. In fulfilling its mission at the behest of the New Era, TJU has successfully held the“Peiyang Forum for Young Scholars”for six sessions, which have invited approximately one thousand youth scholars worldwide. As a key pathway to the academic governance, it is a crucial component in its efforts to ensure that a more diversified and competent peer faculty network will be established and strengthened, thus eventually fostering the construction of the First-class University project.

Forum Arrangements

Arrangements

The 7th PEIYANG Forum for Young Scholars will be held from April 7th to 10th, 2019. Deadline for the application is April 1st. (If there are special circumstances, please contact the Human Resources Department of TJU)

You can contact us for further discussion if you are unable to participate in this forum due to time constraints.

Academic Disciplines

Science and Engineering

Chemical Engineering and Technology, Instrument Science and Technology, Optical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Hydraulic Engineering, Naval and Ocean Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Power Engineering and Engineering Thermo-physics, Mechanics, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Materials Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Control Science and Engineering, Information and Communication Engineering, Electronic Science and Technology, Computer Science and Technology, Intelligence Manufacturing, Marine Science and Technology, Environmental Science and Engineering, Food Science and Engineering, Software Engineering, Geology, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Environmental Health, Nutrition and food.

Medical, Life Sciences and Pharmacy

Neural and Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence and Human-Machine Interaction, Preclinical Medicine, Clinical Medicine, Rehabilitation Medicine, Medical Imaging, Medical Engineering and Translational Medicine, Public Health and Emergency Rescue, Epidemiology and Statistics, Disaster Medicine, Occupational Health, Computational Biology,Structural Biology, Chemical Biology,Synthetic Biology, Medical Biology, Biological Manufacturing, Biomicrofluidics, Biosensing, Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical Analysis, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Bioinformatics and Pharmacy Administration.

Management, Humanities and Social Science

Economics, Management Science and Engineering, Business Administration, Public Administration, Architecture, Urban and Rural Planning,Landscape Architecture, Arts, Law, Language and Literature, Education, Journalism and Communication, Psychology and Theory of Marxism.

Peiyang Scholars Program

Consisted of two academic levels, which is A Class level and B Class level, Peiyang Scholars Program has set up several posts, that is, the tenured professor and tenured associate professor. Collaborated with attractive salary and advanced management, it aims to provide excellent talents with a favorable environment of innovation and development necessary to be connected with international circumstances, and furthermore, to recruit top-notch faculty for Tianjin University to establish “First-Class” university. The detailed compensation and benefits are as shown below.

A-Class:

Appointment: Full-time tenured professor

Salary: An annual salary before tax from RMB 650,000 to 700,000 (all-inclusive salary).

Relocation allowance: RMB 2,500,000 (including national and Tianjin municipal government support), temporarily rented housing within the university is provided.

Start-up research fund: RMB 2.5-4.5 million for science and engineering fields (including the national government support) and 0.3 million for humanities and social science fields.

Team support: During the first employment period, 1 doctoral student and 3 master students quotas are given annually, 1 post-doctoral assistant quota is supported.

Other relevant policies: TJU will solve the children’s education. The spouse's employment would be settled down.

B-Class1:

Appointment: Full-time tenured professor

Salary: An annual salary before tax from RMB 550,000 to 600,000 (all-inclusive salary).

Relocation allowance: RMB 200,000-1,000,000 (including Tianjin municipal government support).

Start-up research fund: TJU will provide RMB 1 million for science and engineering fields and 0.2 million for humanities and social science fields.

Other relevant policies: TJU will solve the children's education.

B-Class2:

Appointment: Full-time tenured associate professor

Salary: An annual salary before tax from RMB 400,000 to 450,000 (all-inclusive salary).

Relocation allowance: RMB100,000-500,000 (including Tianjin municipal government support).

Start-up research fund: TJU will provide RMB 0.5 million for science and engineering fields and 0.1 million for humanities and social science fields.

Other relevant policies: TJU will solve the children's education.

Qualifications

Below the age of 40.

Holding a PhD degree from home and abroad by prestigious universities, and shall have working experiences at abroad.

Show great academic potentials and outstanding achievements with international influence.

Application Procedures

Please scan the QR code below for signing up:

Qualified applicants for attending the forum will receive official invitation letter via E-mail sent by the respective .

Expenses

The travel and accommodation expenses for the qualified applicants will be covered by Tianjin University.

School Contact Information

Human Resource Contact Information

Mr. Zhang, Ms. Zhang

E-mail: pyforum@tju.edu.cn

Telephone: +86-22-27402079

Fax: +86-22-27404177

Address: B316, Xingsun Building, No.135 Yaguan Road, Haihe Education Park, Tianjin 300350, P.R.China

Brief Introduction to Tianjin University

As the first modern university in China, Tianjin University (TJU) was founded in 1895 with Peiyang University being its predecessor. It has been recognized nationwide and overseas for its motto of“Seeking Truth from Facts”, its ethos of“Precision in Learning and Strictness in Teaching”and its tradition of“Patriotic Dedication”. Supported by Chinese Ministry of Education, it is also one of the higher learning institutions to be included into the "985", "211" and "2011" Projects in the first batch. In 2017, Tianjin University was listed in the country’s“Double First-Class”university project.

Having put forward its principles characterized as strengthening Engineering, consolidating Science, revitalizing Liberal Arts, and flourishing Medical Science, Tianjin University has been adhering to the purpose of targeting at the major strategic demands and the top-notch scientific and technological development globally, as well as anchoring in the major area as to the national economy, which has been supported by top quality talents fostering based on the high-level scientific and technological research. Thus, it has formed a discipline layout featured by a harmonized multidisciplinary development covering such disciplines as economy, management, literature, jurisdiction, medicine, education, art and philosophy, with Engineering discipline being oriented. Established on talents training, discipline development and scientific research as a whole, TJU puts its emphasis on the reform and innovation of institutional mechanisms by bringing together all kinds of innovative elements inside and outside of the campus, integrates all kinds of innovative elements both inside and outside the university, continuously improves the standard of university management and the quality of talent training,strenuously combines research and teaching together, and also promotes industry development with research outputs and serves the country development for innovation as well.

In line with the in-depth reforming of the personnel system, TJU has been furthering the comprehensive innovation following the inception of Peiyang campus, and putting much effort on the layout of the discipline development. To push forward the reform on faculty promotional mechanism, firstly, TJU has established the“Peiyang Faculty Career Development System”in TJU; Secondly, it has improved the tenure system characterized by TJU; thirdly, it has implemented the classified management of faculty team, and fourthly, it has established the assistant professors program, etc., thus building institutional mechanisms which is adaptable to the personnel management of modern university system. As a result, TJU has been promoting the talents team building at each level, and fostering the circumstance in which the people nearby would feel delighted and the people afar would desire to join and the talents would feel convenient to innovate and create.