Faculty position, Associate Professor, The Research Center of Mathematics for Social
Creativity (MSC), the Research Institute for Electronic Science (RIES), Hokkaido
University
1. Position Title: Associate Professor at The Research Center of Mathematics for Social
Creativity (MSC), the Research Institute for Electronic Science (RIES), Hokkaido University
2. Area of Specialization: Interdisciplinary Science to Bridge Theory and Experiments in
Biology (including Systems Biology, Nanoscience, Dynamical Systems, andNonequilibrium Statistical Physics)
3. Qualification: Applicants are required to have a Ph.D. or doctoral degree, who canpresent lectures in both Japanese and English.
4. Employment Status:
Tenured, but it is highly desired to be promoted within thirteen years.
5. Expected Start Date:
March 1st, 2017 or the earliest date thereafter.
6. Documents to Be Submitted:(1) Curriculum vitae (with photograph, telephone number, and e-mail and mailingaddress) including educational records, professional career records, activity records inacademic society and awards.
(2) Achievements List: journal papers, review papers, books, and others should be listed
respectively. All authors, the first and the last pages, with or without peer review
should be shown for each publication. Journal papers without peer review should belisted as others. Domestic and international presentations (divided into categories:invited, oral, poster) should be listed respectively.
(3) Reprints or copies of five significant articles (original papers and/or review articles).
(4) Brief statement of applicant’s research interests and appealing points, including thesummary of applicant’s past and present research (~2 pages in A4-size sheet).
(5) Perspectives for future research along research interests in the host laboratory ofmolecule & Life Nonlinear Sciences (~2 pages in A4-size sheet).
(6) Educational experiences and policy (1 page in A4-size sheet).

(7) List of research funds the applicant acquired in the past, including the names of thefunds, project titles, amounts, periods of research, and allotted amounts (if not theprincipal researcher).
(8) Contact information of at least four reference persons (affiliation, telephone number ande-mail address, at least one person should be outside of Japan).
7. Deadline
January 10th, 2017 (Applications must be postmarked by January 10th, 2017 for postal mailfrom domestic).
8. Mailing Address and Notice
We will accept the application by e-mail or internet file attachment from foreign countries(Note that only the postal mail is accepted from Japan). The documents will not bereturned. Submitted documents are strictly protected and we do not use the obtained
personal information for any purpose other than the screening. Applicants must indicate“Application Documents for Associate Professor of MSC, RIES, Hokkaido Univ.” in thesubject of e-mail (or on the envelop for postal mail from Japan to the postal mailing address
below), and send both to Ms. Maiko Ishida-Muramoto <muramoto@es.hokudai.ac.jp> withcarbon copy to Prof. Tamiki Komatsuzaki tamiki@es.hokudai.ac.jp.
Postal Mailing Address
Prof. Tamiki Komatsuzaki
Molecule & Life Nonlinear Sciences Laboratory
Research Center of Mathematics for Social Creativity
Research Institute for Electronic Science (RIES)
Hokkaido University
Kita 20 Nishi 10, Kita-ku, Sapporo 001-0020, Japan
TEL&FAX +81(11) 706-9458
9. Inquiries
Prof. Tamiki Komatsuzaki, e-mail：tamiki@es.hokudai.ac.jp
URL: http://mlns.es.hokudai.ac.jp
10. Others
We recruit one associate professor, and would like to seek candidates from avariety of fields. We would appreciate it if you could forward this job-opening information

to well-qualified person. Interview may be carried out in the process of selection. The
successful candidate should have a certain level of knowledge with methodology andconcepts of any of the following: nanoscience (especially measurements), chemical physics,and biophysics, dynamical systems theory, nonequilibrium statistical mechanics. This
position also requires ability to pursue not only mathematical structure but also developing
methods to connect and correspond to existing experimental phenomena. For example;
those who are knowledgeable about underlying theory of nano measurement and are able
to address the development of informatic approaches, those who have theoreticalbackground and experience with advanced measurement experiment and are able toaddress the development of informatic approaches, those who have a background inphysics such as dynamical systems theory or quantum mechanics and are able to address
the development of informatic approaches by looking squarely the actual data, arepreferred. We are seeking for a candidate who will be working together on the ongoing
research projects of our laboratory.