Open Faculty Positions for Female Only, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Hyogo
1. Open positions: total 5 female members in Professors, Associate Professors, Assistant Professors,or Research Associates(The university is voluntarily committed to promote diversity, and make efforts to take in diverse
groups. In accordance with the special provisions of the Equal Employment Opportunity Law, wewill open these positions for female only in order to proactively improve the current situation wherefemale faculty members are considerably few.)
2. Department: Graduate School of Engineering
3. Research and teaching area:
Electrical Engineering (Associate Professor)
Generation, transmission, utilization, and storage of electrical energy, and other related fields(electric circuits, electric machinery, electrical physics, electromagnetics, renewable energy,
biomedical engineering, electrical materials, and measurement)
Subjects:[Doctor course]
Advanced Seminar on Electrical Engineering,
Advanced Researches on Electric Power[Master course]
Advanced Seminar on Electrical Materials and Engineering,
Advanced Experiment on Electrical Materials andEngineering, and other related subjects[UndergraduateBasic subjects on electrical engineering such as electric circuitcourse]and data science, Specialized subjects on electricalengineering, Experiments of Electrical Engineering, and otherrelated subjects
Systems and Control Engineering (Associate Professor)
Cyber-physical technologies, analysis, design, and control of dynamical systems, data-driven
approaches, optimization, machine learning, and other related fields
Subjects:[Doctor course]
Advanced Seminar on Electrical Engineering,
Advanced Researches on Electric Power[Master course]
Advanced Seminar on Electrical Materials and Engineering,
Advanced Experiment on Electrical Materials andEngineering, and other related subjects[UndergraduateBasic subjects on electrical and electronic engineering such ascourse]
electric circuit and data science, Specialized subjects onelectrical and electronic engineering, Experiments ofElectrical Engineering, and other related subjects
Intelligent Information Engineering (Assistant Professor or Research Associate)
Intelligent Information Engineering is a technology that greatly advances the "fusion of
cyberspace and physical space," which is essential in digital transformation (DX), that is,incorporating real-world events into virtual space and organizing and analyzing them withcomputers. Therefore, it emphasizes research topics in a wide range of fields, such as AI, humaninterfaces, intelligent robotics, design engineering and computer vision, which are all oriented
towards the real world.
Subjects:[Master course]
Advanced Experiment on Electronics and Computer Scienceand other subjects related to Communication and Informatics[Undergraduate
Experiments of Computer Science, Seminar of Computer
course]Programming, and other subjects related to Communication
and Informatics

Fluid engineering (Professor)
Department of Mechanical Engineering is seeking a candidate who can take on the challenge ofnew possibilities as a research leader in the field of fluid engineering related as many industrial
fields such as computational science, medicine, environment, and biotechnology, and who is as
an educator in fluid engineering as a core discipline of mechanical engineering.
Subjects:[Doctor course]
Study on Mechanical Engineering[Master course]
Advanced Seminar on Mechanical Engineering,
Mechanical Engineering related subject[Undergraduate
Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, Machine Shop Practice,course]Mechanical Design and Drawing, Exercises of Creative
Design, Seminar on Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical engineering related on material science (Assistant Professor or Research Associate)
The development of materials is essential for the development of mechanical engineering, andmechanical materials have traditionally played this important role. To extend this research area,
the Department of Mechanical Engineering is seeking to appoint a suitable candidate withextensive cross-disciplinary knowledge including resin materials and biomaterials. Materials
include not only steel materials, but also all other materials. Simulation is also included in thisfield as a research approach.
Subjects:[Master course]
Advanced Seminar on Mechanical Engineering[Undergraduate
Related courses such as Mechanical Engineeringcourse]experiments, Related courses such as Creative DesignExercises, Graduation Research
Metal Material Science (Professor)
The main subject is structural materials, especially steel materials. Research and teaching on
manufacturing technology, processing technology, and characterization technology for thecreation of new materials.
Subjects:[Doctor course]
Seminar on Microstructure-Design of Materials,
Advanced Studies on Mechanical Properties of Materials[Master course]
Theory of Crystal Dislocations[Undergraduate
Mechanical Properties and structure of Materials,course]
Introduction of Materials Science and Engineering,
Introduction to Mechanical Engineering and Materials,
Graduation Research
Chemistry of inorganic materials (Associate Professor)
Realization of a sustainable society based on sustainable energy is one of the most important
issues in modern society, and we need to work on the development or improvement of new
inorganic materials for that purpose. We are now recruiting an associate professor who canpromote the field of inorganic materials chemistry.
Subjects:[Doctor course]
Advanced seminar of applied chemistry[Master course]
Advanced exercise for applied chemistry, Chemistry related toinorganic materials[Undergraduate
Inorganic chemistry, Electrochemistry, Exercise for chemicalcourse]
experiments, Graduation researchReaction and energy engineering (Professor)
A professor will be hired, who will involve in education and research in the field of reaction andenergy engineering for leading green transformation (GX) and achieving SDGs with throughknowledge of whole aspect of thermochemistry, and with hope to challenge elucidation of rate
process in energy-related materials and their production processes regarding hydrogenproduction, CO2 capture and storage, utilization of waste heat.
Subjects:[Doctor course]
Seminar on Materials Production[Master course]
Thermochemistry, Seminar for Material and Energy[Undergraduate
Physical Chemistry, Chemical Thermodynamics, Experimentcourse]on Chemical Engineering, English Comprehension forMaterials Science and Chemistry, Graduation research
4. Qualification:(a) Female candidates only(b) Ph. D to be taken by arriving date in case of application for professor, associate professor, andassistant professor, Master's degree to be taken by arriving date in case of application forresearch associate(c) Japanese language communication skills are required for teaching, instructional and otherduties.
(d) English language communication skills are required for giving lectures.
5. Employment status
Professor and associate professor: Full-time (tenured)
Assistant professor: Full-time (Non-tenured), fixed-term (5 years, Reappointment once is possible).
Internal selection is available for assistant professors to be promoted to senior lecturers (tenured).
Note that brilliant achievements and/or outstanding publications are then required to the applicants.
Research associate: Full-time (Non-tenured), fixed-term (5 years, Reappointment once is possible).
Internal selection is available for research associates to be promoted to assistant professors (Nontenured). The research associates must obtain a Ph.D. to be eligible for internal selection.
6. Arriving date: April 1, 2024
7. Application forms:(a) Cover letter including “research area” and “position” for which you apply.
(b) Curriculum vitae (Form 1)(c) List of publications (book, original articles) and reprints of main publications (professor andassociate professor: within 5, assistant professor and research associate: within 3) (Form 2)(d) Educations and activities (Form 3)(e) Summary of research (Form 4) (professor and associate professor: 800 words, assistantprofessor and research associate: 400 words)(f) Plan of research and teaching (Form 5) (professor and associate professor: 800 words, assistantprofessor and research associate: 400 words)(g) Recommendatory letter from the dean or a person who can be asked about the applicant(including the name and contact information). For electronic submission via JREC-IN Portal
or e-mail, the applicant or recommender should send the recommendatory letter by registeredmail or e-mail to the addresses below.
Mailing address: Hironori Fujisawa, Dean of Graduate School of Engineering, in care of theSection of General Affairs, University of Hyogo, 2167 Shosha, Himeji, Hyogo 671-2280,
JAPAN.
E-mail address: koubo_eng@eng.u-hyogo.ac.jp

8. Application deadline: June 30, 2023 (JST, deadline for receipt)
9. Review: Reviewing application forms and interview (including lecture demonstration for professor
and associate professor)
10. Submission:(a) Application via JREC-IN Portal
You can apply through JREC-IN Portal. Details can be found at JREC-IN Portal,
https://jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekTop?ln=1(b) Application via e-mailSend application materials to the e-mail address below. When the documents are too large tosend by e-mail, it is recommended to submit via secure file transfer service.
E-mail: koubo_eng@eng.u-hyogo.ac.jp
The subject should be “Application forms for Research area and position”, ex. “Application
forms for Electrical Engineering, Professor”.
11. Inquiry e-mail address: Hironori Fujisawa
Dean of Graduate School of Engineering
Tel: +81-79-267-4802 E-mail: koubo_eng@eng.u-hyogo.ac.jp
12. Note: The department to which the employee belongs may be changed due to futureorganizational restructuring.