Application Guidelines for Professor Position
Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering （Laboratory of Biological and Environmental Information Engineering）

Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo
1

Position

Professor

2

Number of Positions

One

3

Starting Date

March 1, 2024 or the earliest possible date thereafter4

Term of Employment

Non fixed-term

5Work location

1-1-1, Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo（University of Tokyo Yayoi Campus）

6

Affiliation

Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Laboratory of Biological andEnvironmental Information Engineering
Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo
1)Research area: Biological and Environmental Information Engineering: The research field thatutilizes the methods of information engineering to acquire and analyze information from the cellularlevel to the scale of plant individuals and communities, and further, to the regional and global
environmental scales such as ecosystems and biospheres, thereby elucidating the relationshipbetween organisms and the environment.
2)Teaching responsibilities for undergraduate course subjects: Lectures for undergraduate students
7Job Details

must be given in Japanese
3)Teaching responsibilities for graduate course subjects: Research in Biological and Environmental
Engineering I, Laboratory Work in Biological and Environmental Engineering, Seminar in Biologicaland Environmental Engineering, Research in Biological and Environmental Engineering II,Advanced Laboratory Work in Biological and Environmental Engineering, Advanced Biological andEnvironmental Information Engineering I, Advanced Biological and Environmental Information
Engineering Ⅱ, Fundamental Engineering in Biological Environment, Agro-Informatics Seminar

8Working Hours

9Days Off

Discretionary labor system: Working hours is deemed as 7 hours and 45 minutes per day
Saturdays, Sundays, national holidays, and year-end through New Year holidays (from December 29to January 3 of the following year).
Basic Salary will be decided taking your academic background, professional background, etc. intoaccount.

10 Salary

Wage Raise System: Yes

Examples: Doctor / from JPY 340,000
Various Allowances:Bonus (twice a year), Commuting Allowance (basically up to JPY 55,000), and

11 Insurance

other allowances decided by the University
Appointees will be enrolled in the Mutual Aid Association of Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports,Science, and Technology as well as employment insurance.
1) Ph.D., an equivalent qualification.
2) The applicant must have outstanding research achievements in the field of Biological andEnvironmental Information Engineering, and actively leads the research field.
3) The applicant can actively educate students in the field.

4) The applicant can actively participate in the organizational management of the graduate school
12 Required Qualifications and department, and who can promote education and research in cooperation with faculty members
in various research fields.
5) The applicant must be able to teach the subjects listed in 2),3) of 7. in both Japanese andEnglish. The applicant must have proficiency in Japanese.
6) Those who have ability and enthusiasm to actively develop educational and research activities
from an international perspective and social collaboration with industry, government, etc.
1)Curriculum vitae (Please use The University of Tokyo Standard Resume Form, downloadablefrom the following link: https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/about/jobs.html)
2)List of academic publications
3)Reprints of major papers, not more than 54)Educational Achievements
13 Application documents5)Acquisition of competitive funds (Within about 5 years)6)Social contributions (academic society activities, committee activities, etc.)
7)Summary of research until now (about 750 words in English or 1500 characters in Japanese)
8) Research direction after assuming the position (about 750 words in English or 1500 characters inJapanese)9) Educational plans and aspirations (about 750 words in English or 1500 characters in Japanese)
1）All documents must be received on or before （Friday, January 19, 2024）. (Note; changed from

14 Application Deadline

Friday, December 8,2023, on December 9,2023)

2) After screening of the application materials, short-listed candidates will be interviewed.
Application documents should be sent as a set of PDF files with a password toagyoshi[at]mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp（please replace [at] with @) with the subject line "Applicationdocuments". If the total file size of the documents exceeds 50 MB, send the documents in separate
emails so that the attachment size for each email does not exceed 50MB. Make sure of receipt
acknowledgement of any documents from agyoshi[at]mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp（please replace [at] with15

Contact Information@)
1-1-1, Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8657 JAPANGraduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo
Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering, (Prof. Shuichiro Yoshida)
TEL: +81(0)3-5841-5344
E-mail: agyoshi[at]mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp（Please replace [at] with @.）16 Probation Period

There will be a six-month probationary period at the beginning of the appointment.

17 Employer

The University of Tokyo
Please note that application documents will not be returned.
Personal information obtained through this application process will be used only for the screening
and the recruiting of the applicants, never for any other purpose.
The University of Tokyo promotes gender equality. We encourage applications from female
researchers.
Status of measures to prevent second-hand smoke: No smoking on the premises (There is a18 Additional Informationsmoking area outdoors)
During the period of employment, sharing controlled technology to you may be prohibited by
FEFTA and it may become difficult to achieve your job as a faculty or a staff member of theUniversity if you are under the control of a foreign government, corporation or university bycontract, or under the control of a foreign government by economic interests. In such a case, youneed to keep the contract or interests within the range that does not incur such restrictions.
We'll take your English and Japanese language skills into account.