| Group Leader Position CBS 2008-23 |
| Employer: CENTRAALBUREAU VOOR SCHIMMELCULTURES |
| Job type/Contract length: Fixed term & full time |
| Location: Utrecht, The Netherlands |
Description: The CBS is an independent research institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, situated on the campus of the largest university in the Netherlands (Utrecht). It studies fungal biodiversity in the widest sense, focusing on three priority areas, agriculture, human health, and industry (indoor air and food). The institute maintains a large culture collection of fungi and yeasts, and research groups such as those of Pedro Crous (Evolutionary Phytopathology), Robert Samson
(Applied and Industrial Mycology), Sybren de Hoog (Origins of Pathogenicity in Clinical Fungi), and Teun Boekhout (Yeast and Basidiomycete Research). Additional information is available on our website: www.cbs.knaw.nl.
The successful applicant will start and lead his or her own group on the systematics of socially important fungi, and will be supported by salaries for the group leader, a fulltime technical assistant
and a one-time salary for a 4 year PhD student. There are ample opportunities to apply for additional grants. The institute supplies excellent resources and facilities; the language of internal
communication is English. The position is tenure track, with an initial appointment for five years. |
| Closing date: 2008-12-17 |
| Requirements/Qualifications: Applicants should send a complete curriculum vitae with a list of publications and the names and
contact information of at least three references, plus a synopsis of a research plan fitting within the
framework of one of the aforementioned priority areas to the director of the institute. |
| Contact name: Prof. Pedro Crous |
Contact address: CBS Fungal Biodiversity Centre
Uppsalalaan 8
3584 CT Utrecht
The Netherlands |
| Contact e-mail: m.verweij@cbs.knaw.nl |
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