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Ended
Date of update : 2025/02/12 End date of accepting applications : 2025/03/12
Ended
Date of update : 2025/02/12
End date of accepting applications : 2025/03/12

Work location : Hokkaido district - Hokkaido

Date of publication : 2025/02/13

The position of Associate Professor or Lecturer in the Laboratory of Vehicle Robotics, Research Group of Bioresource and Environmental Engineering, Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research, Research Faculty of Agriculture.

D125020784

National university

Hokkaido University

Research field : Others - Others - Vehicle Robotics

Associate Professor : Regular employee - Tenured - Non-tenure track - Probationary period present

Lecturer level : Regular employee - Tenured - Non-tenure track - Probationary period present

Job description

  • Background of the recruitment and description of the project

    Due to vacancy

    https://www.agr.hokudai.ac.jp/

  • Work content and job description

    [Immediately after hiring] Duties concerning education and research at the Research Faculty of Agriculture, Graduate School of Agriculture and School of Agriculture
    [Scope of Change] Duties as determined by the University

  • Assigned department

    Existing departments

    [Immediately after hiring] Laboratory of Vehicle Robotics, Research Group of Bioresource and Environmental Engineering, Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research, Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University. (see Appendix 1) [Scope of Change] Location as determined by the University

Job type

  • Associate Professor
  • Lecturer level

Research field

  • Others - Others

    Vehicle Robotics

Wages

  • Common to all Job Types

    Annual Salary : 6 million yen ~ 9 million yen

    Associate Professor：6 million～9 million
    Lecturer：6 million～８ million

Working hours

  • Common to all Job Types

    Working hours :08:30-17:00

    Break time :12:15-13:00

    Holidays : Saturdays, Sundays, holidays stipulated in the Law Concerning National Holidays, December 29-January 3, and other days designated by the university

    Overtime and other explanations : - Discretionary Labor System for Professional Work or Fixed Working Hour System based on agreement
    - Determined in accordance with the Hokkaido University Working Hours, Break Times, Holidays and Leave Rules
    - [For Discretionary Labor System for Professional Work]
    The work hours per day are deemed as 7 hours and 45 minutes
    - [For Fixed Working Hour System]
    Work hours: 8:30 to 17:00
    Break time: 12:15 to 13:00
    Overtime work: Applicable

Application requirements

Qualifications

  • Education and Degree Requirements

    Ph.D. / Doctor

  • Description

    (1) Applicants should have a doctoral degree or Ph.D.
    (2) Applicants should possess excellent research achievements related to smart agricultural technology such as agricultural robotics and agricultural information engineering, and the ability to actively provide educational guidance to graduate and undergraduate students from an international perspective. (see Appendix 1).
    (3) Applicants should have the ability to provide research guidance regarding the above subjects for undergraduate and graduate students both in Japanese and in English.
    (4) Applicants must arrive at his/her post on the scheduled date.

Employment Type

  • Common to all Job Types

    Regular employee

Contract period

  • Common to all Job Types

    Tenured - Non-tenure track

    Probationary period present

    3 months

Work location

  • 060-8589 Hokkaido Kita 9 Nishi 9, Kita-ku, Sapporo

Compensation

  • Various systems

    Pay increase system : available

    Retirement allowances : available

    Transportation expenses : available

    Retirement age : available

  • Insurance

    Employees' Health Insurance : available

    Employees' Pension Insurance : available

    Worker's accident insurance : available

    Employment insurance : available

  • Measures for preventing passive smoking at the workplace

    No smoking on campus except for the designated outside smoking areas

Application Considerations

Number of hired

    1 person(s)

    Hiring date : 2025/07/01

    Starting date : 2025/07/01

  • Job content supplemental explanation

    The final candidate is selected by evaluating achievements and academic ability. The rank of the successful candidate is given based on her/his achievements and career.

Application period

  • 2025/02/13~2025/03/12 Deadline for receipt

Application method

  • Application documents (specified forms)

    • 01_Research Faculty of Agriculture_Hokkaido University_Associate Professor or Lecturer (Laboratory of Vehicle Robotics).pdf
    • Curriculum Vitae.xlsx
    • Statement-of-Research-Achievements-Example.doc

  • Attached documents

    Application Form : Mailing
    Achievements and Activities : Mailing

    Other Mailing Documents
    Application materials:
    (1) Two sets of curriculum vitae *
    (2) Two sets of publication list and biographical data on research activities *
    (3) Two sets of summaries of research activities with citing the reference number in the publication list (either around 800 words in English or around 1,000 characters in Japanese)
    (4) PDF files of all peer-reviewed publications (Submit PDF files of the names corresponding to the publication list in a USB memory stick or other electronic media.)
    (5) Two sets of summaries of applicant’s perspectives on education and (if any) educational activities including those made in English (either around 800 words in English or around 1,000 characters in Japanese)
    (6) Two sets of summaries of applicant’s perspectives on research (either around 800 words in English or around 1,000 characters in Japanese)
    (7) Two sets of the list of two references for the applicant, showing his/her name, institution, position, telephone number, and e-mail address

    * Forms of curriculum vitae, publication list, and biographical data on research activities are available at this web page.

  • Return of application documents

    We will dispose of all application documents responsibly.

  • Application document submission method (physically mailed documents)

    060-8589 Hokkaido Kita 9 Nishi 9, Kita-ku, Sapporo
    Prof. Tomohiko Kubo, Chair of the Personnel Committee, Ph.D. Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University

    Precautions : The requested documents should be submitted via registered mail to the postal address indicated above. Please indicate on the envelope "Application for Associate Professor in the laboratory of Vehicle Robotics" in red.

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  • Selection

    Please note that an interview may be conducted if necessary. In that case, the applicant is responsible for any travel expenses. The submitted document will not be returned to the applicant. Applications will not be used for purposes other than this job posting.

  • Notification of result

    By e-mail or mail

Contact details

Hokkaido University

Research Group of Bioresource and Environmental Engineering, Division of Fundamental Agriscience Research, Research Faculty of Agriculture

Prof. Shoichiro Hamamoto, Ph.D.

0117062565

shoichi@agr.hokudai.ac.jp

Notes

(1) Hokkaido University is actively promoting both education and research activities under the concept of advancing diversity and inclusion. In addition, Hokkaido University is actively supporting to realize a well work-life-balance and is providing ideal environments for those people who would like to show their full potentials. The detail of the activity in Hokkaido University can be found in Hokkaido University Homepage.

(2) The final candidate is selected by evaluating achievements and academic ability. The rank of the
successful candidate is given based on her/his achievements and career.

Appendix
1. The Laboratory of Vehicle Robotics constitutes the Research Group of Bioresource and
Environmental Engineering, together with five other laboratories, namely, Land and Water
Management, Ecological and Environmental Physics, Vehicle Robotics, Agricultural and Food
Process Engineering, and Agricultural Bio-System Engineering. The Laboratory of Vehicle Robotics
deals with various problems related to the field environment and food production. Education and
research are conducted on smart agricultural technology, including the intelligent systems and
robotics for agriculture, and the collection and analysis of spatial information related to farmland and
crops.

2. The successful applicant will partly or fully give the lectures listed below, for which the Laboratory
of Vehicle Robotics is responsible.
(1) Subjects in the Graduate School of Agriculture: Study on Agriculture Science I and II, Seminar on
Agriculture Science I and II, Advanced Smart Agriculture, and others.
(2) Subjects in the School of Agriculture: Applied Mathematics, Automatic Control Engineering, Field
Robotics, Field Information Systems, Seminar on Bioresource and Environmental Engineering I
and II, Field Training on Bioresource and Environmental Engineering, Laboratory Work on the
Instrumentation of Bioresource and Environmental Engineering, Laboratory Work on Bioresource
and Environmental Engineering, Introduction to Physics, Graduation Thesis, and others.
(3) Subjects in the general education: Environment and People, and others.

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