Offre d’Emploi – Poste de professeur (Genève, Suisse)

Le Centre pour la Vie dans l’Univers (de l’Université de Genève) recrute un professeur (associate or assistant (tenure track) professor). Le domaine de recherche doit s’inscrire dans le vaste domaine de la chimie prébiotique et/ou de la biochimie des origines de la vie et de ses précurseurs.

INSTITUTE: The Section of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Life in the Universe Center (CVU) at the University of Geneva offer an innovative and vibrant scientific environment with access to an outstanding infrastructure and a culture of collaborative work across disciplines spanning chemistry-biology-physics and beyond. The research area of the successful candidate should be in the broad field of prebiotic chemistry and or biochemistry of early life and its precursor(s); the transition from simple molecules towards more complex matter with Life-like features – a self-sustaining chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution. The ideal candidate will have contributed major advances in the areas relevant to this field. Examples are: self-replicating systems, mechanisms to translate genetic information into a functional output such as catalysis or out-of-equilibrium assemblies, complex systems and their analysis, physico-chemical mechanisms of protocell emergence, ancient metabolic systems, evolution of cellular Life.

ASSIGNMENT: Full-time position (40h/week). Duties include carrying out research at the highest international level, securing external funding and teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Moreover, the successful candidate will supervise masters’ and doctoral theses and will take up administrative and organization duties, in particular in the CVU.

ACADEMIC TITLE REQUESTED: PhD or equivalent. Experience in research supervision and teaching experience. Publications in high-ranked international journals.

STARTING DATE: 2026, or upon mutual agreement.

Applications including:

Cover letter

Detailed CV together with a list of publications

Copy of highest degrees/diploma

Research and teaching statements

List of referees whom can be contacted directly by the search committee. Recommendation letters are not requested in the application dossier.

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