Our Research Group has the opportunity to obtain a permanent contract
financed by ICREA (Catalan Institution for Advanced Research and Studies,
http://www.icrea.es).

A couple of months ago ICREA opened applications from Research Groups.
Now, our project entitled "Nonlinear Optical Properties: quantum
mechanical methodology applied to the design of new materials" (short description
at http://iqc.udg.es/m4/icrea02/abstract.pdf, longer description at
http://iqc.udg.es/m4/icrea02/longer.pdf) was positively evaluated, among
others, by ICREA, so we have been allowed to participate in a second
phase, when candidates interested in becoming permanent researchers in
our Group must apply (there is a webpage in English explaining this:
http://www.icrea.es/ca/home.asp?lang=en). Fileld is "Experimental
sciences and mathematics", subfield is "Theoretical Chemistry".

Salary will be similar to that of a university researcher in Spanish
institutions, with salary increases depending on scientific productivity
evaluated periodically.

Contracts are offered at either a junior or a senior level. To get a
contract, candidates must hold a Ph.D., must have been a minimum of
three years of research activity outside Spain, and have postdoctoral
experience.

Although candidates must apply directly to ICREA; we think that our
Group can first help tentative researchers with the details of this
research position opening. Note that applications must arrive through
ICREA's website by 30 june.

Paperwork is quite simple: full Curriculum Vitae, along with a short
statement of purpose and description of the work the candidate would
carry out - just two pages in English, stating the reasons of his/her
interest for the ICREA position and the nature of his/her future
research projects. As usual, letters of reference are required.

Note that candidates will be hired by ICREA, yet will carry out research
in the very Universities or Research institutions. In the case of the
project mentioned above, research would be carried out within the
Institute of Computational Chemistry, University of Girona.

It is quite important for us that the candidate may work in the project,
especially in changing from the molecular scale to the nanoscale, in
particular periodic systems - thus, a good knowledge of methodology and
calculation procedures for periodic systems is convenient. Ability to
deal with BSSE issues is also important, while knowledge of NLO is also
convenient.

Miquel Duran
Departament de Química i Institut de Química Computacional
Universitat de Girona
quel_at_iqc.udg.es
http://iqc.udg.es/quel/quel.html
Received on 2002-06-06 22:54:15