Opening of Academic Positions – Tenure-eligible Lecturers and Associate Professors

The Serra Húnter Programme (SHP) is offering 78 positions as tenure-eligible lecturer and 5 positions as associate professor at the public universities of Catalonia (Spain). Positions are available in different fields of study within sciences, life sciences, medical and health sciences, social sciences, engineering and architecture, and arts and humanities. Successful candidates will be hired by the university offering the position and are expected to cooperate with existing groups and/or develop new lines of research, complementary to those already in place. Please note that these positions also entail teaching obligations. 

Qualifications

In order to participate, candidates must hold a PhD and are expected to have an excellent record of publications in good venues in their fields, have had international exposure and have participated in competitive research projects. They should also have teaching experience. 

Before submitting an application, please check here the academic requirements that candidates need to meet. 

Benefits

For tenure-eligible lecturers, a fixed-term full-time contract is offered for a period of up to six years. At the end of the contract, the university undertakes a process to open a permanent position as associate professor provided that the candidate passes a positive evaluation. For associate professors, a full-time permanent contract is offered.

The annual starting salary is currently 37.553,42 euros for a lecturer and 41.438,62 euros for an associate professor, before taxes. 

At the end of their academic career, lecturers may also receive salary supplements for teaching and research merits. Newly hired lecturers will receive a 5.000 euros funding for their research at the start of their contract and 5.000 euros of additional funding after 3 years of contract.

At the end of their academic career, associate professors can have doubled their starting salary if they receive positive assessments in teaching and research merit evaluations. In addition to salary, contracts include health, retirement and unemployment benefits.

Selection process

The selection process has two steps. The first step, international call. The second step, competition at the university, is the actual recruitment competition process, handled by the university in accordance with its own rules. Please find further details about the process here.

Tenure-eligible lecturer:

Available positions in Sciences:

• Optics (2)
• Organic chemistry (3)
• Physics
• Statistics

Available positions in Life Sciences:

• Biochemistry and molecular biology
• Cell Biology
• Food microbiology
• Human physiology (2)
• Immunology
• Neuropsychology

Available positions in Medical and Health Sciences: 

• Animal production
• Nursery
• Physiotherapy
• Public health

Available positions in Social Sciences:

• Applied Economics (2)
• Audiovisual Communication and Advertising
• Body expression didactics
• Business management (2)
• Communication technology and new media
• Didactics and school organization (2)
• Didactics of language and literature (second language)
• Financial economics and accounting (2)
• Foundations of Economic Analysis
• Gender, race, sexuality and ethnicity in communication
• History and economic institutions
• Inclusive education
• International Relations
• Language education
• Marketing and Market Research
• Mathematics Education (2)
• Methodology of behavioral sciences
• Personality, assessment and psychological treatment
• Physical geography
• Public international law
• Science Education

Available positions in Engineering and Architecture:

• Architectural composition
• Architectural projects (2)
• Architectural technology (3)
• Artificial intelligence
• Chemical engineering (2)
• Computer Architecture
• Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (2)
• Fluid mechanics 
• Heat Engines
• Mechanical engineering
• Projects and construction engineering (3)
• Signal theory and communications (2)
• Systems engineering and automatic control
• Transportation Science and Technology

Available positions in Arts and Humanities:

• Chinese Language
• Digital arts
• English language
• French philology
• German Language
• History of contemporary art
• History of modern art
• Modern philosophy
• Music
• Painting
• Spanish language (2)

Associate professor:

Available positions in Medical and Health Sciences:

• Preventive medicine and public health

Available positions in Social Sciences:

• Criminal Law
• Social science methodology
• Communication technology and new media

Available positions in Arts and Humanities:

• General Linguistics

The call for applications will be open from September 9th until September 30th 2024.

Please check our website for further information on how to submit an application and a detailed list of available positions (section Call for applications 2024): https://serrahunter.gencat.cat/en/inici/

For any questions, please contact us.