2022 ZJU Global Recruitment

Basic Requirements

Applicants should work full-time at ZJU, with passion for education, rigorous learning spirit, cooperative spirit, good health, and high recognition of Zhejiang University culture and values.

Recruiting Categories

Top-notch Faculty

Position:“Qiushi” Chair Professor

Requirements: Scholars with special achievements and extensive international academic influence recognized by international peers, such as Nobel Prize, Turing Award, Fields Medal or other international award winners; Academicians of the Academy of Sciences or the Academy of Engineering of developed countries; top scholars from home and abroad of comparable level.

Remuneration and Benefits:

1. Remuneration: Successful candidates will be provided with competitive remuneration and welfare benefits, negotiable based on actual demands.

2. Housing: Assistance will be given in solving the housing problem, with temporary apartments provided. Welfare apartments can be purchased if they meet the requirements of the state and the university.

3. Start-up fund: negotiable according to actual demand;

4. Office and laboratory space: Competitive office environment and laboratory space will be provided;

5. Team building: Team building is vigorously supported, with a guaranteed number of doctoral students enrolled each year; recruitment of postdoctoral fellows will be supported;

6. I Service guarantee: Assist in the school enrollment for children and job for spouses; assist in household registration, permanent residence permits for foreigners, etc.

Outstanding Faculty

Position: Zhejiang University “Qiushi” Distinguished Scholar（including “Qiushi” Distinguished Professor,“Qiushi” Distinguished Professor for Teaching, “Qiushi” Distinguished Scholar for Experiments, “Qiushi” Distinguished Clinician，Zhejiang University Leading Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences）.

Requirements: Applicants with full professorship (or an equivalent title) in a prominent university (“Qiushi” Distinguished Clinician requires both professor and chief physician in principle); with recognized academic achievements in his/her field of study and capability of leading the discipline to catch up or maintain the international advanced level, and with excellent organizational leadership ability.

 Remuneration and Benefits:

1. Remuneration: Successful candidates will be provided with competitive remuneration and welfare benefits.

2. Housing: Assistance will be given in solving the housing problem, with temporary apartments provided. Welfare apartments can be purchased if they meet the requirements of the state and the university.

3. Start-up fund: Provide corresponding scientific research start-up funds according to the discipline;

4. Office and laboratory space: Competitive office environment and laboratory space will be provided;

5. Team building: Team building is vigorously supported, with a guaranteed number of doctoral students enrolled each year; recruitment of postdoctoral fellows will be supported;

6. Service guarantee: Assist in the school enrollment for children and job for spouses;  assist in household registration, permanent residence permits for foreigners, etc.

Core Faculty

Position：Tenured Professor、Tenured Associate Professor

Requirements: 

Tenured Professor Scholars with recognized academic achievements in his/her field of study, achieve outstanding achievements in teaching, research and talent cultivation, reaching the equivalent level of tenured professor at a prominent university.

Tenured Associate Professor Scholars with special achievements and certain academic influence, achieve outstanding achievements in teaching, research and talent cultivation, reaching the equivalent level of tenured associate professor at a prominent university.

Remuneration and Benefits:

1. Remuneration: Successful candidates will be provided with competitive remuneration and welfare benefits.

2. Housing: Assistance will be given in solving the housing problem, with temporary apartments provided. Welfare apartments can be purchased if they meet the requirements of the state and the university.

3. Start-up fund: Provide corresponding scientific research start-up funds according to the discipline;

4. Office and laboratory space: Competitive office environment and laboratory space will be provided;

5. Team building: Qualified for doctoral student enrollment with support of the university and department/school; recruitment of postdoctoral fellows will be supported;

6. Service guarantee: Assist in the school enrollment for children and job for spouses;  assist in household registration, permanent residence permits for foreigners, etc.

Zhejiang University

Established in 1897, Zhejiang University (ZJU) is located in the historical and picturesque city of Hangzhou.

Zhejiang University has always adhered to the tradition of “Seeking Truth and Pursuing Innovation” as the university motto, with the world development as its responsibility and pursuit for truth as its goal. It is the spirit of ZJU and the common values for all ZJUers to develop a mind as broad as the vast ocean embracing all streams and all rivers, and a soul seeking truth and believing in virtues, to be innovative and pioneering, and to construct and consolidate our country. The University strives to nurture high-caliber innovators and future leaders with comprehensive development of morality, intelligence, physique, aesthetic beauty, and global competitiveness. Under the cultivation of Zhejiang University, a large number of famous scientists, cultural masters, and elites from all walks of life have emerged, making contributions to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the promotion of exchanges and mutual learning among human civilizations.

After over 125 years' development, Zhejiang University has become a comprehensive research university with distinctive features and great impact at home and abroad. Research at Zhejiang University spans 13 academic disciplines, covering philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, art, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management, and interdisciplinary fields. Of all the 22 disciplines in the list of the Essential Science Indicators (ESI), Zhejiang University has 21 in the world's top 1% and 10 in the top 1‰ (ESI data, May 2022). Among the faculty, there are 60 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering, 15 senior professors of liberal arts, and more than 1500 National Scholars.

Zhejiang University has been committed to recruiting talents across the world, regarding talents as the top priority in the mission to fulfill its responsibility.

Zhejiang University sincerely welcomes talents to join us and create a brilliant future together.  

How to apply

Application Materials:

1. Detailed resume: Resume of continuous study and work from the beginning of undergraduate study to the date of application, published papers and work, achievements in major teaching and scientific research, research projects undertaken, patents and awards, etc.;

2. Three representative works;

3. Research proposal for work at ZJU.

Submit Your Application:

All the materials needed for application should be integrated into a PDF document named “name—department/school—research direction—talent category ”, and sent  to the email of the respective contact of the department/school (see the attached table for details) that you are applying for, copied to the email of zju-hr@zju.edu.cn. Postdoctoral researchers can send directly to the email of the respective contact of the department/school.

Those who pass the preliminary screening will be invited to attend a video interview or come to Hangzhou for further communication. The preliminary screening will be completed within 4 weeks after the application email is sent, and those who do not receive a reply within 6 weeks can be considered as failing the preliminary screening.

Please call or write to us for more information.

Contact Information:

1. The respective contact of the department/school (see the attached table for details)

2. Talent Office of Zhejiang University

Tel.: +86-571-88208829

Email: zju-hr@zju.edu.cn

Contact：Ms. Li

3. Human Resources Department of Zhejiang University

Tel.: +86-571-88981188

Email: rsk@zju.edu.cn

Contact：Ms. Wang