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Postdoctoral Fellow/ Research Associate/ Research Assistant – Animal Models of Myopia

 

Job post: Postdoctoral Fellow (CEVR-R063) / Research Associate (CEVR-R064) / Research Assistant (CEVR-R065)

[Appointment period: contract of 12 months to max 36 months]

 

Organization Background:

Centre for Eye and Vision Research Limited (CEVR) is a research collaboration between The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and the University of Waterloo (UW) in Canada. It will be located at the Hong Kong Science Park, New Territories, Hong Kong. It will be the first global hub performing ground-breaking research in five key areas – myopia and eye growth, ocular drug discovery and delivery, vision enhancement, tear film and ocular surface and advanced optometric technology. The mission of CEVR is to generate technologies to prevent vision loss in the aging population and preserve healthy vision.

 

Required Skills and Job Duty:

The appointees will assist the project leaders in the research project : “Impact of optical defocus, aberration and light exposure on myopia.”  The tasks include project development, study design/protocol, ethics application, experimental setup, data collection, data analysis and preparation of manuscript.

 

Qualification:

  • Applicants for the Postdoctoral Fellow posts should have a doctoral degree or an equivalent qualification in Vision Science, Psychology, Neuroscience, Optometry, Ophthalmology, Applied Physics, Optics,
  • Chemical Technology, Health Technology, Bioinformatics, Rehabilitation or other related disciplines.
  • Applicants for the Research Associate posts should have a master’s degree or an equivalent qualification in one of the said disciplines.
  • Applicants for the Research Assistant posts should have an honors degree or an equivalent qualification in one of the said disciplines.

 

The appointees shall be working in Hong Kong. Overseas graduate is welcome to apply, the qualification awarding institution should be the top 100 institutions for STEM-related subjects in QS/Shanghai Jiao Tong Uni/Times Higher Education world university rankings. (details here)

 

Enquiry:

Applicants may contact Dr. Dennis Tse (dennis.tse at polyu.edu.hk) of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University or Prof. Melanie Campbell (mcampbel at uwaterloo.ca) of the University of Waterloo for enquiry.

 

Remuneration

A highly competitive remuneration package will be offered. Applicants are invited to send the application form (download here), CV and expected salary to the email career at cevr.hk.

 

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