DIRECTOR CONTACT ADDRESS
Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Aret Vooremäe +372 7313821 Fr. R. Kreutzwaldi 5,
Tartu 51014
Institute of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences Toomas Tiirats +372 7313705 Fr. R. Kreutzwaldi 62,
Tartu 51014
Institute of Forestry and Engineering Marek Metslaid +372 7313193 Fr. R. Kreutzwaldi 5,
Tartu 51014
Language Centre Ülle Sihver +372 7313162 Fr. R. Kreutzwaldi 1,
Tartu 51014
Centre for Science Studies Karl Ernst von Baer House Erki Tammiksaar +372 7421514 Veski Str. 4,
Tartu 51005
       
INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTRES      
Centre of Renewable Energy Elis Vollmer +372 7313268  
Natural Collections Märt Rahi +372 7428021  
Centre of Bioeconomy Katrin Kepp +372 7313038  

Current vacancies of academic positions from September 1, 2024

 

Estonian University of Life Sciences announces open competition for academic positions from September 1, 2024.

Commencement date September 1, 2024; closing date for applications April 15, 2024

 

Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

Lecturer of Financial Management 1.0

Lecturer in Horticulture 1.0

Senior Research Fellow in Molecular Ecology 1.0

Research Fellow in Applied Entomology (sustainable plant protection, agroecology and ecosystem services) 1.0

Research Fellow in Processing Technologies of Plant-Origin Raw Material 1.0

 

Institute of Forestry and Engineering

Research Fellow of Forest Ecology 1.0

Lecturer of Electric Machinery, Electric Drives and Programmable Controllers 1.0

Assistant or Associate Professor of Renewable Energies 1.0

Assistant Professor of Hydroinformatics (tenure track) 1.0

Research Fellow of Forest Pathology Data Management 1.0

 

Institute of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences

Chair Professor of Animal Breeding and Biotechnology  1.0

Associate Professor of Population Medicine (tenure-track) 1.0

Lecturer in Equine Clinical Medicine 1.0

Research Fellow in Embryo Technology 0.5

Research Fellow in Genomics of Foodborne Pathogens 1.0

Language Centre

Teacher for Estonian as Second and Foreign Language and Finnish as Foreign Language 0.5

 

Click on the job title to get more detailed information.

 

The positions’ commencement date: September 1, 2024

 

Application documents

To participate in the competition, candidates are required to submit the following documents to the Personnel Department (Fr. R. Kreutzwaldi 1, 51006 Tartu, Estonia) or by e-mail to konkurss@emu.ee by April 15, 2023:

  • an application to the Rector;
  • a copy of the document certifying education and/or academic degree;
  • CV (curriculum vitae) and a structured list of scientific publications of recent ten years, in the Estonian Research Information System (ETIS) standard format (up to ten significant publications from the earlier period may be included at will); information on academic work and in-service training done within five recent years shall be enclosed with the CV;
  • the candidate for the position of Professor shall submit motivation letter reflecting the candidate’s vision about the development of this specific research field and related international cooperation in the university, and the measures that the candidate is going to take for increasing the level of research and teaching in the field (max 1500 words);
  • Researcher ID / ORCID / Google Scholar reference;
  • other relevant materials at the discretion of the applicant.

 

Application documents shall be submitted in Estonian or in English. The candidate for the position of a professor shall submit the application documents in Estonian and English. As an exception, application documents may be submitted in English only, if Estonian is not expected from the position holder. The documents shall be submitted in the written form, either on paper to the Personnel Department (Fr. R. Kreutzwaldi 1, 51006 Tartu, Estonia) or as a digitally signed document by e-mail to konkurss@emu.ee.

In case the applicant has obtained higher education in a foreign country, the University will ask for an assessment from the academic recognition information centre (Estonian ENIC/NARIC Centre) on the conformity of the qualification of the applicant to the qualifications required in the position.

For candidates who apply for the position of Professor for the first time it is mandatory to present a public lecture (venia legendi), in case they have not done it earlier.

Further information: HR Chief Specialist, e-mail konkurss@emu.ee.

 

Useful links:

Academic Staff Positions in Estonian University of Life Sciences

 

Annex 1 Academic Staff Positions

Annex 2 Professor

Annex 3 Lecturer

Annex 4 Research Fellow

Annex 5 Teacher

Annex 6 Scientific Publications

Annex 7 Curriculum Vitae CV

European Framework for Researcher Careers profiles