Luxembourg university to recruit research vice-president

The University of Luxembourg is looking for a Vice-President Research to oversee all research-related activities across all three of its academic faculties.

The establishment, which has a campus in Kirchberg, Limpertsberg and Belval, has a faculty of science, technology and communication, faculty of law, economics and finance and a faculty of language and literature, humanities, arts and education.

It also has three interdisciplinary centres – for security, reliability and trust (SnT), for systems biomedicine (LCSB) and for contemporary and digital history (C2 DH).

Able to work in English, French and/or German the Vice-President Research recruited into the role will be a "researcher of international stature" who can build and maintain relationships with industry players and the government and bring a "performance-oriented working style and innovative and visionary thinking with regard to strategic planning activities".

The University of Luxembourg is the country's only public university and employs 850 professional experts and 250 professors. Its four-year plan between 2014 and 2017 focused on five research priorities, including educational sciences and the Luxembourg School of Finance.

(Heledd Pritchard, heledd.pritchard@wort.lu, +352 49 93 459)