We believe collaboration is the key to achieve fresh thinking and better results.

At MIA we strive for new developments and applications to improve health and well being during the ageing process. To do so we seek to attract the best, most renowned and resourcefulness talent, providing them with the best conditions for innovation - cutting-edge technology and a culture that stimulates multidisciplinary work.

Are you Interested in becoming part of this team o future pioneers? See more information about our carrer openings below.

We seek to recruit:

1 Senior Scientific Director

2 Group Leaders (junior, midcareer or senior level)

The newly founded Research Institute of Excellence, MIA-Portugal will hire a Senior Scientific Director and 8 new research groups focused on different aspects of the basic research on Ageing or related mechanisms, and work in a new building that hosts MIA-Portugal laboratories, close to the University Hospital and the Faculty of Medicine and physically linked to imaging facilities, as well as animal facilities.

We offer a possibility to a tenured track position at the University of Coimbra and an interesting start-up packages and state-of-the-art laboratories and infrastructures focusing on any topic related to the Molecular and Biological Basis of Ageing.

The Senior Scientific Director should have an outstanding scientific performance, coordination experience, international networks.

For the Group Leaders the start-up packages include 3 post-docs and one technician to constitute each team. We expect candidates to develop a competitive, independent research program in his/her respective field, local collaboration and integration into the Coimbra biomedical community. Applicants should hold a PhD or MD/PhD degree, with a record of outstanding research potential.

Candidates should submit a pre-application (1^st round) until the April 25, 2020 by sending to miacareers@uc.pt the following documents/information:

• a complete CV
• a description of research interests and relevance to the field of ageing (achievements and projects, max 5 pages)
• name and contact of three references who will be independently asked to provide support letters.

The 2^nd round application was postponed, and will be announced soon..

MIA-Portugal is a newly founded Research Institute of Excellence, funded by the European Commission, University of Coimbra and local government, in partnership with Univ. Newcastle, Univ. Medical Center Groningen, Mayo Clinics and Univ. Copenhagen.

MIA-Portugal is imbedded at the University of Coimbra integrated in an exciting international environment bridging the largest and most productive research Center in Neuroscience and Cell Biology in Portugal (CNC) and the University Hospital of Coimbra (CHUC, the largest in the country), tightly linked to two European-awarded biotech parks (IPN and BIOCANT), forming the largest hub of biomedical research in Portugal,

For additional information, please contact miacareers@uc.pt

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