<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; ">The French CNRS National institution is offering about 400 full time tenure track research positions in all areas of research including cognitive and computational neuroscience. The deadline for applying is the 7th of January.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><a href="http://gestionoffres.dsi.cnrs.fr/fo/offres/default-en.php">http://gestionoffres.dsi.cnrs.fr/fo/offres/default-en.php</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">The CNRS has been ranked 1st research institution worldwide according to a recent ranking from SCImago (<a href="http://www.scimagojr.com">http://www.scimagojr.com</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; font-family: Cambria; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">).</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">There is no nationality requirement and no requirement to speak French to apply to the CNRS. CNRS researchers are independent researchers that define their own line of research and may supervise many PhD and post-doctoral fellows (although 100% of CNRS researchers' salary is covered by the French government, external funding must be secured to pay salaries for PhD and post-doctoral fellows).</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Applicants are evaluated by national instances composed of senior researchers. These instances hire researchers for all top research department/laboratories in France. The main criteria for selection is excellency. One usually needs to contact a productive hosting department/laboratory before applying (although this is not required, chances of being hired without support from a department/laboratory are slim). All applicants will be invited for interview in Paris in March 2009 (there is no selection before the interview).</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">As with all French administrative positions, CNRS researchers are hired for life (there is a 1-year trial period that nobody has ever failed at). Net salaries range from 2 000 euros (starting) to 4 500 euros per months and can be increased by up to 1 500 per month based on excellency and/or by 250 euros per month for committing to teach 60 hours a year (there is no teaching requirements for CNRS researchers). </div><div><br></div></body></html>