"Join Us at School of Marine Science and Technology, Tianjin University"

Tianjin University

Full Time

Tianjin, China

December 24, 2025

Categories: Faculty - Lecturer - Postdoc - Researcher

More Information

• Address: Tianjin, China
• Qualification: PhD
• Discipline: Science & Engineering
• Department/School Website: https://marine.tju.edu.cn/

Tianjin University, formerly known as Peiyang University, was founded in 1895 as the first modern university in China. After the reform and opening up, Tianjin University was one of the first universities to be constructed under the “Project 211” and “Project 985”, and selected as Type-A university of the “World-Class Universities”. Cultivating enormous talents, Tianjin University has developed as a high-level research university well-known both at home and abroad with outstanding teacher resources, featured disciplines, and first-class quality of education and scientific research.

Keeping abreast of national needs for marine talents and persisting in strengthening moral education and integrated development, the School of Marine Science and Technology (SMST for short), established in April 2014, endeavors to build itself as a first-class school, based on the ideas of “demand oriented, science and engineering integrated, and characteristics distinguished”. SMST attaches great importance to talent construction, devoting to build a platform that encourages outstanding talents to stand out and pursue excellence under a sparkling sky of inspiration.

1. Recruitment fields

Subject areas: Marine Science, Marine Technology, Marine Economic Management

Specific directions:

• Marine exploration technology (positioning, sensor, platform）
• Marine information technology (surveying engineering, data engineering, remote sensing)
• Marine dynamics (data assimilation, forecast and prediction)
• Marine chemistry and chemical engineering (environmental protection, resource utilization)
• Marine management (economic management, strategic research)

2. Recruitment positions

Chair Professor, Outstanding Young Professor, Outstanding Young Associate Researcher, Associate Researcher, Postdoctoral Fellow (Assistant Professor).

3. Application Time

Application throughout the whole year.

4. Responsibilities

（1）Chair Professor
By accurately grasping the development direction of the discipline, the Chair Professor should be able to put forward strategic, forward-looking and creative research ideas, and lead the discipline to catch up with or maintain the international advanced level in the frontier fields.
The Chair Professor should be committed to the improvement of the overall quality and research level of the teaching staff while by any means training and introducing the excellent talents.

（2）Outstanding Young Professor
Holding a high level in teaching, the Outstanding Young Professor should be competent in training high-quality top-notch innovative talents as well as completing various teaching tasks stipulated by the school and the college, with carrying out in-depth teaching research and reform and then achieving outstanding teaching results.
With an independent research direction in line with the development of the discipline, on the one hand, one can lead the discipline to serve the major needs in terms of national economic and social development, and on the other hands, one should be able to lead the discipline to carry out international advanced academic research.
One is supposed to play an important role in such aspects as discipline construction, base construction, talent introduction and international exchanges and cooperation.

（3）Outstanding Young Associate Professor
Holding a high level in teaching, the Outstanding Young Associate Professor should competent in training high-quality top-notch innovative talents as well as completing various teaching tasks stipulated by the school and the college, with carrying out teaching research and reform and then achieving good teaching results.
One should be engaged in high-level scientific research, research direction in line with the development needs of the discipline, outstanding performance in related fields at home and abroad, and has been recognized by peer experts.
One is supposed to play an important role in such aspects as discipline construction, base construction, talent introduction and international exchanges and cooperation.

（4）Associate Researcher
The research direction one is engaging in should be in line with the development needs the discipline requires, while one should have made certain academic achievements in the research field in which a good academic development potential can be shown.
One should actively participate in discipline construction as well as high-level international academic conferences and other forms of international academic exchange activities while actively undertaking and participate in national, provincial and municipal science and technology projects.
In principle, one should have two years or more of postdoctoral working experience.

（5）Postdoctoral Fellow
One should be mainly engaged in basic research, applied research, transformation of scientific and technological achievements and teaching assistance, and other support for talent team, discipline construction and scientific research base development.

5. Compensation and Benefits

A whole package of the competitive salary, welfare treatment, favorable scientific research start-up funds and good working and living conditions will be provided by the joint efforts among the university, the state and Tianjin municipality jointly. Those who requires for settlement shall be settled in accordance with the policy requirements of Tianjin Municipality. The positions of chair professors, outstanding young professors, outstanding young associate professor are employed as institution staff members, while associate researchers, postdoctoral Fellow shall sign the labor contract.

6. Application Instructions:

• (1) The CV
• (2) Representative achievements
• (3) Three reference letters
• (4) Future research plans

You may kindly collate the total materials listed above into a single PDF document with the file name “SMST+ Position+ Name”, and send it to the email chenmeizhu@tju.edu.cn or hyws@tju.edu.cn.

7. Contact Information

• Contacts：Ms. Chen, Ms. Li
• Telephone：+86-022-87370655
• E-mail: chenmeizhu@tju.edu.cn and cc hyws@tju.edu.cn
• School’s Official Website: http://marine.tju.edu.cn/

About the School

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This recruitment information above is long-term valid.