NSU announces an open international competition to create 鈥渕irror鈥� laboratories under the supervision of invited scientists majoring in Computational Biology. The competition to create 鈥渕irror鈥� laboratories is held in the frameworks of fulfilling the Program of the Competitiveness Enhancement of NSU among the leading international universities and centers for research and education.
鈥淢irror鈥� laboratories are created in order to establish new scientific schools and develop the areas not thoroughly presented at NSU and the research institutes of Novosibirsk Scientific Center. The laboratories will enhance NSU integration into international scientific environment.
Such laboratories are created by NSU in collaboration with laboratories or foreign research groups already working at research institutes or colleges and universities. Such a laboratory is headed by an invited scientist from a partner laboratory. The scientist may have any citizenship and is to hold a Cand. Sc. degree or Ph.D. The number of research works published by this scientists after 2009 is to exceed 15 in peer-reviewed scientific journals indexed by Scopus and Web of Science. The Head of the laboratory is also supposed to have experience in executive positions and fulfill a number of other requirements. Thus, the Head of the laboratory, under the terms of the contract, is to work in Novosibirsk for at least two months per year and, in addition to doing his research, is to give a course for students. The laboratory staff are also supposed to supervise NSU postgraduates and students. After the second year of functioning the laboratories are to employ at least one postgraduate student and two students of NSU.
All laboratory staff are to mention their NSU affiliation in all their publications.
鈥淢irror鈥� laboratories are supposed to obtain financial support according to the program Top-100 for a long term, until 2020. In addition, the laboratories can and are to attract additional, external sources for their co-funding.
All the applications to create 鈥渕irror鈥� laboratories shall be evaluated by a jury selected by the NSU Rector, which will include representatives of the Department of Natural Sciences, research institutes of Novosibirsk Scientific Center involved, the International Academic Council and the university administration. The scientific part of every project is to go through international expert evaluation, with the rest of the application assessed by the jury itself or the experts appointed. The final decision on establishing the lab will be made by the NSU Rector based on recommendations of the jury and those of the International Academic Council.
The deadline for submitting applications is December 8, 2014. Contest results will be released before January 20, 2015. To submit applications, please use the address mirrorlabs@nsu.ru
