Applications invited for various positions of Assistant professor and Associate Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Applications invited for various position of Assistant professor and Associate Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati 

 

Name of Position:

1) Associate Professor – Biosciences and Bioengineering

Specializations sought under various posts – All areas of Biosciences and Bioengineering

2) Associate Professor – Chemical Engineering

Specializations sought under various posts – Process Control, Optimization; AI/ML/DS for Chemical Engineering Processes; Advanced Rheology and Multiphase Flow; Advanced Materials and Separation Processes; Clean Energy & Green Technology; Food Engineering.

3) Associate Professor – Chemistry

Specializations sought under various posts – Main Group Chemistry; Machine Learning in Chemistry; Abinitio Molecular Dynamics; Statistical Thermodynamics

4) Associate Professor -Civil Engineering

Specializations sought under various posts –Environmental Engineering, Water Resources Engineering and Management. All areas of Civil Engineering.

5) Associate Professor – Design

Specializations sought under various posts – Visual Communication; New Media; Interaction Design; Industrial Design; Ergonomics; Design Management.

6) Assistant Professor -Humanities and Social Sciences

Specializations sought under various posts –

Archaeology: All areas

Development Studies: Education and Development; Development and Labour Politics; Urban Studies

Economics: Macroeconomics; Financial Economics; Econometrics

English: Modern Indian Literature; Comparative Literature; Critical Theory; Literature of the 19^th and Earlier Centuries; Posthumanism; Ecostudies; Animal Studies; Speculative Realism and Disability Studies

Geography: All areas

History: Labour History; Intellectual History; Gender History

Linguistics: Syntax; Semantics; Computational Linguistics and Neurolinguistics

Philosophy: All areas

Political Science: Political Institutions; Political Methodology; Governance and Policy Studies

Psychology: Cognitive Psychology; Psychology of Health and Well-being; Organizational Behaviour / Organizational Psychology; Social Psychology; Personality;

Sociology: Core Sociological Concepts; Methods and Theories; Urban Sociology; Industrial Sociology; Family, Marriage and Kinship; Caste Class, Citizenship and Nationalism.

7) Associate Professor -Humanities and Social Sciences

Specializations sought under various posts –

Archaeology: All Areas

Development Studies: Education and Development; Development and Labour Policies; Urban Studies

Economics: Public Economics; Applied Game Theory; Industrial Organisation; Macroeconomics; Financial Economics; Econometrics

English: Literature of the English Renaissance; Textual and Bibliographical Studies

Geography: All Areas

History: Social and Intellectual History of Modern South Asia

Linguistics: Cognitive Linguistics; psycholinguistics; Bilingualism; Language and Society

Philosophy: All Areas

Political Science: Comparative Politics; Political Theory; Indian Politics; Political Thought

Psychology: Cognitive Psychology; Psychology of Health and Well-being

Sociology:  Urban Sociology; Sociology of Race

8) Associate Professor – Mechanical Engineering

Specializations sought under various posts – Experimental Turbomachinery, Experimental Combustion and Propulsion, Microfluidics / biomicrofluidics; Experimental Fluid Dynamics. Solid mechanics; Machine design; Vibrations; Acoustics and Fluid-Structure Interaction; Micro/nanoscale mechanics and materials; Non-local elastodynamics; Advanced manufacturing methods; Micro-manufacturing, Industrial Engineering; Optimization, Operations Research; Bio-Mechanics; Biomaterials and tissue Engineering; AI applications in Mechanical Engineering; Any other relevant areas of Mechanical engineering.

9) Associate Professor – Physics

Specializations sought under various posts – Laser and Photonics Area: Fibre- and Integrated-Optics, Ultrafast Optics, Fourier Optics and Imaging, Photonic Materials, Metamaterials, Plasmonics; Nonlinear Optics, Photonics; Quantum Optics and Quantum Information; Laser matter interaction

Condensed Matter Experimental Physics Area: Experimental Soft Condensed Matter; Single Crystal based Quantum Materials; Quantum/Electronic devices

Condensed Matter Theoretical Physics Area: Statistical Physics High Energy Physics Area: Black hole physics; Neutrino Astrophysics; QCD precision studies for collider Phenomenology; Hadron and Nuclear Effective Field Theories, Laser and Photonics Area: Terahertz Plasmonic and Metamaterials.

10) Associate Professor – Electronics and Electrical Engineering

Specializations sought under various posts – VLSI: Digital Circuits; Analog Circuits; RF Circuits; Devices

Power: Machines; Drives; High Voltage; Renewable Energy

All areas of Electronics and Electrical Engineering.

11) Associate Professor -Computer Science and Engineering

Specializations sought under various posts – All Areas of Computer Science and Engineering.

12) Associate Professor – School of Energy Science and Engineering

Specializations sought under various posts – Clean Energy Technologies; Control and Instrumentation for Energy Systems; Advanced Energy Materials; Sustainable Energy Management; Energy Modelling and Efficiency; Energy Planning and Policy.

Flexible Printed Electronics for Energy Applications, AI/ML Based Energy Optimization, Policy and Product Development for Clean Energy Applications.

13) Associate Professor – School of Agro and Rural Technology

Specializations sought under various posts – Agriculture and Development/Rural Development/Sustainable Livelihood/Field Research and Communication; Soil Conservation Engineering/Irrigation Engineering; Hydrology and Hydraulics/Rural Water Supply and Sanitation; Rural spatial planning; Agro-informatics/ Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence in Agro-rural sector; Rural economy; Farm Machinery/Mechanization; Agro and Rural Automation; Agro-business Entrepreneurship and Management; Farm and Rural energy; Rural services; Rural housing; Agricultural Process Engineering; Food and Bio Process Technology. Validation, Mechanization, scale up and commercialization of traditional food & herbal products. Agro eco-technology and natural resource management.

Last Date of Application: 31st January 2023

Please Note:

At least two reference letters from persons well acquainted with the candidate’s work are essential for external applicants for consideration of candidature. Candidates have to ensure that reference letters as above reach the Institute well before the date of the interview for consideration of their application.  The tentative schedule of interviews for different departments is mentioned in the table.

Reference letters from the referees may be sent electronically to rec@iitg.ac.in or to the address given below:

Assistant Registrar (Faculty Affairs)
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
Guwahati – 781 039

Minimum Qualifications:

PhD with first class at the preceding degree or equivalent in the appropriate branch with a very good academic record. 

Experience

Professor (Pay level 14A): A minimum of 10 years of experience of which at least 4 years should be at the level of Associate Professor in IITs, IISc Bangalore, IIMs, NITIE Mumbai and IISERs or at an equivalent level in any such other Indian or foreign institution/institutions of comparable standards.

Associate Professor (Pay level 13A2): A PhD with first class at the preceding degree or equivalent in the appropriate branch with a very good academic record throughout and a minimum of 6 years of teaching/research/industrial experience of which at least 3 years should be at the level of Assistant Professor Gr. I, Senior Scientific Officer/Senior Design Engineer.

Assistant Professor Gr I (Pay level 12): An Assistant Professor with a PhD with first class at the preceding degree or equivalent in the appropriate branch with a very good academic record throughout and at least 3 years teaching/research/industrial experience, excluding however, the experience gained while pursuing PhD.Assistant Professor on Gr II (Pay level 10 & 11): This is not a regular cadre of the Institute. PhD without adequate experience are eligible for the post of Assistant Professor on contract basis.

Minimum requirements of qualification and/or experience may be relaxed in respect of exceptionally outstanding candidates.

Other Information:

1.  Pay and allowances will be as per GOI rules.

2.  Preferably the candidates should be below 35 years of age.

3.  Age relaxation for SC/ST/OBC-NCL/PwD candidates is applicable as per Government of India           norms. Age relaxation in upper age limit in case of SC/ST = 5 years, OBC-NCL = 3 years and PwD = 5 years (10 years for SC/ST and 8 years for OBC candidates). Reserved category candidates must upload their self-certified valid SC/ST/OBC-NCL/EWS/PwD certificate issued by the Competent Government Authority in the prescribed format in support of their claim. Original certificates will be verified during the interview.

4.  Degrees obtained by the candidate must be awarded by a recognized University/Institute.

5.  All Educational qualification certificates including the date of PhD awarded must be uploaded.

6.  All Experience certificates duly signed and sealed by the employer, must be uploaded.

7.  Candidates who worked in Government/Semi­ Government Organizations or Educational Institutions must apply through the proper channel OR provide a No Objection Certificate while applying or at the time of the Interview.

8.  Separate applications must be sent if a candidate is applying for a faculty position in more than one Department/School.

9.  The Institute reserves the right to call for interview only those candidates shortlisted on the basis of their qualifications, experience, and requirements of the concerned Department/School. Mere eligibility will not vest any right on any candidate for being called for an interview. The decision of the Institute in all matters will be final.

10.  The Institute reserves the right to withdraw any or all the posts advertised.

11.  To be familiar with the Institute and for overview, please visit IIT Guwahati website www.iitg.ac.in.

12.  For any correspondence please email to rec@iitg.ac.in or contact:

Faculty Affairs Section, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati Guwahati – 781 0399

13.  Amendments/changes, if any, in the advertisement will be published only on the Institute website. For details Click Here.