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Hitachi Professorship of Electron Device Physics: Notice

The Board of Electors to the Hitachi Professorship of Electron Device Physics invite applications for this newly established Professorship from candidates whose research falls within this general field. It is hoped that the successful candidate will take up the appointment as soon as possible.

This Professorship is supported by Hitachi Limited, as part of the collaborative arrangement, which the Professor will be expected to continue, between the Cavendish Laboratory and its Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory (HCL), an embedded laboratory. Opportunities exist for significant expansion into new themes in the general areas of electron device physics, nanoelectronics, and spintronics. The Professor will also be expected to support other initiatives in areas of nanotechnology, biological physics, medical physics, and associated theoretical work, playing a full role in all aspects of research and teaching of physics.

The appointment will be subject to the Statutes and Ordinances of the University.

Further information may be obtained from the Academic Secretary, University Offices, The Old Schools, Cambridge, CB2 1TT (e-mail ibise@admin.cam.ac.uk), to whom a letter of application, marked 'Confidential', including details of current and future research plans, a curriculum vitae and a publications list should be sent, together with the names of two referees, so as to reach him not later than Friday, 31 October 2003.

Informal enquiries may be made to Professor M. S. Longair, Department of Physics (tel. 01223 337429, e-mail msl@mrao.cam.ac.uk). Information concerning the Department and its teaching and research programmes may be obtained from its website (http://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/).

The University is committed to equality of opportunity.


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Cambridge University Reporter, 1 October 2003
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