Tenure Track Call 2017
A new Tenure Track position in Bioinformatics/Computational Biology is now open
Procedures and results of 2015 international tenure-track search at IIT
1. FALL 2014
Planning of search areas, recruitment of international search committees:
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Valerio Orlando | KAUST, Saudi Arabia |
| Paola Arlotta | Harvard University, USA |
| Piero Carninci | Riken, Japan |
| Robert Datta | Harvard University, USA |
| John Assad | IIT, Italy |
| Stefano Gustincich | IIT, Italy |
| Stefano Panzeri | IIT, Italy |
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Francesco Stellacci | EPFL, Switzerland |
| Ray Phaneuf | University of Maryland, USA |
| Roberto Cingolani | IIT, Italy |
| Silvia Giordani | IIT, Italy |
| Angelo Bifone | IIT, Italy |
| Athanassia Athanassiou | IIT, Italy |
| Liberato Manna | IIT, Italy |
| Vittorio Pellegrini | IIT, Italy |
| Teresa Pellegrino | IIT, Italy |
| Francesco De Angelis | IIT, Italy |
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Michele Vendruscolo | University of Cambridge, UK |
| Wanda Andreoni | EPFL, Switzerland |
| Roberto Cingolani | IIT, Italy |
| Andrea Cavalli | IIT, Italy |
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Alin Albu-Schäffer | DRL, Germany |
| Gaurav S. Sukhatme | University of Southern California, USA |
| Henrik I. Christensen | Georgia Tech, USA |
| Heinrich Bülthoff | Max Planck Institute, Germany |
| Oussama Khatib | Stanford University, USA |
| Darwin Caldwell | IIT, Italy |
| Giorgio Metta | IIT, Italy |
| Nikos Tsagarakis | IIT, Italy |
2. JANUARY 15, 2015
Call opens with announcement on IIT home page and ads published in Nature Jobs, Science Careers, Cell Careers. The advertising campaign also includes direct emailings to more than 500 scientists worldwide in research areas relevant to the search areas.
Official Announcement Advertising Poster
3. MARCH 31, 2015
Call closes with a total of 371 applicants, each applicant choosing multiple areas.
Applications are divided into the following areas:
- Robotics and AI (55 applications)
- Energy (56 applications)
- Bioinformatics (49 applications)
- Computational multi-scale modelling of materials (65 applications)
- Nanotechnology/materials science (190 applications)
- Molecular biology (98 applications)
Applications are immediately distributed to Search Committee members for review and initial scoring and rank-ordering.
4. APRIL 2015
Search Committees meet by international videoconference to choose shortlisted candidates, who are invited to IIT for interviews: 6 candidates in Molecular Biology & Bioinformatics, 6 in Nanotechnology and Materials Science (Energy-oriented), 5 in Nanotechnology and Materials Science, 8 in Robotics and AI, and 4 in Computational multi-scale modelling of materials.
5. MAY-JUNE 2015
Shortlisted candidates are interviewed at IIT Genova with international Evaluation Committees. Interviews includes public seminars by each candidate, meetings with IIT scientists, and “chalk talk” with entire Evaluation Committee. Evaluation Committees meet immediately after to make recommendations for winning candidates.
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Valerio Orlando | KAUST, Saudi Arabia |
| Piero Carninci | Riken, Japan |
| Robert Datta | Harvard University, USA |
| John Assad | IIT, Italy |
| Stefano Gustincich | IIT, Italy |
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Francesco Stellacci | EPFL, Switzerland |
| Ray Phaneuf | University of Maryland, USA |
| Luisa Torsi | University of Bari, Italy |
| Teresa Pellegrino | IIT, Italy |
| Francesco De Angelis | IIT, Italy |
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Francesco Stellacci | EPFL, Switzerland |
| Ray Phaneuf | University of Maryland, USA |
| Luisa Torsi | University of Bari, Italy |
| Athanassia Athanassiou | IIT, Italy |
| Liberato Manna | IIT, Italy |
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Michele Vendruscolo | University of Cambridge, UK |
| Wanda Andreoni | EPFL, Switzerland |
| Andrea Cavalli | IIT, Italy |
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Alin Albu-Schäffer | DRL, Germany |
| Gaurav S. Sukhatme | University of Southern California, USA |
| Henrik I. Christensen | Georgia Tech, USA |
| Heinrich Bülthoff | Max Planck Institute, Germany |
| Darwin Caldwell* | IIT, Italy |
| Giorgio Metta | IIT, Italy |
*D. Caldwell was recused from interview, discussion and evaluation of A. Ajoudani
6. MAY-JUNE 2015
Based on recommendations of Evaluation committees, winning candidates are chosen by a representative of IIT external Scientific Technical Committee (STC), in conjunction with IIT Scientific Director. Winning candidates are informed and start-up packages are negotiated. The STC oversees the entire procedure.
7. MAY-JUNE 2015
Seven candidates were successful out of the total shortlisted candidates and four of them accepted IIT’s offer: