iChEM graduate students recruitment
Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, abbreviated to as “iChEM”, was established jointly by Xiamen University (XMU), Fudan University (FDU), the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), and the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), under the framework of the “Collaborative Innovation Program” or “2011-Program” of the Ministry of Education (MOE) and Ministry of Finance of China (MOF). The “2011-Program”, launched in 2011 after the well-known National “211-Program” and “985-Program”. The purposes of the iChEM are to take full advantages of the strength in chemistry and materials sciences of the four core institutions to perform energy materials-oriented cutting-edge chemistry research and meanwhile to train young generation of research excellence.
In order to better carry out the requirements initiated by the "2011-Program", the iChEM plans to continue to select the outstanding students with prominent innovative and cooperative consciousness from the graduate student candidates already enrolled into the graduate school of the four core members of the iChEM. Those selected graduate students will enter the “iChEM Graduate Student Training Program” upon approval by the selection committee after selection process of application screening, interviews, and determination of final candidates. We will provide a platform for sharing equipment, information, and high-quality research resources of the involved institutions of the center for the successful candidates to make outstanding academic achievements. Selection of joint advisors from the four core member institutions are encouraged for the successful candidates.
1. Applicants
The candidates will be selected from those excellent applicants who have been already enrolled into the graduate school of the four core member institutions. For those applicants about graduating within one year, they shall submit a letter of commitment indicating that they voluntarily apply to prolong their education for one year.
2. Requirements
The candidates shall be sound in body and mind, and have excellent professional knowledge, active academic thoughts, strong innovative capability and originality with outstanding research achievement, development potential and research background that comply with the research goals of our center.
3. Selection Mode
The selection adopts the mode of mentor recommendation: the outstanding candidates recommended by the mentors from the four core member institutions can apply voluntarily.
4. Application Materials
(1) Recommendation letters from the mentor of the applicants (mentor signature required and sealed in envelope).
(2) Personal statement: a statement within 3,000 characters that will best describe individual traits, scientific research quality, achievement highlight and self-introduction to meet the iChEM requirement, as well as a signature on the statement.
(3) Transcript during graduate study includes Master and Ph.D period.
(4) Copies of scientific research achievements and honor certificates.
5. Evaluation
The iChEM established an annual performance appraisal system for all the employees, including the graduate students based on the principle of collaboration and innovation. The qualified candidates in the annual assessment will automatically be renewed for one more year; while the unqualified candidates will be removed from the “iChEM Graduate Student Training Program”.
The iChEM will provide a scholarship of RMB20,000-50,000 for each qualified candidate who has carried out substantial collaboration among the four core members and made progress on it. In addition to the original scholarship and student subsidy system of each member institution, the scholarship is an extra award offered and paid by Xiamen University in a full amount before the iChEM is affirmed by the MOE.
6. Certificate
(1) The iChEM will issue "iChEM Graduate Student Certificate" for the selected candidates;
(2) The iChEM will issue "iChEM Outstanding Graduate Student Certificate" for the outstanding qualified candidates in the annual assessment.
7. Timeline
Date | Activities |
March 5 | Recruitment postings |
March 14 | Application materials submission |
March 17-18 | Candidate selection by the four core members（at most 6 candidates recommended by each member institution） |
March 19-20 | Selected candidate application materials submission to iChEM Human Resources Office. |
March 21-22 (weekend) | Video-cast interview by the four core members |
March 23 | Selected candidate list postings in public for 3 days |
March 26 | Final candidate announcement |
We look forward to working with the outstanding young research pioneers home or abroad. If interested, please submit your application materials in a form of printed paper to the Human Resources Offices of the four core member institutions as the follows:
Xiamen University: Ms. Huang, Tel: 0592-2183372, E-mail: chemyjs@xmu.edu.cn
Fudan :University: E-mail: mingu@fudan.edu.cn
University of Science and Technology of China: E-mail: ligsh@ustc.edu.cn
Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences: E-mail: yuhao@dicp.ac.cn
