Assistant Director Position for International Design Institute(IDI)
ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY, CHINA

In view of future new economic paradigms, fast growing international markets and the development of the high-tech-based creative industry, ZJU is building up the International Design Institute (IDI) with focus on the design discipline, integrating knowledge from technology, user and human, interaction and art design as well as business aspects. IDI’s research combines academia / scientific design and the creative industry/new economy and is aiming at global scientific quality with highest industrial / economic relevance (university and industry). There are research cooperations with partner universities worldwide. The combination of design research, research embedded education and new business will boost economy by supporting a strong development of the knowledge-intensive creative industrial sector.

As a general goal IDI will have a leading role in the development of ZJU-design towards a research based scientific discipline.

IDI is building an international faculty team and supporting staff, and is now seeking for an

Assistant Director for Design Science

The assistant director will, under the leadership of the Director IDI, and in cooperation with the Deputy Director for Design Content, work on:

-- Development of design towards a scientific discipline

-- Development of design content in general

-- Design education

Qualifications and Requirements:

Assistant Director for Design Science with as main characteristics:

-- Design Science background (Associate Professor, Ph.D in Design or in a design related discipline)

-- Fluent in English and Chinese

-- Flexible and strategic thinking

-- International focus

--Deep understanding of the design discipline and important and innovative contributions both in design education and design research

Documentation Details:

-- A comprehensive curriculum vitae

-- Copies of advanced degrees and certification of present employment

-- List of publications and other results of scientific design work in the past five years.

-- A letter of interest addressing vision, objectives and goals and applicants future contributions to IDI

-- Three recommendation letters from renowned experts in the field

Closing Date: June 30, 2012

Contact

Mr. Xue or Ms.Liu

Add: Office of International Design Institute, Zhejiang University

    or

Department of Human Resources, Zhejiang University

No.866, Yuhangtang Road, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310058, P.R.China

E-mail:  idi@zju.edu.cn ， tr@zju.edu.cn

Tel: +86-571-88981165,  88981345,  88981390

Fax: +86-571-87951315,  88981976

Content info on research, education and structure:

Director of IDI: schouten@zju.edu.cn ;   Deputy Dir. of IDI : yingft@gmail.com   

Further info: www.ZJU.edu.cn

                    www.IDI.ZJU.edu.cn