INRAE is recruiting 41 Research Directors (F/M) – Paris, France

Created on January 1, 2020, the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment (INRAE) is a major player in research and innovation. INRAE carries out targeted research and resulted from the merger of INRA and IRSTEA. It is a community of 12,000 people with 272 research, experimental research, and support units located in 18 regional centres throughout France.

Internationally, INRAE is among the top research organisations in the agricultural and food sciences, plant and animal sciences, as well as in ecology and environmental science. It is the world’s leading research organisation specialising in agriculture, food and the environment. INRAE’s goal is to be a key player in the transitions necessary to address major global challenges.

INRAE is recruiting 41 Research Directors researchers (F/M) by open competition and offering permanent position.

Candidates must have a PhD (or equivalent) and have 8 years’ experience in research after PhD, or can justify scientific work judged to be equivalent to these conditions. We expect the candidates to have shown their ability to design and coordinate research work, which is why the selection board is primarily interested in:

• Proven personal work and accomplishments (academic and transfer)
• The ability to design and lead a research project coherent with the thematic orientations of INRAE
• The combination of research activities and knowledge diffusion and promotion (expert assessments supporting public policies, transfer to civil society and/or the economic sector, teaching, etc.)
• Supervision of doctoral students
• Coordination of international and European projects or projects funded by the National Research Agency
• The establishment and coordination of collaborative networks
• Thematic and/or geographic mobility

Each candidate will present a well thought-out, coherent project that falls within INRAE’s research themes. The candidate will detail the objectives and the purpose, the human and material resources likely to be used, as well as any indications regarding the feasibility of this project. They must underline its collective dimension and its forward-looking nature.

> Deadline for applications: August 22, 2023

> Go to the INRAE Jobs website: https://jobs.inrae.fr/en/open-competitions/open-competitions-research-directors-dr2