Hello!
I am from Venezuela and I am a chemical engineer. My work experience has been in teaching education in thermodynamics and math for engineers. I am planning to move to Finland because its education system and also the education that I'd like to give to my children.
My participation in this forum is starting to get contact with you people in there and get some information about the next steps that I need to do in order to start my moving process.
I'll appreciate all your help and here a friend!
Kind regards,
Maria Ines Preciado
Valencia- Venezuela
How to get a job as a professor in Helsinki?
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marinespreciado
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Re: How to get a job as a professor in Helsinki?
You mean professor as in academic research or as teacher in a technical collage?How to get a job as a professor in Helsinki?
As a researcher: how many publications you have, what is your standing in the international community, ....?
As a teacher: do you speak Finnish?
Re: How to get a job as a professor in Helsinki?
Easy enough, you just need to become an established international expert in your field, with a PhD from a good university and department. Normally, that would mean you've been running a lab at your own university, with at least several grad students and maybe a post-doc or two, and have a list of journal publications as long as your arm. Some of those should be in top journals; Nature or Science wouldn't hurt. So you've probably been working for between 8 and 15 years post-PhD, and doing very well, and have made a name for yourself as a top researcher in your speciality. Then you contact your colleagues, who should at least know you by reputation if not personally, at the appropriate department in Helsinki, and tell them you want to apply for an Academy Professorship, which are 5 year contracts, on very nice terms, and bring a lot of prestige to a department if they can get them. Since you have the aforementioned publication list, you might get the Professorship, and then you're good to move to Finland, probably you'll be able to sort something else out at the end of the 5 years if you want to stay.
If you above doesn't sound like you, then you won't be able to get a job as a professor in Helsinki.
If you above doesn't sound like you, then you won't be able to get a job as a professor in Helsinki.