tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4989966954446423670.post8859873205675243285..comments2024-03-02T00:44:55.128-08:00Comments on Pleiotropy: Professorship in FranceBjørn Østmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08859177313382114917noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4989966954446423670.post-4743230424106725252013-03-01T02:17:43.775-08:002013-03-01T02:17:43.775-08:00Incommensurability. Why should it be equivalent to...Incommensurability. Why should it be equivalent to anything you know? Pierre Duhem, for example, assumed the position of Maitre de Conférences at the Faculté des Sciences at Lille in October 1887, according to the Stanford Enzyclopedia of Philosophy, yet he obtained his doctorate only in 1888 (after a his first thesis was rejected for political reasons). Joachim Dagghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00985198925581721229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4989966954446423670.post-34244448118681631462013-02-25T13:42:11.887-08:002013-02-25T13:42:11.887-08:00So this position might be equivalent to a tenured ...So this position might be equivalent to a tenured postdoc?Bjørn Østmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08859177313382114917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4989966954446423670.post-64709579231045428252013-02-25T00:17:21.930-08:002013-02-25T00:17:21.930-08:00Maître de conférences can mean lecturer, tutor, in...Maître de conférences can mean lecturer, tutor, instructor, as well as associate professor. The academic hierarchy is just not commensurable (easily translatable) between France and America (or Germany). You will be eligible for that position, if you have a doctoral title (no additional post-docs required though maybe of advantage). <br /><br />Due to its history, France has the CNRS(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique = National Center for Scientific Research) as a parallel world to the universities (like the Max-Planck Gesellschaft in Germany but much bigger). <br /><br />I remember from a visit, that the CNRS has more funding and a more secure positions (tenure) for staff below the professor position than German universities. Students I'd have regarded as post-docs already had tenure after a probation period of 2 years (depending probably on one's publications).Joachim Dagghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00985198925581721229noreply@blogger.com