Carrefour de l'actualité

Canada 150 Research Chairs: Pursue a Career at Polytechnique Montreal

July 17, 2017 - Source : NEWS

Polytechnique Montréal invites top-tier researchers who currently work and reside outside Canada to send it expressions of interest in applying for the Canada 150 Research Chairs Program (the Program).

Please follow this link for further information on the Program, its requirements and the application procedure. It should be noted that the deadlines are very short.

The Program, offered by the federal government, enables the establishment of Research Chairs valued at $350,000 or $1,000,000 annually for 7 years.

Polytechnique Montréal wishes to receive researchers’ applications leading to a high-level career in the following fields:

  • Aerospace and transportation
  • Multimedia, data processing and telecommunications
  • Life science and engineering
  • Advanced materials and nanotechnologies
  • Systems science and engineering
  • Energy, environment and sustainable development

Polytechnique Montréal is one Canada’s leading engineering teaching and research institutions, with an annual research budget of $70 million, 17 industrial chairs (including 13 NSERC chairs), one Canada Excellence Research Chair and 25 Canada Research Chairs. Its researchers have access to more than $250 million worth of research infrastructures.

For more information, please visit the websites of Polytechnique’s Human Resources department or Research, Innovation and International Affairs department.

Canada 150 Research Chairs

 

Suggested Reading

December 16, 2020
NEWS

Three Polytechnique professors awarded Canada Research Chairs, in addition to federal and provincial government funding

October 15, 2018
NEWS

Four Canada Research Chairs at Polytechnique Montréal are advancing knowledge in several areas