Faculty positions available at Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea, invites applications for full-time, open rank, and tenure track positions in different disciplines such as Mining, Geology, Petroleum Engineering, GIS, Renewable energy, Geochemistry, Mineral processing, Geophysics, Mineral economics, Engineering geology, and other energy related areas.
    The department seeks international scholars with outstanding research and teaching credentials who will play an integral role in the development, growth, and diversity of their respective programs.
     The Times of London ranked SNU 51st among the world’s best universities in 2007. SNU aims to become one of the top ten universities by 2025. SNU is comprised of 16 colleges, one graduate school of arts and sciences, and six professional graduate schools, with a total enrollment of 27,973 students. The full-time faculty of 1,975 professors offers more than 83 undergraduate and 98 graduate programs including 27 interdisciplinary programs. SNU also includes 65 research institutes and 47 national government supported research centers. Its campus, well designed and serviced, is one of the world’s most beautiful throughout all four seasons.
    The new positions are being created by authorization of the Ministry of Education and Human Resource Development for the purpose of enabling SNU to attain the goal of becoming one of the top institutions of higher education in the world. SNU is therefore committed to recruiting qualified international scholars who can contribute, through their research, teaching, and service, to the diversity and excellence of the academic community. SNU is responsive to the needs of dual career couples.

Requirements
   Each candidate should hold a Ph.D. degree and will be expected to lecture in English. Excellent competence in oral and written English is essential for each position, and native-level competence will be regarded as highly desirable in assessing applications.

Benefits
-a rewarding and stable career structure for productive faculty members
-a twelve-month based salary
-a comprehensive medical insurance program
-on campus housing at substantially below market cost
-one semester paid research leave out of every seven semesters
-intra-university research grants
-reimbursement of relocation expenses
-the opportunity to work with dedicated student assistants of extremely high ability

Pre-inquiry for application
   Interested candidates should send a curriculum vitae including list of publications to Prof. H.D. PARK (hpark@snu.ac.kr) by 22 March 2008.