Advt. No. RCB/01/2021/Recruitment/HR
RECRUITMENT FOR FACULTY POSITIONS
Regional Centre for Biotechnology (RCB) is an institution of National Importance established through an Act of Indian Parliament by
the Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India under the auspices of UNESCO. The primary focus of RCB is to provide world class
education, training and conduct innovative research at the interface of multiple disciplines to create high quality human resource in
disciplinary and interdisciplinary areas of biotechnology. To this end, the Centre is offering the Master's and Doctoral degree
programs in biotechnology, bioinformatics, and biostatistics, while other degree/diploma programs in niche areas of biotechnology
are under development.
The Centre invites online applications from suitably qualified, dynamic, and result-oriented scientists with flair for teaching, to fill
up the following academic positions on direct recruitment / deputation or contract basis. The candidate should preferably have
demonstrated research experience, and interest to pursue research and teaching in any of the following areas:
(1) Synthetic Biology
& Metabolic Engineering, (2) Fermentation, Scale-up & Downstream Processing, (3) Biocatalysis & Enzyme Engineering, (4)
Metagenomics & Microbiome, (5) Antibody Engineering for Therapeutic Applications, (6) Cancer Biology & Therapy, (7) Infectious
Disease Biology for Developing Prophylactics and Therapeutics, (8) Plant Biotechnology for Crop Improvements, and (9) Big Data
Analytics, Computational Biology & Bioinformatics.
RCB will provide the selected candidates a shared laboratory space with adequate start-up support for setting up the lab. However,
the faculty is required to raise the extramural grants to support their research activities and build the research program. The faculty
is also required to participate in the management of the Centre with responsibilities assigned by the competent authority as per the
requirements. Interested candidates should submit their applications in the prescribed online format available on
http://www.rcb.res.in .
Professor
Level 14A 3 (UR) 55 years for Direct
Recruitment and 60 years
for Deputation/Contract
A PhD in Life Science / allied
discipline and published work
of high quality, actively
engaged in teaching and
research with evidence of
attracting extramural grants.
For Direct Recruitment:
a. A minimum of 10 years of
teaching / research experience.
b. An outstanding professional,
with an established reputation in
the field related to biotechnology
and contribution to educational
innovation, design of new curricula
and courses, and technology–
mediated teaching/ learning
process.
For Deputation:
Officers from the central / state
government or institutes of
national importance or universities
/ university level institution /
research institutions or PSU a)
holding analogous post, or 5-years’
experience in the lower scale. b)
possessing educational
qualification as prescribed for the
post.
Associate
Professor
Level 13A2 2 (UR) 50 years for Direct
Recruitment and 60 years
for Deputation/Contract
A PhD in Life Science / allied
discipline with evidence of
independent research and
publications of high quality,
actively engaged in research
with evidence of attracting
extramural grants.
For Direct Recruitment:
a. A minimum of 6 years of teaching
/ research experience.
b. A
professional with demonstrated
expertise in the field related to
biotechnology and contribution to
educational innovation, design of
new curricula and courses, and
technology–mediated teaching /
learning process.
For Deputation: Officers from the
central / state government or
institutes of national importance or
universities / university level
institution, research institutions or
PSU a) holding analogous post or 5-
years’ experience in the lower
scale. b) possessing educational
qualification as prescribed for the
post.
Assistant
Professor
Level 12 4 (3 UR, 1 OBC) 45 years
for Direct Recruitment
An excellent academic record
with a PhD Degree in Life
Science/allied discipline and
evidence of high-quality
research training in the form
of scientific publications or
patents.
Minimum of 3 years of productive
post-doctoral research work or
equivalent experience as a Sr.
lecturer / Lecturer teaching postgraduate students.
Last date for submission of online
applications: 01.02.2021.
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