Professor Xu Jingfen's research team at Hunan University is recruiting full-time postdoctoral researchers.

Due to the needs of a scientific research project, Professor Xu Jingfen's research group from the School of Foreign Languages at Hunan University is recruiting postdoctoral researchers. We sincerely invite outstanding young scholars from home and abroad to join us!

Job Requirements

1. Meet the professional requirements of the applicant: majoring in speech pathology, cognitive neuroscience, cognitive psychology, language disorders, communication disorders, or information science related fields;

2. Bonus points for applicants: Familiarity with EEG operation, brain imaging research, or software development;

3. It usually takes three years to obtain a doctoral degree, and the age is generally no more than 35 years old.

4. Possess good research potential, academic ethics and comprehensive abilities;

5. Engage in full-time research work at school.

Compensation and benefits

Special Funding Category A: The school allocates personnel expenses at a standard of 300,000 yuan per year, plus matching funds from the School of Foreign Languages and a monthly housing subsidy of 1,800 yuan.

Key Funding Category B: The school allocates personnel expenses at a standard of 200,000 yuan per year, plus matching funds from the School of Foreign Languages and a monthly housing subsidy of 1,800 yuan.

For the C category of international joint training programs: The university allocates personnel funds at a standard of 200,000 yuan per year (including state subsidies) + funds from the School of Foreign Languages + funds from the foreign research group.

D General Funding Category: The school allocates personnel expenses at a standard of 120,000 yuan per year + additional funds from the School of Foreign Languages + a monthly housing allowance of 1,800 yuan.

Support and guarantee

Be eligible for talent subsidies in Changsha City as per policy (including living allowances and housing purchase subsidies ranging from 130,000 to 200,000 yuan).

During the period of being at the station, the school will calculate the working years. For postdoctoral researchers without previous work experience before entering the station, their working time will be calculated from the date of entering the station.

3. Postdoctoral researchers are immediately rated as assistant researchers upon entry, and the quota for recognizing associate researchers during the postdoctoral period is listed separately.

4. The university has specially established the "Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow" award. Those who are selected can apply for a teaching and research position with a permanent staff status after completing their postdoctoral research.

5. Enjoy the same rewards for scientific research achievements as the teachers of this school. During the period of being in the station, one can settle down in this school, and their chilPostdocen can enjoy the same benefits for nursery and school enrollment as the chilPostdocen of the school's staff.

6. Introduction to Team-related Research.

Professor Xu Jingfen is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Foreign Languages, Hunan University. She has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Linguistics, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, the Institute of Child Health, University College London, UK, the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Department of Psychology, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, and the Laboratory of Cognitive Psychology, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. She has also been a visiting scholar at the Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland, College Park, USA. She serves as a reviewer for domestic and international journals and dissertations, and is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. She leads the Language Pathology and Developmental Neuroscience Laboratory at Hunan University and has been the principal investigator of several research projects funded by the National Social Science Foundation of China, the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province, and the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan. Her research has been published in SSCI, SCI, IEEE, and other high-level journals and books. For more information about the related laboratory, please visit: http://grjl.hnu.edu.cn/p/8AD9E2ADB84955F9F069F079986AB1C7

7. Team support guarantee.

Successful applicants for the postdoctoral researcher position will join the research team, enjoy the aforementioned allowances, receive academic guidance from the laboratory director, utilize relevant resources and equipment in the laboratory, delve into research topics, apply for scientific research projects, conduct experiments, and publish academic papers. They will also participate in group meetings with doctoral and master's students as well as undergraduates in the laboratory to engage in scientific research discussions.

Introduction to Hunan University

Hunan University, founded in 1903,

Hunan University is located in Changsha, a famous historical and cultural city in China. Its campus is situated on the banks of the Xiangjiang River and at the foot of Yuelu Mountain. The university's educational roots can be traced back to the establishment of Yuelu Academy in 976 AD. With a long history and a fine educational tradition, it enjoys the reputation of being a "thousand-year-old institution of learning and a century-old prestigious university". It is a key national university directly under the Ministry of Education, a key university under the "211 Project" and the "985 Project", and a university included in the "Double First-Class" initiative. The university has a Graduate School and 27 colleges, covering 11 disciplines including philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, management, medicine, and art.

Get to Know Changsha

The capital of Hunan Province, selected as one of the first batch of historical and cultural cities in China, is a beautiful mountain and water city with green mountains as its screen and clear rivers flowing through it.

Form seven trillion-yuan industrial clusters in construction machinery, food, new materials, electronic information, cultural creativity, tourism, automobiles and auto parts.

In 2020, Hunan Province's GDP ranked 9th in the country. Changsha's economic aggregate exceeded one trillion yuan. The per capita disposable income of urban and rural residents remained the highest among central cities. The average price of commercial residential properties was the lowest among provincial capital cities in central China. In 2021, the average price of new houses was 9,843 yuan per square meter.

Located at the intersection of the Beijing-Guangzhou, Shanghai-Kunming and Chongqing-Changsha-Xiamen high-speed railways in the shape of a "米" (Chinese character for "rice"), it has direct high-speed rail connections to 23 provincial capitals and municipalities. It integrates metro, maglev, urban rail, and air-rail intermodal transportation, forming a comprehensive transportation hub of national significance.

N has been rated as "China's Happiest City" for thirteen consecutive years.