Guests lecturer

Guest lecturers

Are you a photonics expert? Make an impact by joining the consortium faculty and get the unique opportunity to meet our students, the photonics leaders of tomorrow, and share knowledge and good practices with the largest photonics science community.

The consortium offers each year guest lecturer’s funding opportunity with competitive remuneration. Travel and accommodation costs of the visiting scholar are funded by the PSRS consortium.

Applicants are requested to submit by email @ master.PSRS@univ-st-etienne.fr:

(a)    a detailed CV including full contact information, a short professional profile, current employment status, academic and professional background (positions and projects) and teaching track-record and professional references;
(b)    a cover letter laying out what added-value the proposal could bring to the Programme, and notably with respect to student-centered teaching/lecturing, research activities and academic/professional networking in case of the mission includes a teaching activity and/or the added-value the suggested mission will bring to the Programme cycle management of Consortium development, and
(c)    In the case the applicant apply to a teaching activity, a unit proposal, including the unit title, the Learning Outcomes (prerequisites, learning objectives and how these objectives fit into the sequence of the PSRS Programme); a unit syllabus (including unit duration, themes covered by the units, unit sequence, cases-studies, learning materials, modes of learning, suggested readings…), desired teaching campus (France St Etienne, France Paris, Italy or Finland) and suggested teaching dates.
Scholars are selected annually by the Academic and Management Board on the basis of a short-list constituted of any applications complying with the eligibility criteria and prepared by the Coordinating Institution.

Any applicant must be informed by the Coordinating Institution of the outcome of their application and the list of successful applicants must be published on the Programme website.

Applicants wishing to appeal on the Academic and Management Board decision shall be offered the opportunity to draft an appeal letter that must be transmitted to the Quality Assurance Board within a month following the publication of the selection outcome. The Quality Assurance Board may decide or not to ask the Academic and Management Board to reassess and reconsider the application, and to do so before beginning of the intake. The applicant will be informed of the appeal decision by a written instrument at the very least before the said Programme’s intake starts.

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