Tenure-track Junior Professor Chairs (CPJ) 2025 Campaign
Junior Professor Chairs (CPJ - chaire de professeur junior in French) (Decree no. 2021-1710 of 17 December 2021) is a new way of recruiting for research and teaching projects, similar to tenure-track positions.
This recruitment campaign, based on a research and teaching project, is aimed at teaching and research staff with a PhD or equivalent.
Below are the corresponding post descriptions:
Université Paris-Saclay Junior Professor Chairs (CPJ)
| CPJ Title | Laboratory | Constituent faculties and institutes/Component institutions | Other supervisory bodies | Lab Director | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heritage Sciences | Institute of Social Sciences in Politics (ISP) | ENS / UPSaclay | CNRS (+ Univ Nanterre) | Olivier Le Noé | umr7220_direction@cnrs.fr |
| Multi-omics cellular atlases of brain development | Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience (NeuroPSI) | Faculty of Sciences / UPSaclay | CNRS | François Rouyer | francois.rouyer@universite-paris-saclay.fr |
| Global and societal challenges of submarine volcanism | Paris-Saclay Geosciences Laboratory (GEOPS) | Faculty of Sciences / UPSaclay | CNRS | Christophe colin | christophe.colin@universite-paris-saclay.fr |
| Premature ageing in long-term cancer survivors | Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP) | Faculty of Medicine / UPSaclay | INSERM UVSQ | Bruno Falissard | direction.cesp@inserm.fr bruno.falissard@universite-paris-saclay.fr |
| Advanced therapy: PROTACs for Targeting "Undruggable" Proteins | Biomolecules: Design, Isolation, Synthesis (BioCIS) | Faculty of Pharmacy / UPSaclay | CNRS (+CY Cergy Paris Univ) | Mouad Alami | mouad.alami@universite-paris-saclay.fr |
| Low-Impact Quantum Materials and Technologies (MQTS) | Structures, Properties and Modelling of Solids (SPMS) | CentraleSupelec / UPSaclay | CNRS | Hichem Dammak | hichem.dammak@centralesupelec.fr |
| Biology and mathematics | Laboratory of Biology and Applied Pharmacology (LBPA)/Centre Borelli | ENS Paris-Saclay / UPSaclay | CNRS | Eric Deprez Nicolas Vayatis | |
| Health - Metabolomics, microbiome, exposome, epidemiology, biostatistics | |||||
| Quantum computing - quantum programming languages - formal models, computations and embodiment of the "quanticity" of the physical world - hardware development | |||||
| Physics-inspired Graph Neural Networks |
INRIA – the French National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology - Junior Professor Chairs (CPJ)
| CPJ Title | Laboratory | Constituent faculties and institutes/Component institutions | Other supervisory bodies | Lab Director | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Computational Cognitive Neurosciences at Saclay | NeuroSpin | MIND project team (CEA Saclay) | Philippe Ciuciu | philippe.ciuciu@cea.fr |
CNRS – The French National Centre for Scientific Research - Junior Professor Chairs (CPJ)
| ACRONYM | THEME | LABORATORY | CONSTITUENT FACULTIES AND INSTITUTES | SUPERVISORY BODIES | LAB DIRECTOR | Lab Director email |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GLYCOCHEM | Methodology and synthesis, glycochemistry, complex polysaccharides, total synthesis, glycomimetics | Orsay Institute of Molecular Chemistry and Materials (ICMMO) | Faculty of Sciences / UPSaclay | UPSaclay CNRS | David Aitken | david.aitken@universite-paris-saclay.fr |
| TARGET | Therapeutic target, yeast, chemical library screening, chemogenomics, chemoproteomics | Institute of the Chemistry of Natural Substances (ICSN) | Faculty of Sciences / UPSaclay | UPSaclay CNRS | Boris Vauzeilles | boris.vauzeilles@universite-paris-saclay.fr |
| PRECISION | Ultra-cold atoms and molecules, trapped ions, high-resolution spectroscopy, atom interferometry, quantum control, Standard Model testing | Aimé Cotton Laboratory (LAC) | Faculty of Sciences / UPSaclay | UPSaclay CNRS | Olivier Dulieu | olivier.dulieu@universite-paris-saclay.fr |
| MecaFluTE | Theoretical physics, experimental physics, fluid mechanics, environmental transition | Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory (SPEC) | Without constituent faculties and institutes | French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) CNRS | Patrice Roche | patrice.roche@cea.fr |
| SPIN | Spintronics, multifunctional and hybrid heterostructures, spin-orbitronics, magnonics, opto-spintronics, quantum spintronics, topological spin textures, antiferromagnetic spintronics, magnon-phonon interconversion | Albert Fert Laboratory (LAF) | Faculty of Sciences / UPSaclay | UPSaclay CNRS (+ Thalès) | Paolo Bortolotti | paolo.bortolotti@universite-paris-saclay.fr |
| MATEM | Innovative materials, transmission electron microscopy, advanced characterisation, microstructures, nanostructures | Laboratory of Molecular Electrochemistry (LEM) | Without constituent faculties and institutes | French Aerospace Lab (ONERA) CNRS | Mathieu Fevre | mathieu.fevre@onera.fr |
| IANeuroPsy | Biomarkers of psychiatric trajectories, animal modelling, artificial intelligence, naturalistic neuroscience | Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience (NeuroPSI) | Faculty of Sciences / UPSaclay | UPSaclay CNRS | François Rouyer | francois.rouyer@universite-paris-saclay.fr |
| MicroMod | Metabolic Genomics (MG) | Without constituent faculties and institutes | University of Evry Val d'Essonne (UEVE) CNRS CEA | Marcel Salanoubat | salanou@genoscope.cns.fr | |
| RADIANT | Radiobiology - radiotherapy - hadrontherapy - flash therapy | Signalling, radiobiology and cancer | Faculty of Sciences / UPSaclay | UPSaclay CNRS INSERM (+institut Curie) | Jose-Arturo Londono-Vallejo | jose-arturo.londono-vallejo@curie.fr |
| MODARN | RNA, epitranscriptomics, chemical modifications, eukaryotes, functional biology | Institute of Plant Sciences Paris-Saclay (IPS2) | Faculty of Sciences / UPSaclay | UPSaclay CNRS INRAE University of Evry Val d'Essonne (UEVE) (+ univ Paris Cité) | Martin Crespi | martin.crespi@universite-paris-saclay.fr |
| CHEMBIO-ARN | Genome integrity, RNA and cancer | Faculty of Sciences / UPSaclay | UPSaclay CNRS (+institut Curie) | Stephan Vagner | stephan.vagner@curie.fr | |
| TETRA | Work, environmental transition, environment, inequalities, health | PRINTEMPS (Professions, Institutions, Temporalities) | Without constituent faculties and institutes | UVSQ CNRS | Camille Peugny | camille.peugny@uvsq.fr |
| SKA-FORCE | Cosmology and the dawn of the cosmos, Formation and evolution of galaxies, Fundamental physics through compact objects, Physics of the magnetised interstellar medium, Planetology and the origins of life | Observatory of the Sciences of the Universe (OSUPS) | UPSaclay | UPSaclay CNRS | ||
| ONAGES | Climate variability; biogeochemical cycles; water and aerosol cycles and their interactions; instrumentation; atmospheric physics and chemistry | Laboratory of Climate and Environmental Sciences (LSCE) | Without constituent faculties and institutes | UVSQ CNRS CEA | Philippe Bousquet | philippe.bousquet@lsce.ipsl.fr |
| ONAGES | Climate variability; biogeochemical cycles; water and aerosol cycles and their interactions; instrumentation; atmospheric physics and chemistry | Atmospheric Space Observations Laboratory (LATMOS) | Without constituent faculties and institutes | UVSQ CNRS Sorbonne university French Space Agency (CNES) | François Ravetta | francois.ravetta@latmos.ipsl.fr |
| Evolution des matériaux du patrimoine | Analytical chemistry; heritage sciences; archaeometry, materials alteration, durability | Archaeomaterials Research Institute (IRAMAT) | UPSaclay CNRS French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap) UTBM University of Orléans | Philippe Dillmann | philippe.dillmann@cea.fr |
Candidate selection
Candidates are selected by a selection committee comprising six to ten members, most of whom are specialists in the relevant research field.
The selection committee carries out an initial review of applications, based in particular on the research and teaching project submitted.
Following this review, a list of candidates selected for interview is drawn up. Only candidates whose applications have been shortlisted by the selection committee will be invited for interview.
After these interviews, the selection committee deliberates and makes a decision based on the merits of the candidates and their suitability for the research and teaching project open for recruitment.
Once the selection process has been completed, the successful candidate may be offered a junior professor (CPJ) contract, after consultation with the relevant authorities.
How to apply?
The Decree of 22 February 2022 on the recruitment of Junior Professor Chair contracts specifies the application procedures (documents included in the application, submission platform, etc.).
- The application submission process is entirely paperless. The application must be submitted on GALAXIE, via the FIDIS module. When searching for a position, Junior Professor Chairs are distinguished from other academic staff positions by the recruitment reference ("CPJ").
- Your application must contain the duly completed CPJ* application form, including in particular:
1. a curriculum vitae
2. teaching and research activities
3. an exhaustive list of contracts and funding obtained for research activities
4. an exhaustive list of publications, books, patents and communications.
*This form must be uploaded to the "Qualifications and works" section of the document submission, when preparing the application.
Download the application form:
English version: