South China University of Technology (SCUT) is located in Guangzhou, a core city of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and a forefront of China's reform and opening-up. As a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education, its campuses include the Wushan Campus, University Town Campus, and Guangzhou International Campus. SCUT was honored as one of the inaugural winners of the National Civilized Campus award. The university's educational heritage is long and distinguished, traceable to the founding of Guangdong Provincial First A-Grade Industrial School in 1918. It was formally established during the national higher education restructuring in 1952, becoming one of China's four major engineering colleges. SCUT became a national key university in 1960, entered the 211 Project in 1995, joined the 985 Project in 2001, and was included in the Double First-Class Initiative as a Category A university in 2017. In 2023, it ranked among the top 150 in the ShanghaiRanking's Academic Ranking of World Universities.

The Research Center for Indian Ocean Island Countries (RCIOIC) at SCUT was established in 2017 as a Ministry of Education approved and registered center for country and area studies. The center aims to serve major national strategic needs, fulfilling functions in academic research, advisory services, talent cultivation, and international exchange. It began enrolling master's students in country and area studies in 2018, and doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers in country and area studies in 2022.

Since its establishment, the center has secured over 50 research projects, including major projects of the National Social Science Fund, major research projects in philosophy and social sciences of the Ministry of Education, general projects of the National Social Science Fund, country and area studies projects of the Ministry of Education, and projects of the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese. It has submitted nearly 100 policy advisory reports to central ministries, provincial, and municipal departments. The center has published over 50 papers in authoritative domestic and international journals such as SSCI and CSSCI, as well as numerous theoretical articles in significant newspapers like People's Daily and Guangming Daily. In 2020, the center was rated as a Type I Key Base by the Ministry of Education, entering the sequence of high-level country and area research units in Chinese universities. In the same year, it was successfully selected as a source think tank in the CTTI (Chinese Think Tank Index).

To further advance country and area studies, serve national strategies and local socio-economic development, and promote SCUT's Double First-Class construction, we are now recruiting outstanding postdoctoral researchers from home and abroad. The specific recruitment requirements are as follows:

I. Postdoctoral Recruitment Requirements

Comply with laws and regulations, have no record of disciplinary violations, possess a passion for higher education, be in good physical and mental health, exhibit good character and professional ethics, and generally be under 35 years of age.

Have obtained a doctoral degree within the last three years, or be a recent doctoral graduate who has passed the doctoral dissertation defense.

Research areas include, but are not limited to, regional and country studies, international relations, international politics, world history, and overseas Chinese studies.

Engage in full-time postdoctoral research at the university.

II. Benefits and Compensation

Offer competitive remuneration (up to 500,000 RMB per year pre-tax). Additionally, the university encourages schools and collaborating supervisors to provide additional performance-based incentives.

Enjoy the university's public healthcare benefits, with social insurance and housing provident fund contributions made according to standards for equivalent personnel.

Have access to postdoctoral apartments or receive a housing rental subsidy.

Children are eligible to attend the university's high-quality affiliated kindergarten and experimental school.

After 18 months in the position or within one year of completing the postdoctoral term, eligibility to apply for the title of Associate Research Fellow (Postdoctoral).

Postdoctoral researchers with outstanding performance evaluations may apply for faculty positions at the university. Priority consideration will be given to those who have obtained programs such as the Postdoctoral Innovative Talents Support Program (Boxin Plan) or the Postdoctoral Program for Introducing Overseas Talents, or those with exceptionally outstanding performance.

III. Application Process

Applicants should send their application materials to the center's email: rcioic@scut.edu.cn. Application materials include: the South China University of Technology Postdoctoral Position Application Form (downloadable from the SCUT Human Resources website at: http://www2.scut.edu.cn/hr/) and scanned copies of various supporting documents. Please use Name - Postdoctoral as the email subject.

The center will conduct an evaluation and submit the application to the university for approval. Upon approval (approximately one month), the university will notify the applicant to proceed with the admission procedures.

For the 2024 Postdoctoral Recruitment Announcement of South China University of Technology, please click the link: https://www2.scut.edu.cn/hr/2024/0222/c4460a534603/page.htm

IV. Contact Us

Contact Persons: Teacher Zhu, Teacher Peng

Telephone: 020-87112662

Email: rcioic@scut.edu.cn