Research Assistant or Postdoc Recruitment（研究助理、博士后招聘）

Research Assistant (RA) or Postdoc positions for highly motivated and creative people are available in the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS).  Applicants who are interested in bioinformatics and/or biostatistics may send the following information by email to douglaszhang@umac.mo: curriculum vitae, relevant certificates and transcript, research interest proposal and contact information of at least two referees, etc. The students who will obtain (or have obtained) a Master Degree in Physics (especially in system physics), Mathematics, Biology or Computer Science are strongly encouraged to apply. RA and Postdoc in FHS receive very competitive salary.

Ph.D. Student Recruitment（博士研究生招生）

Ph.D. positions for highly motivated and creative students are available in the Faculty (FHS).  FHS has strong connections to overseas universities and institutions, our Ph.D. students may have training opportunity in other top-tier research institutes, including laboratories of Nobel laureates. For more details, please visit the website of the Graduate School (http://www.umac.mo/grs/en/) of University of Macau or contact fhs.enquiry@umac.mo.

Applicants who are interested in bioinformatics and/or biostatistics may send the following information by email to douglaszhang@umac.mo by February 16, 2017 (the sooner, the better): curriculum vitae, relevant certificates and transcript, research interest proposal and contact information of at least two referees, etc. The students who will obtain (or have obtained) a Bachelor Degree or Master Degree in Physics (especially in system physics), Mathematics, Biology or Computer Science and get a score of 430 or higher in CET6 by July 2017 are strongly encouraged to apply.

Post-graduate Assistantship

All full-time Ph.D. students in the Faculty receive post-graduate assistantship of MOP12500/month, which will be increased to MOP14000/month after passing the qualifying examination and thesis proposal assessment.

Student Housing

Postgraduate House (PGH) consists of 4 buildings (S1, S2, S3 and S4), offering more than 2,600 bed spaces mainly to UM non-local students. All the rooms in the PGH are fully furnished, internet-connected, air-conditioned and with bathrooms, excluding personal necessities and beddings.

The University

The University of Macau (UM) was founded in 1981. Through 34 years of development, UM has become a leading university in Macao, with marked progress in teaching, research, and community service. UM is the only public comprehensive university in Macao and is one of the world’s most international universities.

张晓华教授简介：

Dr. Xiaohua Zhang is a professor in University of Macau (UM), a fellow in the American Statistical Association (ASA Fellow) and an elected member of International Statistical Institute (ISI Elected Member). He got his Ph.D. in statistics from Carnegie-Mellon University, PA, USA, an MS in Genetics and a BS in Biology from Beijing Normal University. Before joining UM in 2016, Dr. Zhang was a Senior Principal Scientist in Merck Research Laboratories, West Point, USA and had worked there for more than 14 years, had established/managed (as a director) a biostatistics team supporting projects in drug discovery, clinical trials and clinical biomarkers in China in 2012 – 2014 and mentored junior staff and summer interns in both USA and China.

He is the vice chairperson of Specialty Committee of Reproductive Medicine of World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies (世界中医药学会联合会生殖医学专业委员会副会长), and is the chairperson of Biopharmaceutical Section and an executive committee member for Functional Genomics and System Biology Branch, Chinese Society for Cell Biology (中国细胞生物学会功能基因组信息与系统分常务理事、生物医药专家研究组长 ).