Applications for academic positions at UCLouvain are examined with the utmost attention. If you apply for one of the open positions, the committee in charge of preselection will need information on your experience, your profile, your teaching and research projects, etc. In addition, under certain conditions, the person recruited will be able to benefit from a budget allowing him/her to finance a doctoral research as soon as he/she takes up his/her position at UCLouvain; this is why we also ask you to present your research strategy and to propose a thesis project that a doctoral student could start under your supervision.

Your application must be based on this; in order to be admissible, the following are required:

1. A letter of motivation addressed to the  Rector UCLouvain (letter to be included in your electronic application file);
    
2. A detailed and up-to-date curriculum vitae ;
    
3. A complete list of publications and the abstract of 3 of your most significant recent publications;
    
4. Your research strategy:
   a) a text of approximately 3,000 characters (including spaces and references) describing the research program you intend to conduct in the next five years and
   b) a text of 8,000 characters maximum (including spaces and references) describing a doctoral thesis project aimed at hiring a doctoral student for a period of two years, renewable once*. This doctoral project must include an abstract (600 characters maximum), a presentation of the state of the question and its positioning in relation to the state of the art, a statement of the objectives and working hypotheses, as well as a description of the methodology and the significant stages in the development of the project;
    
5. Your pedagogical project: a text of approximately 3,500 characters (including spaces and references) describing the pedagogical project you wish to develop (your objectives, course and exam modalities, assignments, distance learning, active learning, etc.). You will specify the pedagogical issues that are of particular concern to you;
    
6. A copy of your final Ph.D. degree certificate**. For a foreign doctorate, we will ask you, if you are selected in the shortlist, for a copy of the doctoral thesis, or an abstract of at least 2 pages if English or French is not the language of writing;
    
7. Minimum 3 to maximum 5 letters of recommendation, to be uploaded by your referee, after you have submitted your application (see the FAQ).

In order to facilitate the work of the selection committee, please gather these different documents, except for the letters of recommendation, in a single document in PDF format.

* This thesis project will be submitted to an internal jury from the Research Council, which will select the projects to be supported for the granting of an impulse budget (financing of the first 2 years of a doctoral thesis) at the beginning of the academic year of your arrival. 

**To be eligible, your application must be supported by your doctoral degree with a thesis. If you do not have a diploma, you must be able to rely, at the very least, on the proclamation of your title of doctor with a thesis, by February 1st of the current academic year.