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Information for students (internal use only) updated. [Application guidelines for applicants for RA employment worth 200,000 yen per month in 2022]. ※Feb.8 closed

Guidelines for applicants for employment as research assistants worth 200,000 yen per month in 2022

 ※Feb.8 closed

  The Graduate School of Advanced Photonics and Electronic Device Science will hire one Research Assistant (RA) worth 200,000 yen per month for the fiscal year 2022 for those who have applied for a JSPS Research Fellowship (DC1) but have not been selected. If you wish to be hired as an RA worth 200,000 yen per month, please complete the following procedures.

【Recruitment period】
January 26, 2022 (Wed.) – February 8, 2022 (Tue.) 17:00

【RA employment period】
April 2022 – March 2023

【Applicants】
 Applicants must be currently enrolled in a doctoral course or planning to enter a doctoral course in April 2022 and have applied for a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship (DC1), but were not selected for FY2022.
 In addition, those who will be employed as an Encouraged Researcher (hereinafter referred to as “Encouraged Researcher”) under the “Kyoto University Graduate School Education Support Organization Program”, a project to support challenging research programs for next-generation researchers, in April 2022 are also eligible to apply. However, if you are selected as an RA, you will have to resign your position as an Encouraged Researcher, which is equivalent to 200,000 yen per month, so we do not recommend that you apply.

【Documents to be submitted】
Application form for JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship (DC1), letter of evaluation result (including rejection letter), and list of achievements (achievements since the time of application for DC1)

Application form

【Notification of Results】
 The applicant will be notified directly by February 28, 2022.

【Remarks】
 Those who are not selected as RAs worth 200,000 yen per month or who do not apply* will be hired as RAs worth 100,000 yen per month*. For those who have been hired as RAs by Kyoto University or their graduate school, or those who have been selected for the Advanced Quantum Technology Fellowship for Future Creation (Quantum Fellowship), support from these fellowships will be included (not all support from both fellowships will be available).  For those who have been selected for DC1 or DC2, those who have received a monthly stipend of 120,000 yen or more, or those who have received a Japanese Government Scholarship, the monthly stipend is equivalent to 20,000 yen.
 Those who are employed as DC1 or DC2, those who receive a monthly stipend of 120,000 yen or more, and government-sponsored international students will receive employment equivalent to 20,000 yen per month*. The amount is subject to change.
 The amount is subject to change.