Chemjobber C&EN Index: 7/20/09

Industrial positions (non-academic, non-governmental):
Total number of ads: 4

- Postdocs: 0
- Permanent positions: 13
- Ratio of US/non-US: 1/12
Area: 306

Week to week trend: Up, slightly.

Governmental positions (US, international):
Total number of ads: 0
- Postdocs: 0
- Permanent positions: 0
- Ratio of US/non-US: 0/0
Area: 0

Academic positions:
Total number of ads: 4
- Postdocs: 1
- Tenure-track faculty: 2

- Temporary faculty: 0
- Lecturer positions: 0
- Staff positions: 1
- Ratio of US/non-US positions: 3/1

- Area (square cm): 222
Week to week trend: Flat.

Not much (here): A big tip of the hat to Ash Stevens (looking for a director of analytical services); other than that one position (in Detroit, MI), all the rest of this week's positions are in Asia. WuXi is still looking for sea turtles, so is Roche.

Great title!: Eli Lilly has a nice ad up this week for a Senior Medicinal Chemist position in Singapore. While that's not such a big deal, the ad starts off with "The senior drug hunter leads a team of chemists to deliver high quality leads or drug candidates..." It'd be interesting to get a poll of experienced med-chem types together and see how many of them referred to themselves as "drug hunters."

Small college of the week: The University of Waterloo (Waterloo, ON, Canada, student population 26,457, SA-LUTE!) is looking for a "Canada Excellence Research Chair in Quantum Information." Good Lord, I have no idea what that means. (I think it has something to do with quantum computing.)