Two full-time research and teaching assistant position in mathematics - Faculty of sciences

Reference : 2026/S142

Application deadline : 19/06/2026 12:00 PM

Starting date : 01/10/2026

Job Description

The duties of an assistant are structured around three areas: research, teaching, and service to the community.

Research activities are mainly devoted to completing a doctoral thesis in one of the research areas of the Department of Mathematics. The candidate must have contacted one of the Department’s professors beforehand regarding this research and must submit a thesis project agreed upon with that person.

Teaching duties include supervising exercise sessions and projects for various mathematics courses, up to 300 hours per year, as well as other pedagogical tasks such as preparing, invigilating, and grading examinations.

Finally, the assistant may occasionally be asked to contribute to community service activities, in particular by participating in representative bodies and in mathematical outreach activities within the Experimentarium of Mathematics and Computer Science.

Diplomas                                       

Holder of a 120-credit Master’s degree in Mathematical Sciences, Statistics, Actuarial Sciences, or a qualification recognized as equivalent, and meeting the admission requirements for doctoral studies.

Applications from persons already holding a doctorate will not be considered.

Required skills

• High scientific level in mathematics.

• Excellent teaching skills.

• Good ability to integrate into the teaching team.

• Excellent command of French; basic knowledge of English.

Courses covered

Exercise sessions and personal assignments, including the preparation, invigilation, and correction of examinations and other assignments, in mathematics at undergraduate and master’s level.

Interested ?

For more information, please contact Denis Bonheure, chair of the Commission Assistants du Département de Mathématique (email: [email protected]).

Your application will consist of a Curriculum Vitae(if you wish, a standard CV can be downloaded from the website: https: //www.ulb.be/fr/documents-officiels/emplois-academiques-et-scientifiques-cv-type) and a document completed using the template available at this URL address https://www.ulb.be/fr/documents-officiels/4e-applic-form-assistant-docx. 

This template structures your application by including the following elements:

• an application letter 
• a note on the applicant’s PhD research project (4 pages)
• two letters of reference

Incomplete applications or applications that do not use the template provided will not be examined by the selection committee.

Where to go to apply?

Click here: https://jobs.ulb.be/job-invite/2000/?isInternalUser=true 

For any connection problems or questions about our application, consult our FAQ : e-recrut-mode-d-emploi-candidat-en-_1734942996246-pdf

N.B.: SAP complies with European and U.S. regulations and, as a result, does not allow access to its application from the following countries/regions: Crimea, Sevastopol, the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) / Luhansk People’s Republic (LNR), areas not controlled by the Ukrainian government in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Russia, and Belarus. 

Therefore, candidates applying from these countries – and only from these countries – can submit their CV and application to this address: [email protected]

Equal opportunities policy

ULB's personnel management policy is geared towards diversity and equal opportunities.

We recruit candidates on the basis of their skills, irrespective of age, gender, sexual orientation, origin, nationality, beliefs, disability, etc.

Would you like to be provided with reasonable accommodation in the selection procedure because of a disability, disorder, or illness?  Please contact Marie Botty, the person in charge of diversity aspects for the academic and scientific staff ([email protected]). Be assured of the confidentiality of this information.

More details on the ULB gender and diversity policy are available at https://www.ulb.be/en/about-ulb/gender-equality-at-ulb. 

You will find all the regulations relating to research careers on our site at http://www.ulb.ac.be/emploi/academique.html.