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Notes on applying to CS faculty positions in France
These are a few notes regarding the application to CS faculty positions in France, based on my experience applying during the academic year 2021–2022. Please note:
- this is still valid in 2024 but may get outdated later on,
- this concerns early-career positions, there are also full professor or research director positions.
Types of position
There are currently two kinds of faculty positions in France1
My current approach to low-carbon research
I have signed the TCS4F pledge for sustainable research in (theoretical) computer science. Below are some specific actions I am taking.
Flight-free business travel
In particular, I have not taken a plane to attend conferences since Fall 2019. Trains usually emit at least an order of magnitude less CO2 than airplanes. I try to attend only meaningful events (specialized workshops, conferences where I present some work) and make the most of those events.
A Beamer snippet for remote presentations
Back in June 2020 when I was preparing my first virtual presentation, I tried leaving the top-right corner of my slides free to include a video of myself in the recordings. Checking that the content of each frame was not overlapping with the webcam was slowing me down, as I needed to open OBS each time to perform as visual check. To avoid the OBS part, I created a small macro that draws a filled rectangle at the webcam’s location in the slides: