Announces Open Competition for Scientific Positions

The Scientific Council of the Vladimir Chavchanidze Institute of Cybernetics of the Georgian Technical University announces an open competition for the following scientific positions:

• Department of Computing Equipment Elements and Nanomaterials, Researcher – 1.0 staff unit

• Energy Efficient Technologies Laboratory, Senior Researcher – 1.0 staff unit, Researcher – 1.0 staff unit

Applications will be accepted from March 19th to March 23rd, 2026, inclusive, from 10:00 a.m. to 05:00 p.m., at the address: Tbilisi, Zurab Anjaparidze First Lane No. 6 (formerly Sandro Euli Street), Vladimir Chavchanidze Institute of Cybernetics, first floor, room No. 130, contact person, Giorgi Mumladze, Tel.: 598 42 98 33.

The competition commission will hold a competition for the vacant positions of Chief Scientist, Senior Scientist and Research Fellow on March 25th, 2026. The initial results of the competition will be published no later than March 25th, 2026, by the competition commission in a visible place and on the institute’s website.

Applications/complaints regarding violations of the competition rules will be accepted by the Scientific Council/Competition Commission until March 30th, 2026.

Additional information to participate in the competition (contestant’s questionnaire and application, time and place of the competition) will be published on the institute’s website.

II. Competition Conditions

Main conditions of the competition:

a) A person who has a PhD or an equivalent academic degree can hold the position of a senior researcher;

b) A person who has a Master’s or an equivalent academic degree can hold the position of a researcher.

A person will be elected to all of the listed scientific positions for a term of 5 years.

A person wishing to participate in the competition must personally (or through a representative) submit:

a) a duly completed and signed application and questionnaire (the forms will be published on the Institute’s website, as well as documentation confirming the information presented in them: diploma, certificate, deeds, etc. (original and copy);

b) a document confirming the scientific/academic degree (original and copy);

c) Document(s) confirming scientific research experience (experience) certified by the seal of the relevant organization/institution;

d) List of scientific and educational-methodical works, certified by the signature and seal of a competent person of the relevant institution/organization or its structural unit (if any);

e) Identity card (original and photocopy);

f) 2 photographs 3X4;

g) Certificate of conviction for committing a crime against sexual freedom and inviolability and certificate of deprivation of rights.

Note: A person who has already submitted the above certificates to the University’s Human Resources Management and Records Service is exempt from submitting the certificates.

III. Rules for conducting the competition

• The competition will be held according to the Law of Georgia “On Higher Education”, the University Charter and the “Rules for Hiring Scientific Personnel of the Vladimir Chavchanidze Institute of Cybernetics”, which the contestants will familiarize themselves with at the Scientific Council/Competition Commission, on the University and the Institute’s the websites.

• The Scientific Council/Competition Commission will consider: the correspondence of the contestant’s qualifications and competence to the competitive position, including scientific research, practical and other activities, achievements, qualifications, experience and merits relevant to the profile of the competitive position; as well as (by decision of the Scientific Council/Competition Commission), the results of the interview conducted with the contestant(s).

• The results of the competition can be appealed in court, in accordance with the applicable legislation.