回複：but how could you explain this

我的理解是這個隻能由你們學校出麵負責解釋。比如說找一個正式的文件，裏麵帶有對research faculty 職位的說明。很多學校的PRS HANDBOOK一般都有這樣的字樣：the four categories of research faculty, research investigator, assis. research sicentist, associate research scientist ans research scicentist are considered parrallel to the four categories of tenure-tracked instructional faculty....their duty are...the criteria for these positions are....

如果這個都不行，那恐怕沒戲了。

還有，你的職稱是research scientist? 這個職稱是很高的，相當於full professor。