Faculty Position
University of California, Irvine
Environment Institute: Global Change, Energy and Sustainable Resources
The UCI Environment Institute is recruiting a faculty member at the level of Assistant (tenure-track) to Full (tenured) Professor. This position represents part of the initial allocation of eight faculty to be affiliated with the Institute and participate in its planning. Faculty will teach and maintain research labs in their primary departments within the School of Biological Sciences , School of Physical Sciences , or Henry Samueli School of Engineering. Future recruitments may involve additional Schools.
UCI seeks to build on its strengths in environmental research and develop broad, campus-wide collaborations that relate global change, energy, and sustainable resources to societal needs. This recruitment addresses the areas of interest listed below.
Global change and human impacts on biological and physical systems: e.g., biodiversity; ecosystem processes and modeling; ecophysiology; ecohydrology; coastal processes; climate change; resource management.
Energy and changes in utilization: e.g., innovative materials for generation and storage; renewables, including wave and wind; biofuels; nuclear fusion; waste management.
Sustainable resources for the near future: e.g., water availability; clean air and clean water; green building/city design; transportation; waste systems; industrial ecology; life-cycle analysis.
Applicants must have a Ph.D., plus postdoctoral experience related to the environment, global change, energy, or sustainable resources. UCI faculty teach at the undergraduate and graduate levels, maintain an externally funded research program and direct graduate research. Candidates will present a research seminar in their host department plus a campus-wide forum relating their research to issues at the interfaces of science, technology and/or society.
Applications (CV, statement of research, contact information for three references, and three publications) may be submitted through the UCI recruitment system, at: https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/apply/create/386
More information is available at: http://environment.uci.edu
Selection will begin 12 January 2009 and remain open until the position is filled. Related faculty positions are available in the Henry Samueli School of Engineering, School of Biological Sciences and School of Physical Sciences .
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