Job date: 2015-09-30
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Company : Northern Arizona University Country : Role : Student
Assistant/Associate/Professor, Tenure-track, Multiple positions
Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, ArizonaCommensurate to qualifications and experience and determined by professional rank at hire.
Shortlist Add to shortlist ApplyThe Informatics and Computing Program (ICP) at Northern Arizona University (NAU) invites applications from exceptional candidates for multiple open-rank tenured and tenure-track positions at all levels to build on our strengths in health and bioinformatics and ecological and environmental informatics. These positions are research-centric with a long-term institutional commitment to ensuring low teaching loads and accompanying high expectations for scholarly productivity and extramural funding.
Exceptional candidates or coordinated group applications for highly desirable cluster hires in all areas of informatics are encouraged to apply. Specific areas of interest include:
Ecological and environmental informatics, including the application of data assimilation and computational approaches to ecohydrology, global biodiversity, earth systems science, critical zone processes, or biosphere-atmosphere interactions. Health and bioinformatics, including quantitative epidemiology, generalized linear models, comparative genomics, molecular evolution, population genetics, bioinformatics, microbial ecology, metagenomics, High Throughput Sequencing data analysis, and molecular diagnostics design.Candidates should have a Ph.D. degree in a field closely aligned to informatics and areas of interest at the time of appointment. Candidates for Assistant Professor positions should demonstrate the potential for high-quality scholarship and candidates for Associate and Professor positions are expected to have established themselves as innovative and productive scholars. Successful candidates will grow their own externally funded research programs and will have the opportunity to engage in collaborations with a diverse body of researchers in ICP, a developing School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems of which ICP will become a part of, and across Northern Arizona University. Successful candidates will also participate in supporting undergraduate and graduate curricular programs.
Minimum qualifications for the rank of Assistant Professor: Earned doctoral degree (Ph.D. or Sc.D.) conferred in a field closely aligned to informatics and areas of interest by August 22, 2016. Minimum qualifications for the rank of Associate Professor include all of the above, and: Associate Professor rank (or the equivalent), research accomplishments equivalent to this rank and teaching experience. Minimum qualifications for the rank of Professor include all of the above, and: Professor rank (or the equivalent), research accomplishments equivalent to this rank and teaching experience.
Preferred qualifications include: Demonstrated research expertise in health and bioinformatics or ecological and environmental informatics; an established record of scholarly success and promise for future scholarly excellence, as evidenced through participation and leadership in securing extramural funding and scholarly publications, as appropriate to the rank sought; demonstrated history of engaging with and leading collaborative multi- and inter-disciplinary teams, including supervision of graduate students and post-doctoral scholars, as appropriate to the rank sought; university-level teaching experience, particularly at the graduate level; excellent communication skills; experience effectively working with people from a variety of culturally diverse backgrounds.
Salary is commensurate to qualifications and experience and determined by professional rank at hire. At the Assistant Professor rank, positions are tenure-track positions. At the Associate Professor rank, tenure will be considered based on qualifications and experience. At the Professor rank, positions will be tenured and will be considered based on qualifications and experience. All positions begin August 22, 2016. Review of applications will begin on October 15, 2015 and will continue until positions are filled or closed.
Northern Arizona University is a 26,000-student institution with its main campus in Flagstaff, a four-season community of about 67,000 at the base of the majestic San Francisco Peaks. NAU’s emphasis on undergraduate education is enhanced by its graduate programs and research as well as distance learning. All faculty members are expected to promote student learning and help students achieve academic outcomes. The university is committed to a diverse and civil working and learning environment.
The Informatics and Computing Program is a dynamic research-intensive unit with diverse faculty members working in areas that span the foundations of computing as well as its application. We seek to ally computational science with engineering, the natural and social sciences, and other emerging interdisciplinary research areas, and collaborate with faculty and researchers to incorporate informatics, computing, and cyber systems as essential components of research and learning at Northern Arizona University. Our faculty’s research interests include bioinformatics, population health, remote sensing, ecological modeling, cybersecurity, wireless sensor and communication systems, cyber-physical systems, software architecture and visualization, computer graphics, model-driven design, machine learning, and wearable computing. We will offer an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Informatics and Computing with a planned launch for Fall 2016, with emphases that include Health and Bioinformatics, Ecological and Environmental Informatics, and Cyber and Software Systems.
To apply for this position, go to http://nau.edu/Human-Resources/Careers/Faculty-and-Administrator-Openings under Job ID 602210. For consideration for this position submit ONE PDF file, containing: (1) a statement of interest highlighting your particular qualifications for this position; (2) a curriculum vitae; (3) a statement of teaching and research interests, not to exceed 4 pages; and (4) names and contact information for three references.
If you have problems submitting application attachments in the form of one PDF document or questions please contact us at informatics@nau.edu. If you need assistance completing your application, there are instructions available online at http://hr.nau.edu or in person in the Human Resources Department located in Building 91 on the NAU Campus - on the corner of Beaver and DuPont Streets.
If you are an individual with a disability and need reasonable accommodation to participate in the hiring process, please contact the Affirmative Action Office at 928-523-3312/TDD - 928-523-1006 or PO Box 4083, Flagstaff AZ 86011.
Northern Arizona University requires satisfactory results for the following: a criminal background investigation, an employment history verification and a degree verification (in some cases) prior to employment. You may also be required to complete a fingerprint background check. Additionally, as an employer in the state of Arizona, NAU is required to participate in the federal E-Verify program that assists employers with verifying new employees' right to work in the United States.
Skills :
- Bioinformatics
- Biology
- Computational Biology
- Genetics
- Health Science
- Machine Learning
- Modeling
- Population Genetics
- Statistics
- Teaching
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