Purdue University: Where the Sciences Coalesce

Purdue University’s College of Science, as part of a University-wide initiative to target compelling national research priorities that require insights and contributions from multiple disciplines, has embarked on adding new multidisciplinary faculty positions. The initial seven "COALESCE" priorities listed above have been the focus of multidisciplinary hiring for the past four years. Our current planning has resulted in a reformulation to the following six general areas, and we are seeking applicants with research and teaching excellence in these areas:

• Climate Change
  • Aerosols:
             http://www.polsci.purdue.edu/Positions/position2.html 
• Ecological Impacts:

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• Policy and Science:

  http://www.polsci.purdue.edu/Positions/index.html

• Computational Science
  • Center for Computational and Applied Mathematics:
             http://www.math.purdue.edu/jobs/faculty/
• High Performance Computing:

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• Energy
• Biofuels Microbiologist:

  http://www.bio.purdue.edu/news/positions.htm

Life Sciences
• Cytoskeleton:

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• Drug Discovery:

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• Nanoscience:

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• Science of Information and Massive Data
  • Social and Behavioral Statistics:
             http://www.stat.purdue.edu/hiring/

• Science Education
  • Mathematics Education:
             http://www.math.purdue.edu/jobs/faculty/

The hires in these areas will augment additional hires being made in the core disciplines within the seven departments in the College of Science and elsewhere at Purdue. All hires in the College of Science will have a departmental home, but hires may be joint between departments or other schools. Faculty will have the opportunity to participate in Discovery Park, which fosters an innovative multidisciplinary environment for discovery and learning. The University will also undertake multimillion-dollar investments in multidisciplinary facilities and initiatives for the sciences.

Faculty Searches

The Purdue University College of Science invites applications for over 30 exciting faculty opportunities, including College-wide multidisciplinary faculty searches and department-conducted faculty searches. The searches are listed below, organized by department.

In the case of a multidisciplinary faculty search, there may be several possible departmental homes; the home department will be dependant upon the particular faculty candidate who is chosen. Alternatively, the faculty appointment could be a joint appointment involving two Science departments, with one of them designated as home department. In such cases, the search position is listed multiple times, once for each potential home department, and is marked with an asterisk. Joint appointments with departments outside the College of Science are also possible.

Faculty searches will be posted as committees are formed; a partial list appears below. Please check back regularly to see available faculty searches.

Department of Biological Sciences

• Experimental Biological Physics:

• Cancer Cell Biology:

           http://www.biology.purdue.edu/news/positions.htm

• Evolutionary Ecology :

           http://www.bio.purdue.edu/news/positions.htm

• Molecular Evolution:

           http://www.biology.purdue.edu/news/positions.htm

• Microbiologist in Biofuels Research:

Department of Chemistry

• Inorganic Chemistry:

           http://www.chem.purdue.edu/news/facultypositions.asp

• Theoretical Chemistry:

Department of Computer Science

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

          Applications for Earth and Atmospheric Sciences positions will be accepted at the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences' website.

Department of Mathematics

Department of Physics

• Experimental Biological Physics:

           http://www.physics.purdue.edu/news/positions.shtml#biophys

• Experimental Condensed Matter Physics:

           http://www.physics.purdue.edu/news/positions.shtml#condensed

• Accelerator Mass Spectrometry:

Department of Statistics

• Statistics and Probability:

           http://www.stat.purdue.edu/hiring

• Social and Behavioral Statistics:

           http://www.stat.purdue.edu/hiring/

Related Searches are also taking place in other colleges at Purdue, especially involving

• Agriculture
• Engineering
• Education
• Liberal Arts
• Pharmacy

Purdue University is an Equal Opportunity/Equal Access/Affirmative Action employer and is committed to building a diverse faculty of excellence.