Position Summary
As part of a major, multi-year initiative to expand research activities in Synthetic Biology across the IU Bloomington campus, the College of Arts and Sciences and the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering invite applications for multiple tenured positions at the associate or full professor rank to begin in the Fall of 2025. Appointments will be in one or more departments, including Chemistry, Biology, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, or Intelligent System Engineering.These exciting new positions are associated with the university’s multimillion-dollar investment in biosciences, expanding life sciences research on the Bloomington campus.
We are particularly interested in researchers working in areas of synthetic biology who can synergize with existing research strengths in the departments noted above. Representative topics of interest could include enzyme engineering, biocatalysis, metabolic engineering, biosensing and diagnostics, genome design, and cellular design and engineering. New approaches that incorporate evolution, selection methods, machine learning, and artificial intelligence are also of interest, as are methods to develop novel biological systems, including microbes, microbiomes, synthetic consortia, and plants, for synthetic biology. We encourage applications from scholars who apply interdisciplinary perspectives across a variety of these domains.
Responsibilities: Candidates are expected to sustain an active, internationally recognized, externally funded research program, to engage undergraduate and graduate students through effective teaching, and to participate in service to the university and the profession. Candidates should be able to work effectively in a team environment. To advance scholarly innovation and excellence, we especially welcome candidates who will broadly increase the university’s diversity, equity, and inclusion through any of the following: their lived experience, research, teaching, and/or mentoring.
Basic Qualifications
Qualifications: Applicants should possess a PhD in Chemistry, Biology, Chemical Biology, Synthetic Biology, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Biological Engineering, or Informatics (or a related field) and be committed to excellence in scholarship and teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Department Contact for Questions
All queries about the position or the application procedures may be addressed to faculty2@indiana.edu.
Additional Qualifications
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