Description

Reporting to the department chair, the Assistant Professor position requires teaching, scholarship and service. The position is an academic 10 month tenure-track appointment, and the salary is competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Requirements

• Earned Ph.D. (or equivalent) in a field of science or engineering with research that emphasizes materials science (such as Physics or Materials Science) or a closely related field with at least 18 graduate semester hours in Physics or Materials Science, by August 1, 2026. 
• Academic background to teach courses in Materials Science (MATS) and Physics (PHYS).
• Commitment to teaching excellence in the undergraduate and graduate classroom.
• Ability to develop an externally funded research program in the area of materials science that fully engages both graduate and undergraduate students.
• Research specialization in an area of materials science (for example, solid state, semiconductor, polymeric materials, bio- or renewable materials, nanophotonic and plasmonic metamaterials).
• Willingness to support our current graduate programs as well as our future growth of graduate programs.
• Ability to work with a variety of populations.
• Effective written and spoken communication skills
• Willingness to engage with institutional student success initiatives.
• Commitment to engaging with best practice initiatives in instruction and pedagogy, mentoring, and curriculum design and development. 
• Demonstrated commitment to advancing a strong and growing research and scholarship agenda and producing research/creative activities appropriate to the discipline.  
• Participation and support of the activities and the mission of the Center for Advanced Materials Science.