"Assistant Professor - Biological Basis of Behavior - Department of Psychology"

Position Overview

Position title: Assistant Professor

Salary range: The current salary range for this position is $80,800-$128,700 (9-month academic year salary), however, off-scale salary and other components of pay, which would yield compensation that is higher than this range, are offered to meet competitive conditions.

Anticipated start: July 1, 2026

Application Window

Open date: August 7, 2025

Next review date: Monday, Sep 8, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time). Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee.

Final date: Monday, Sep 8, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time). Applications will continue to be accepted until this date.

Position Description

The Department of Psychology at The University of California, Berkeley seeks to appoint a new tenure-track Assistant Professor studying the Biological Basis of Behavior. We welcome applications from researchers who study biology and behavior with interests in endocrinological, ethological, physiological, genetic/epigenetic, neurobiological, or pharmacological approaches. These methods may be applied to the study of human participants, or non-human animals in the wild, field-station sites, or domestic settings.

In addition to a strong research program, the position involves commitment to teaching biological/physiological approaches to psychology at the undergraduate and graduate level.

Please note that this position cannot support on-campus laboratory animal housing or extensive wet lab space.

The Department of Psychology includes 34 active faculty and 26 emeriti members with thriving labs addressing basic and translational research problems across six sub-area specialties: Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience, Clinical Science, Cognition, Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental, and Social-Personality Psychology. Further support is provided by the affiliation of our faculty with University research units, including the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and the Institute of Human Development and through faculty collaborations with researchers across the UC Berkeley campus and other institutions in the San Francisco Bay Area. Psychology has over 600 undergraduate majors and Department courses serve approximately 4000 students each semester.

The department is committed to addressing the family needs of faculty, including dual career couples and single parents. We are also interested in candidates who have had non-traditional career paths or who have taken time off for family reasons, or who have achieved excellence in careers outside academia.

Department: https://psychology.berkeley.edu/

Qualifications

Basic qualifications (required at time of application): Ph.D. or equivalent international degree, or enrolled in Ph.D. or equivalent international degree-granting program at the time of application.

Preferred qualifications: Postdoctoral experience is preferred.

Application Requirements

Document requirements: Curriculum Vitae, Statement of Research, Statement of Teaching and Mentoring, Statement of Service, Sample Publication 1, Sample Publication 2, Sample Publication 3, Facility and Equipment Need, Authorization to Release Information Form.

Reference requirements: 3 letters of reference required.