"Assistant Professor, Environmental Engineering"

About the Department

There are 11 full-time faculty with primary appointments in Environmental Engineering (ENVE), ~50 students in ENVE’s well-established graduate program of 50+ years, and about 150 undergraduate students in our growing ABET-accredited undergraduate program that was inaugurated in 2012. The department’s research expenditure exceeded $6.2 million in fiscal year 2025 with roughly 50% from the ENVE program. In addition to core ABET requirements, the program supports four senior elective tracks for undergraduates linked to our graduate research focus areas of Hydrosystems, Water Quality, Air Quality and Sustainability.

The University of Cincinnati (UC) is a thriving urban research institution located in the heart of Cincinnati, Ohio, with approximately 54,000 students and approximately 10,000 professors and staff. The University was recently listed by Forbes Magazine among the nation’s most beautiful campuses, with internationally acclaimed facilities for teaching and research in a number of disciplines, including medicine, music, law, design and engineering. The College of Engineering and Applied Science at UC pioneered the cooperative education experience for engineers in 1906 and continues to maintain the co-op program and its excellent relations with the industrial sector, ranking 1st among public universities in this category in US News & World Report.

Job Overview

The University of Cincinnati (UC) Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering (ChEE) invites applications for an environmental engineering tenure-track Assistant Professor position. The appointment is expected to begin August 15, 2026. ChEE seeks candidates with research focus areas within the field of environmental engineering, including but not limited to the following:

• Water Quality and Resource Recovery – treatment of and resource recovery from produced waters associated with industrial manufacturing, refining, mining and municipal wastewater, etc.; biofilm interactions with potable and wastewater infrastructure; wastewater recycling with critical mineral recovery (i.e. Rare Earth Elements (REE) from brines, mining waters and other industrial sources).
• Solid Waste Management and recycling – including recycling infrastructure, anaerobic digestion and composting systems to minimize environmental impact and emerging contaminants in soil amendments and other recovered materials while maximizing resource recovery from these solid waste sources (i.e. enzymatic recycling of plastics).

Essential Functions

• Duties for this position include research, teaching, and service;
• Conducting research in environmental engineering related to their research focus area, as noted above;
• Building and leading extramurally funded research programs;
• Building research collaborations within the department, throughout the campus and with government agencies and industry;
• Teaching core undergraduate courses in the environmental engineering curriculum as well as graduate level courses related to their research focus area, as noted above, and
• Providing service to the profession and university, including but not limited to serving as a journal reviewer and editor and/or as a member of professional organizations or committees.

Minimum Requirements

Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering or a closely related field prior to effective date of appointment.

Application Process Information

Candidates should provide the following in their application package:

• Statement of interest, teaching and research interests, description of research goals and how the candidate’s expertise would successfully integrate with the department’s and university’s strengths;
• Current Curriculum Vitae;
• Up to three (3) representative original research publications (if applicable);
• Full contact information for at least four references; and
• A brief abstract for a potential research seminar.

Review of applications will begin on December 8, 2025, and continue until the position is filled. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications. Submit your application materials to: http://jobs.uc.edu and apply to REQ# 99952.