Assistant Professor (Open Rank)

Job Details

Job Title: Assistant Professor (Open Rank)

Location: Atlanta, Georgia

Regular/Temporary: Regular

Full/Part Time: Full-Time

Job ID: 297190

About Us

Overview

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values

Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

1. Students are our top priority.
2. We strive for excellence.
3. We thrive on diversity.
4. We celebrate collaboration.
5. We champion innovation.
6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
8. We act ethically.
9. We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

Location

Atlanta, GA

Department Information

About the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology

Founded in 1985 by combining the former School of Ceramic Engineering with the Metallurgy Program housed in the School of Chemical Engineering, MSE merged in 2010 with the School of Polymer, Textile and Fiber Engineering, established in 1897 as the Textile Engineering program, the third school at GT. Today, MSE at GT is fully integrated and unified, with diverse academic and research programs spanning all forms and classes of materials.

The School of Materials Science and Engineering is built as a holistic, innovative, and modern materials science and engineering program that has the environment, infrastructure, and culture of creativity, curiosity, entrepreneurship, innovation, and inclusion. Our research portfolio addresses a multitude of functionalities, from structural load-bearing applications to energy storage and harvesting; and electronic, photonic, and opto-electronic devices to drug delivery and mimicking nature; and developing sustainable processing approaches to machine learning and in-situ structure characterization for materials discovery. As a world leader in educating the next generation of materials scientists and engineers, MSE at GT is defining the future of our discipline through academic excellence, experiential learning, and research innovations, with the focus on envisioning, predicting, designing, and developing materials to meet tomorrow's challenges in energy, environment, health and human welfare, infrastructure, security, and transportation.

The richness of the combination of ¿science¿ and ¿engineering¿ inherent in our discipline is more obvious in MSE at Georgia Tech than perhaps at any other institution, which makes it exciting to learn, research, and innovate, while serving the technological needs of society as a whole. The MSE faculty and staff promote and value diversity, equity, and inclusion, and care about the well-being and welfare of all our students. We believe that the diverse backgrounds, ideas, experiences, perspectives, expertise, and abilities of our people are essential to enhancing the richness of our community, promoting outside-the-box thinking, emboldening an atmosphere of mutual understanding and respect, and fostering meaningful collaborations. We remain dedicated to providing a quality education, supporting creativity and research innovation, and fostering a supportive environment conducive to cultural collegiality and committed to combating social injustice.

Job Summary

The School of Materials Science and Engineering (https://www.mse.gatech.edu/) at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia invites applications for a tenured or tenure-track faculty position in materials science and engineering. Applicants will be considered at all ranks. The search focuses on candidates advancing electron microscopy techniques such as 4D-STEM, electron ptychography, and electron nanocrystallography to probe atomic-scale structure and functionality. Emphasis is on uncovering fundamental structure property relationships in complex and quantum materials. Qualified candidates must possess a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering or a closely related discipline, and a strong record of academic and research excellence. The ideal candidate will champion independent and collaborative research at the cutting edge of their field, be able to attract external funding to build strong sponsored-research activities, mentor graduate students successfully, develop and teach fundamental courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in materials science and engineering, and make positive contributions to the School, Institute, and community. Candidates are expected to demonstrate an exceptional commitment to the teaching and mentoring of students.

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values. These values include academic excellence, freedom of expression and inquiry, innovation, collaboration, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

Responsibilities

• Leading a research group.
• Publishing research in peer reviewed journals.
• Attending conferences, delivering presentations, and networking with others in the field.
• Traveling to other universities or academic settings to engage with participate in learning opportunities and gain experience.
• Developing courses and curricula, and teaching undergraduate and graduate courses.
• Assisting with student recruitment, interviews, and academic counseling sessions.
• Participating in committee, departmental, and faculty meetings, as well as other service activities.

Required Qualifications

• A Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering or a closely related discipline.

Preferred Qualifications

• Established record of published peer-reviewed articles.

Required Documents to Attach

Applicants should submit:

• Letter of application (cover letter),
• Curriculum vitae,
• Statement of research interests (4 pg. maximum),
• Description of teaching interests as well as their advising/mentoring philosophy,
• Names and contact information for at least three references.
• A statement on Tech's mission and values: In two pages or less, please outline how your professional and academic experiences have prepared you to support and apply Georgia Tech's mission and values.

Application materials should be submitted as .PDF files via https://careers.gatech.edu. Requests for information may be directed to Prof. Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena. Applications will be considered beginning April 15th, 2026, but the search will continue until the positions are filled. An earned doctorate is required by the start of the appointment, and a background check must be completed prior to beginning employment.

Contact Information

Requests for information may be directed to Prof. Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena at jpcorrea@gatech.edu.