"Open Rank Professor - Department of Biological Sciences"

Description

The Department of Biological Sciences at Clemson University invites applications for 2 open rank positions in Ecology, Evolutionary, and/or Organismal Biology. We anticipate that one position will be offered at the Full or Associate Professor level with tenure, and one at the level of tenure track Assistant Professor. Clemson University, the College of Science, and the Department of Biological Sciences are committed to building a community of inclusive excellence and creating a sense of belonging, where faculty scholars are dedicated to working and teaching in a welcoming environment that empowers students to be positive change agents. For more information about the department and its programs, please visit: https://www.clemson.edu/science/academics/departments/biosci/index.html

For more information about Clemson, please visit: https://www.clemson.edu/

We expect candidates for both positions to bring innovative, high-impact research programs to Clemson while complementing the Department's research strengths. We are open to any research area in EEOB that strengthens current research in the department, including those who integrate across systems or scales while applying laboratory, field, and or computational approaches. Two research priority areas for Clemson University, the College of Science, and the Department of Biological Sciences are Biodiversity and Sustainability and Human Health, and exceptional resources exist on campus to support this research. The Clemson Experimental Forest is a unique 17,500 acre campus adjacent facility that can support large-scale, long-term experimentation and serves as a key ecological corridor for plant and animal communities of the Piedmont and Blue Ridge Mountain ecoregions of the Southeast U.S. In addition, Clemson is home to four NIH funded Centers of Excellence in Biomedical Research and Education COBRE, including one in Human Genetics and one in Eukaryotic Pathogens. We highly encourage applications from candidates who can leverage these resources to enrich their research programs, while also promoting the use of their own systems, methods, and tools to explore innovative questions in EEOB.

The Department is one of the largest on campus with 1,700 plus undergraduates and nearly 200 graduate students across B.A., B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degree programs in both Biological Sciences and Microbiology, as well as graduate degrees (M.S./Ph.D.) in Environmental Toxicology. In addition, the department offers an online, non-thesis M.S. in Biological Sciences for teachers and science educators interested in biological sciences. The successful candidates will inspire our student body by contributing to the department's teaching mission.

About the University

Clemson University is South Carolina’s public R1 land-grant University. The University has excellent research resources including the globally ranked Palmetto high-performance computing cluster, the Clemson University Genomics and Bioinformatics Facility, the Clemson University Center for Human Genetics, state-of-the-art light and electron microscopy, greenhouse facilities, a multi-user analytical laboratory, the Bob and Betsy Campbell Museum of Natural History (including a herbarium and vertebrate collection), and the on-campus South Carolina State Botanical Garden.

Qualifications

Candidates under consideration at the Assistant Professor rank should have a Ph.D. or equivalent terminal degree with an advanced background in biological sciences or a related discipline. Candidates should present evidence of productive postdoctoral research experience as demonstrated by an excellent research and peer-reviewed publication record. Strong candidates will demonstrate extramural funding or significant potential for such, as well as effectiveness in teaching undergraduate and graduate students (M.S. and Ph.D.) appropriate for the Assistant Professor level. Candidates under consideration at the Associate or Full Professor rank will have a Ph.D. and tenure or equivalent at their current institution and an excellent record and trajectory of accomplishment leading a successful academic, federally funded research program. This includes graduating doctoral students, mentoring postdoctoral fellows, effective teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels, and fostering inclusive excellence.

Application Instructions

For full consideration, apply by November 8, 2024. Review will continue until the positions are filled. The anticipated start date is August 2025. Applicants should submit the following items through Interfolio:

http://apply.interfolio.com/156307

1. Cover letter that includes a description of research and teaching interests/experiences, what draws the applicant to this position and, for the senior position, why the applicant is interested in making a move at this point in their career

2. CV including at least three references for potential contact after initial review

3. Statement of research interests and future plans (up to three pages)

4. A summary of teaching experience and philosophy as aligned with the values upheld by Clemson University (http://www.clemson.edu/ceba/) (up to two pages)

5. Up to three reprints in one PDF

For inquiries about the position, please contact Jason Fridley, Chair of the search committee (fridley@clemson.edu).