Simons Empire Faculty Fellow - Biological Sciences (Assistant Professor)

Job Description

The Department of Biological Sciences within the College of Arts and Sciences at the University at Albany invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position--a Simons Empire Faculty Fellow-- at the rank of Assistant Professor in Quantitative Systems Neuroscience. The candidate will pursue excellence in research, teaching, and service at a Carnegie R1 institution that serves a broad community and mentors the next generation of scientists.

Primary Responsibilities

• Research: Scholarship and the creation of new knowledge through scholarly or creative activities. Conducting innovative research and publishing in peer-reviewed journals, including presenting research at professional meetings and conferences and securing external funding to support programmatic research.
• Teaching: Educating students, mentoring them, and fostering their intellectual development, which includes teaching undergraduate and graduate courses and course preparation and development.
• Service: Contributing to the governance and functioning of the university, college, and department including participating in admissions, advising, and mentoring graduate students and chairing and serving on doctoral dissertation committees.

Job Requirements

Successful candidates for a tenure-track faculty position in Quantitative Systems Neuroscience must have a strong foundation in applying quantitative methodologies to systems neuroscience or related fields. Successful applicants will develop an active, extramurally funded research program with a focus on understanding neural computations and the dynamics of neural population activity.